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The application procedure for this year's 5th Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy has been closed on June 1st. We have received more then 170 applications. Our selection team is currently in the process of choosing this year's PYPA participants. All those who have applied will be noticed about the selection procedure on June 11th. 

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  • Corruption

    A phenomenon typical among the locals (See). The internationals tend to condemn it pointedly and are involved in it only sporadically and inadvertently but always with the best intentions. Corruption differs from a project (See) in that it has a functional infrastructure (See) and very tangible results (See) often decorated with so-called concrete (or plaster) accessories in the form of lions, swans, angels, pseudo-Doric-Ionic-Corinthian silver-plated columns, etc.

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.