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25 June 2009: CDRSEE Executive Director presents the JHP in Dubrovnik. On the occasion of a seminar organised under the umbrella of the European Fund for the Balkans in Dubrovnik, Nenad Sebek, the Center’s Executive Director, gave a lecture to the participants of the Fellowship Programme for Young Government Officials from the Western Balkans - Supporting Excellence and Leadership in Governance. Mr. Sebek presented to the trainees the Center’s Joint History Project, in a lecture entitled: “How Turkish is Your Coffee? – The Southeast European Joint History Project”. To read full article, click here.
24-26 June 2009: CDRSEE joins the ERSTE Foundation in a high-profile conference in Bucharest. The Center was invited to participate by the ERSTE Foundation to the conference The Future of Social Change 1989 – 2009: Visions and Perspectives after 20 Years of Transition, which took place between 24 and 26 June 2009 in Bucharest, Romania. The conference aimed at marking the 20 year anniversary of the fall of Communism with a look back at the developments of the last 20 years in order to assess and address challenges ahead. To read more, click here.
25-26 April 2009: Third Local Teacher Training Workshop for the Croatian Language Edition of the JHP Workbooks. Gathering over twenty history teachers primarily from Dalmatia, Dubrovnik was the host to the third and last for this cycle local teacher training workshop for the Croatian language edition. Present were local language editor and international trainer Kresimir Erdelja, history professor and international trainer Snjezana Koren and director of local partner HUNP and teacher trainer Ivan Dukic. Additionally, history teachers Nikola Damjanovic, Sonja Bancic and Kiti Korda were present in the capacity of local teacher trainers and each delivered one model lesson. To read full article, click here.
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| Our Mission |
Comprising a diverse range of people, backgrounds, faiths, ideas, genders, ages and skills, the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe (CDRSEE) is one small group of people, in cooperation with considerable networks of groups of people, whose intent is to support and encourage democratic change in Southeast Europe. We at the CDRSEE believe that the key to a stable and peaceful region is the foundation of robust democracies and genuine peace; peace that has been constructed through reconciliation, discussion, open participation and agreement, rather than an imposed solution.
We are committed to investigating specific ways of enhancing and encouraging social dialogue and building social cohesion in this part of Europe. The CDRSEE activities raise awareness via publications, workshops, textbook analysis, academic conferences, opinion polls, training sessions, and cultural and artistic programmes. An increased exchange of information between the countries of the region via textbooks, school lessons, media, popular culture, art, and regional youth initiatives is essential to lasting peace.
The CDRSEE is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation advocating the principles of social responsibility and fostering civil society.
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| Our Commitment |
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
~Thomas Paine
The end of this decade brings challenges to the Balkans as big as the once that ushered it in. The global economic crisis has not even delivered its worst bite but the region is feeling the chill. Foreign investments and foreign aid are down, unemployment, uncertainty and instability are on the rise. Yet the support for the societies of the region is as crucial as ever if Southeast Europe is to continue its road towards the EU in a peaceful and democratic manner.
Much of the social capital that has been built up over the last decade and a half is at risk of being lost, if genuine indigenous solutions are not encouraged, fostered and strengthened. Our commitment and perhaps our greatest challenge is to help the peoples of the region to help themselves; drawing on the unique qualities, capabilities and resilience that are intrinsic to the region’s peoples and to bridge the gap between the past and the future; the gap between being a transitional region, to prosperous and peaceful one. |
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