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<\/p>\nHelsinki Committee for Human Rights in Republika Srpska and Center for Equitable Regional Development \u2013 CenTriR, in the period from March 7-9, 2014, organized a seminar at Zlatibor for high school students from eight border municipalities and cities in Bosnia-Herzegovina.<\/p>\n
The aim of the seminar in Zlatibor was to provide the group of 32 high school students from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia with the chance to expand the knowledge and skills acquired during the first seminar organized in Srebrenica within the project “Youth – Most Important Driving Engine of our Region”.\u00a0 During the previous seminar in Srebreinica,\u00a0 high schools students\u00a0 from Gora\u017ede, Fo\u010da, Vi\u0161egrad, Srebrenica, Prijepolje, Nova Varo\u0161, \u010cajetina and U\u017eice were taught about human rights, the rights of national minorities and mechanisms for their protection, the concepts of interculturalism and multiculturalism, stereotypes and prejudice, non-violent communication and peaceful conflict resolution.<\/p>\n
During the seminar organized at\u00a0Zlatibor\u00a0the participants\u00a0discussed\u00a0youth policies, activism and\u00a0volunteerism,\u00a0in order to\u00a0define\u00a0the actual\u00a0problems\u00a0in their local communities\u00a0and to\u00a0encourage others to be active in civil society. With the support of lecturers and\u00a0a\u00a0moderator a special\u00a0attention was paid to\u00a0the preparation\u00a0of local action\u00a0plans\u00a0which\u00a0the participants of the seminar will implement\u00a0in their local\u00a0communities in 2014.\u00a0The\u00a0action plans which were created according to the previously identified problems in the involved local communities will be realized in cooperation with Youth Offices\/Commissions and local authorities from respective local communities.<\/p>\n
The funding\u00a0for the project\u00a0was secured by the\u00a0European Union under the\u00a0IPA\u00a0Cross-border Programme\u00a0Serbia\u00a0–\u00a0Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n
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