Social Cohesion

Social cohesion is a societal challenge that requires a Since 2013, the Mission has The main focus of the CaHs is strategic approach and the engagement of numerous supported the establishment to react to and condemn hate and activities of 31 Coalitions and bias incidents, and initiate stakeholders. Improved community cohesion achieved against Hate (CaHs) across social cohesion actions within via the sustained engagement of civil society actors and , local communities. and public authorities in the implementation of bringing together over 300 civil locally-designed Community Cohesion Action Plans society organizations (CSOs) (CCAPs), is a central element of the OSCE Mission and individuals into informal yet influential groups. to ’s engagement in this field.

To facilitate this, the Mission local and intercommunity social is dedicated to building co- cohesion activities, and the operation and co-ordination prevention of bias and hate between stakeholders, playing related crimes and incidents. its role in the sustainability of As of 2020, the Mission continues to provide support to 20 CaHs in , Brčko, Čapljina, , Foča, Gornji Vakuf - Uskoplje, Gradačac, , , , , , , , Teočak, , , Višegrad, and . Furthermore, local officials are committed to hate and bias prevention by introducing official municipal protocols for the condemnation of such incidents. The focus of Mission’s work is on increasing the perseverance of civil society members to augment the impact of these interventions through their active participation in the design and implementation of local policies. At the same time, the Mission seeks commitment from public officials to continuously include civil society in addressing strategic and daily challenges in the respective communities.

The Mission supports the These include project These include the design and structural revision of CaHs in management, monitoring and administration of the website CCAPs are documents terms of improving their internal analysis of social cohesion, www.supergradjani.ba, as developed by local engagement procedures, media and communications, well as Facebook, Twitter authorities in partnership thus reinforcing their position and advocacy. Furthermore, and Instagram accounts with civil society and integrity within local the Mission organizes study also connected to the name organizations, mainly communities. This provides visits and incountry regional Supergradjani (Super Citizens). CaH members, with the validity to CaHs in establishing activities for local activists on The website allows citizens Mission’s assistance. Such a dialogue with local authorities social cohesion, providing to report hate and bias plans provide background and continues to encourage an opportunity to network motivated incidents/crimes information on recorded the greater involvement of local communities and create an through the interactive map cases of hate incidents, authorities in social cohesion environment that fosters the incorporated into the website. define stakeholders in activities. exchange of good practices, local communities, present and future joint activities. previous activities, and The Mission provides capacity clearly define actions building opportunities for CSOs Activities of CSOs on social (including responsible Web page and individuals, including CaHs, cohesion and the prevention parties, budgets and www.supergradjani.ba on issues previously identified and condemnation of hate timeframes) that need to be FB Supergrađanke and Supergrađani: in co-operation with local or bias-motivated incidents taken in order to increase www.facebook.com/SuperGradjaniKe. communities’ stakeholders. requires visibility, hence the social cohesion within a Mission provides support in Twitter: community, or prevent the designing communication twitter.com SuperGradjaniKe. reoccurrence of incidents. channels that offer a platform Instagram: for positive stories. instagram.comsupergradjani_ke/.

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