Bosnie-Herzégovine

PCRC is working to bridge divides through bringing people together, giving them the space to speak freely and openly about their current issues and problems, and educating them on how to take an active role in instigating change within their local communities.
This work is focused around three main themes:
Youth and reconciliation – illuminating overlooked, positive narratives of interethnic and intercultural cooperation from the past and utilizing them as models of pro-social behavior and catalysts for social change towards other ethnic groups and minorities in the present and future.
Media freedom – challenging the prevalence of skewed media reporting and negative stereotypes within Bosnia’s mainstream media through promoting the merits of independent media, increasing media literacy levels and providing youth with a space free from censorship to share their concerns and ideas.
Gender and peacebuilding – increasing the capacity of women working in the field of gender rights to influence positive social change and peace, with a specific focus on enabling victims of wartime sexual violence address the cultures of impunity and stigmatisation in BiH.
Throughout this work, PCRC specializes in using multimedia to engage, educate and create awareness target groups. Film and photography are not only powerful artistic expressions that can create lasting images in the eye of the beholder, but can also carry important messages and help people visualize and relate to complex issues, characters and situations. As well as using these tools to inspire change in local schools and public squares, PCRC has also screened its Ordinary Heroes documentary series and the standalone documentary Uspomene 677 to over 500,000 viewers across the region in partnership with Al Jazeera Balkans.
Key projects implemented in 2014-2015 include:
Ordinary Heroes
Ordinary Heroes is designed to foster social healing, reconciliation and forgiveness among divided groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This project utilizes photography, film, and educational youth workshops to tell the stories of four post-conflict regions -- Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Rwanda, Cambodia, and post-Holocaust Europe. During periods of moral collapse and genocide existed ordinary people who exhibited incredible courage and compassion to help others at their own risk. Their stories of rescue illustrate the power that love, self-sacrifice, and moral courage have in resisting overwhelming tides of prejudice and violence. PCRC aims to use these narratives as a model for pro-social behavior and a tool to build a social ethic that counters communal violence and promotes healing and forgiveness in divided societies.
Balkan Diskurs
Balkan Diskurs is an independent multimedia outlet that provides young citizen journalists, activists and academics in the Western Balkans with a space free from censorship to publish their opinions, analyses and impressions of the region in which they live. In a media culture dominated by political elites and which seeks to divide rather than unite, Balkan Diskurs offers young citizens from across the region a chance to engage on issues of common concern, with a particular focus on the lack of transparent, objective accurate media.
Regional Genocide Prevention Seminar
In collaboration with the Office of the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide (OSAPG), PCRC runs an annual seminar to the build the capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Balkans working in the fields of human rights, peace building, and the prevention and prosecution of crimes against humanity. The seminar aims to raise the awareness of factors that cause genocide and mass atrocities and facilitate discussions on practical applications for CSOs to contribute to the prevention of genocide.

see list of projects in attachment

WORK METHODS
The Association “PRONI” Centre for Youth Development works along the principles and models of social education based on experience and positive examples of the youth and community work methodologies. Social education models promoted and applied by “PRONI” are:
• Interactive learning method,
• Team work,
• Individual work,
• Creating safe environment for development,
• Encouraging responsibility and creativity,
• Promoting voluntary work,
• Raising awareness among young people on their rights and obligations.

Red Cross Society implements its traditional programs and they are: Home care proram, Disaster management and response, Tracing service, Mine awareness, Population movement and migration, Humanitarian assistance. In addition to them Red Cross has implemented so far a number of other contemporary projects, including various campaign ( such as blood donation, Kid's festival, Mine awareness, TB awareness campaigns etc)

"Sanus" focuses its project in three main areas - environment protection, youth issues and gender issues. It is a member-NGO of Environmental Coalition of the Una River Basin, and most environmental project are implemented in cooperation with the Coalition. Those are mainly project of raising public awareness and increasing public participation in decision making process. "Sanus" is a member of Youth Council of the municipality of Prijedor, and as such works on all issues related to youth including participation in decision making process, creating youth policies etc. As for the gender issues, "Sanus" cooperates with "Udruzene zene" association in projects regarding women participation in politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Set-up and promotion of the landmark Sarajevo Meeting of Culture
Awareness campaign about peace coexistence and tolerance in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Region
Creating study program for student visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina and Western Balkan region In order to give appropriate education and information about history and heritage , culture diversity in cooperation with different higher education institutions. 
 

