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peacebuilding through educationThis policy brief focuses on a handful of initiatives seeking to integrate peace into the formal education system, including ministries of education, teacher training programs, and school policies. These initiatives operate on a relatively small scale, often reaching individual schools or teachers rather than the entire system, but they provide critical insights into how peace education is understood and institutionalized in post-war societies.

Drawing on theoretical literature on peace education and interviews with leaders of seven peace education initiative, this policy brief addresses three central points:

  1. The potential of education as a tool for peacebuilding while highlighting the structural and political barriers that constrain its effectiveness in BiH.
  2. The strategies and values of ongoing peace education initiatives, including how they navigate fragmented governance and political resistance.
  3. Concrete recommendations for practitioners and policymakers to strengthen the institutionalization and impact of peace education in postwar contexts.

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  • Constituent peoples

    The best known are those in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They came into existence before or after the amoeba and immediately afterwards were nation building. They have long suffered under the various totalitarian regimes (See) until they finally took the road of transition (See), In addition to the English language (See) they also have their mother languages (See) but they still do not know them well enough. They differ terribly between themselves but it is difficult to notice and define the difference. In all wars they bravely stood on the side of justice and the winners.

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.