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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.

ppplogoThe Peace Academy is happy to announce our partnership as part of a three-year project (2023-2026) entitled “Developing and Testing New Approaches to Peace Professionalism”. The project will

  1. Establish a network or a community of practice to improve our understanding of peace work and related skills, competencies, and values;
  2. Develop and test a system of assessment that can be scaled at the local, national, and international levels to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of peace professionals; and
  3. Create a platform to increase knowledge co-production, translation, and sharing about peace professionalism.

Overall, the project seeks to improve the planning, implementation, and evaluation of peace programs, and to complement curricula in peace and conflict studies.

The Contribution of Pracademics within the International Peace Architecture

This workshop aims to foster new scholarship and debates between peace-oriented pracademics (practitioner academics), scholars, civil society actors and practitioners working in and focusing on interdisciplinary fields in cases relevant to an improved understanding of the current challenges in the International Peace Architecture (IPA). Pracademics are little understood in terms of their methodological and experiental capacities, yet they bridge practice and theory. They have been responsible for significant steps forward in the historical development of an IPA.

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Essays

  • Peace Academy Reflection

    Course participant: Tory Tevis I would like to begin my reflection on the Sarajevo Peace Academy by first stating how difficult it was to settle on a topic to write about.  All the themes, ideas and...

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  • Which Way to Peace?

    Course Participant: Dubravka Kalac (Zadar, Croatia) Sometimes, when I walk the streets of my city, late in the evening, when there's only silence present, pictures of  not so distant past strike me,...

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Ubleha for idiots

  • Language of ubleha

    In a national sense, that is the English language (See). In a metaphysical sense, it is Heidegger explained to children in such a way that now even the adults cannot understand it at all and children are not interested in it anyway. In a political sense, Macchiavelli is generally thought to be the originator. Technically, it is based upon Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge, where a single topic varies until it becomes almost unrecognizable. It is a simplified structuralistic performance where the key tools are template, cut, paste. This guide you are reading at the moment is considered to be the best encyclopaedic introduction into the secrets of the language of ubleha.

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.