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Opening of the 5th Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy

The 5th Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy (PYPA) will be opened on Monday, 23rd July 2012 at 9:30am in the Franciscan Student Dormitory. Organizers of the PYPA, Peace Academy Foundation's staff will be present at the opening as well as this year's course instructors: Tonči Kuzmanić, course instructors of "Politics, Power and (In)Equalities; Svjetlana Nedimović, course instructor of "Role of Historical Truth in the Conflict Transformation"; and Jayne Docherty, course instructor of "Strategic Peacebuilding".

At the same plac, but on Thursday 26th July 2012, from 4:00 to 6:30 pm, a joint lecture and discussion open for broader public will be held on the topic "Socially Engaged Art and Peacebuilding". Guest speakers at the lecture and discussion are: Đorđe Balmazović, artist from Belgrade, Adela Jušić, artist from Sarajevo, and Husein Oručević, artist from Mostar. The moderator of the discussion is Samra Dizdarević.

We invite you to be present at both of the abovementioned two events.

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    Eng. Human relation building. One, and very often, the only secure result (See) of an activity (See). Includes a whole string of communication techniques from telling (dirty) jokes, through “ drunken philosophizing” on the injustice in the world to  sexual intercourse in all variations (literary and/or in a figurative sense). It is justified by the fact that there is no peace unless people “normally” intercourse. A kernel of future corruption (See). When thus-established corruption “gets on its feet”, a project (See) is initiated to combat it. Translator's note: Direct translation of the phrase „Human relations building“ into BSC language.

from Ubleha for Idiots – An Absolutely non useful Guide for Civil Society Building and Project management for Locals and Internationals in BiH and Beyond by Nebojša Šavija-Valha and Ranko Milanovic-Blank, ALBUM No. 20, 2004, Sarajevo, translated by Marina Vasilj.