Project in process, which will be SAVart's first project, is multimedia project called "Agoraphonia" which has several elements:
- Visual (metal installation, photography)
- Musical (instrument which transfers movement into sound, band from Italy)
- Performing (contemporary dance performance using Agoraphonia instrument as scene instrument)
- Interactive (instrument/installation is placed on city square where passing-by people become involved in the project)
After this project SAVart will continue with some movement installations, video art and projects with B&H artists as well as artists from Europe.

Our main project is the project called ,, Bridge'' which we have been implementing for three years with germany peace NGO called Pax Christi
The main goal of this project is to connect young people of diffrent religions and nations from both BiH entities as well as estabishing a dialogue with the purpose to foster mutual understanding and tolerance and to thereby contribute to strengthening peaceful coexistence in Bosnia – Hezegovina and the strengthening of intercultural dialogue.
The reason why we launched this project is that because Bosnia – Herzegovina is in an unenviable situation.
Just 15 years ago, we went from hard and bloody war and the consequences of that war people are still being felt.
Even after 15 years has not stopped religious and ethnic hatred between the three constituent peoples and there are even more and more and other types of intolerance - social, racial, gender, economic, etc.
Instead of that country going forward, every day sinks deeper and deeper.
What is the worst, in all of this is that from day to day, we have formed a new young generation of all three sides who hate others because they are a different religious or national affiliation and these new generations have a very low level of tolerance towards other people and do not understand and do not accept something that is different from them.
All this leads to the collapse of the state and every day we have expressed increasing discrimination at every turn and violation of human rights.
A big problem in this country is also a so-called period of transition which many politicians use to further deepen the gap between citizens.
A good example of how all this can be overcome and make this country an example to others, is Germany.
Germany, after World War II was in the same situation as Bosnia - Herzegovina, but has managed to all kinds of intolerance and discrimination left behind and become what it is today - one of the leading countries in the world that has opened its doors to many other nations and allow them to go to school and live in peace and have a better life.
For this to succeed, the Germans had to educate a new generation of Germans who will be full of tolerance and understanding and to be able to accept something that is totally different from themselves. That's what young people in BiH should learn and that is why we decided to include the youth in Germany, which together with young people from both BiH entities are participating in this project. The project consists of the implementation of workshops with the theme: peace, tolerance, coexistence, non-violent communication, etc.
We created the web page just for the participants of this project and on this web site young set out its tasks, participating in various forums and discussions whose topics related to themes of peace and coexistence, and also may contact via chat.
Our second activity is Regional Peace Initiative, a network of 15 NGOs that are linked to implementation of peace initiatives in the region.
Pax Christi has launched this initiative and all the others 14 organizations are full members who make decisions about everything - creating goals, vision, mission and implementation thereof.
The third activity is that Sixth Sense is one of the members of the Coordinating Committee and participated in organizing this great event, International Day of Peace, 21.09. who three years ago began to celebrate in Derventa the first time in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Each year, some NGOs in our country and neighboring countries come to this event and set up their stands through which they present their organization.
Every year, we organize a roundtable on the topic of man and freedom to which take part the representatives of these organizations that deal with issues of peace, coexistence and inter-religious and intercultural dialogue.
Program on the stage every year is a diversified, creative and interesting.
Also there is the race of peace which lasts 21 minutes due to the symbolic date of 21st September and in this race are involving children from primary and secondary schools from our region and they are wearing shirts with messages of peace.
We are very proud because of our Sixth sense organization is a part of this great event and because we are a member of the Coordinating Committee.
We are working also on the implementation of many activities with the organizations and networks I mentioned earlier.
There are also visits to various seminars, trainings, workshops, camps, etc.

SEEYN implements activities in three different strategic intervention areas :
1. SEEYN Service: training and consultancy, promotion and advocating for volunteering and researches and publication on volunteerism
2. SEEYN Exchange Programs and Development: long term volunteers exchanges, short term exchanges and local volunteering clubs
3. SEEYN Network Maintenance