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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

  • Family memories

    Course participant: Kaja Haelbich (Hamburg, Germany) In our course "Understanding Internal Dynamics of Societies in Conflict" we started to engage in the topic of Israel Palestine conflict by...

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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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Videos

Ubleha for idiots

  • Implementer

    A selected NGO (See), whose ubleha was swallowed (See: Pušenje) by the donor (See) with the prospects of swallowing it systematically and long term. For the purpose of justifying the systematic swallowing, the donor hires an expert (See) to perform an evaluation (See). There are local and international ones, while local ones are always the ones on the bottom but happy.

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.