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Promo Ccd 14102013-1 Centre of Cultivating dialogue 1997 – 2013 THIS IS HOW IT ALL BEGAN... Back in 1997, a handful of enthusiasts initiated a program one hardly could have predicted for bright future considering the political, economic and educational situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Differences and divisions in the country were much more pronounced than today, which was especially noticed in educational program. However, sixteen years later the program can boast with a number of activities and participants to be envied by many, even most respected international programs. The first teachers to be involved in the program could not have even imagined that they would be a part of the team that would participate in activities like seminars, meetings, round table discussions, summer camps, debate activities at the school level, TV debates, and world championships. Even less could they imagine that these activities would become a matter of tradition, one that future generations can look up to and admire. Since then more than 350 high school teachers from 75 Bosnian towns were educated through, on average, somewhat less than 150 activities per year. The program itself was obviously not created for teachers, but first and foremost for the benefit of young people in BiH. The goal has been to educate and train young people in debating skills and consequently in democracy and tolerance, which can be applied daily. This is Centre of Cultivating Dialogue, a program which sets debate as a contemporary method of education, through direct cooperation of all participants and constant rhetoric, cross examination, argumentation, research exercises… The total number of people involved in the aforementioned activities has grown to 33.000 and all of them have at least some experience they use today. The following maxim is important to keep in mind in debating program: „HEAR ME OUT, RESPE CT ME, DON'T DEMEAN AND VALUE FAIRNESS! “ LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CENTRE OF CULTIVATING DIALOGUE The debate program was founded in 1997 and was implemented within the Open Society Fund – SOROS BiH, non-governmental, non-partisan and Participants of Youth forum 2009, BiH non-profit program for high school students and teachers from all parts of BiH. At the time it was one of the youngest programs in the network of debate programs and is now a member of International Debate Education Organization (IDEA). In January 2005 the Debate Program evolved into the Centre of Cultivating Dialogue, a non-governmental organization, thus expanding its mission and goals. Since 2010 CCD is a member of World Debate Organization for „World School“ debate format (WSDC), NGO Council, Justice Network in BiH. Since 2011 it is a member of WIFI (World Intercultural Facility for Innovation) and has signed an“Agreement on cooperation between the Government of Sarajevo Canton and NGO sector in Sarajevo 1 Centre of Cultivating dialogue 1997 – 2013 Canton ” and “Agreement between the City of Sarajevo and civil society organizations of the City of Sarajevo ”. In May 2010, during 7 th public debate on juvenile delinquency, CCD reached an Agreement on mutual continuous reporting with aim to establish transparency of work of all engaged sectors and open dialogue between them in solving the problem of juvenile delinquency. Centre of Cultivating Dialogue has organized 11 public debates on this topic, and showed that debate and culture of dialogue are not only theoretical skills, but that they can help through its practical application in solving severe social problems, such as juvenile delinquency. In 16 years of its existence and work CCD has continuously reached out and cooperated with, fore mostly BiH youth, driven by the fact that Bosnian society can become a truly democratic one only if young people are given the opportunity to develop their skills, overcome obstacles and prejudices set before them by society, and start communicating with their peers around the world. It is CCD's stance that the entire Bosnian society is hindered, its progress arrested by ceaseless conflicts, but at the same time by investing substantially in its youngest generations as the bearers of progress BiH can advance on its course of European integration. Therefore, CCD focuses all of its activities towards the youth as its target group. Due to a multitude of artificial divisions the young face growing up in BiH, since their earliest years, they have developed extensive prejudice towards the other and the different. Simultaneously, due to a paucity of systematic and continuous activities pursuing the solution to this problem, these malformed convictions become a widely accepted form of thought. THE MISSION The mission of the program is to foster critical thinking and democratic principles of decision making, creating by the means of debate a new democratic model of civil society having in mind that there is more to abolishing a totalitarian political establishment than setting up new political institutions, namely enabling the new modes of thinking to permeate all spheres of private and public life. THE VISION Both the vision and the goals of CCD are, before all, educational in their nature and involve, but are not limited to the following: nurturing an open society by assisting with activities that promote a free exchange of ideas, tolerance, critical thinking and regional and international cooperation. In the strides towards achieving its mission and making its vision a reality, CCD attempts to: Execute, organize, coordinate, support and participate in educational and other types of programs and activities which are of benefit to the public, no matter whether they are organized by CCD or other people and organizations or their subdivisions who: acknowledge the goals and mission of CCD, support the development of open society, democracy, democratic values, freedoms and human rights, improve the common goals of IDEA, WSDC, NGO Council, Justice Network in BiH and WIFI member 2 Centre of Cultivating dialogue 1997 – 2013 organizations by increasing donor potential for raising credibility and improving the efficiency of CCD’s program and activities Execute, organize, coordinate, support as well as participate in programs and activities which are, according to the decision of the General Assembly of the Association, constructive and consistent with expansion of CCD’s goals, in accordance with the law and for public good Extend financial, material and any other assistance to persons or organizations who implement programs complementary to the vision and goals of CCD through approved financial programs and projects Restrain from promulgating adverse influence to the law making process Restrain from participating or being involved in any political campaign be it for or against any candidate for a post in public service, which includes not publishing announcements in regards to the aforementioned processes. THE GOALS Through implementation of mission and vision, CCD tries to achieve: Stimulating the development of culture of dialogue by enabling the youth and other interested parties to become the bearers of positive change, primarily within the educational system, aiming towards promotion of democratic models of communication and decision making, Promoting human rights and protection of human rights for all BiH citizens equally Stimulating the interactive method of communication in schools, Promoting creativity and activity in youth and the development of critical thinking, thus empowering a generation of socially aware citizens, Collecting documentation, disseminating and publicly presenting information about youth, educating about the issues of human rights, culture, science and society in general, 3 Centre of Cultivating dialogue 1997 – 2013 Promoting children’s rights and all aspects of child protection and protection of marginalized and vulnerable groups in BiH, Supporting the empowerment of student councils in their advisory role in schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Initiating and supporting the creation of public debates in BiH, Promoting, advocating in favor of and gain acknowledgement for the needs of the youth in public life and government structure at any level in the matters pertaining to education and other relevant topics, Promoting the culture of dialogue in the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as in the languages of minorities and English and other foreign languages, Increasing the level of tolerance and bolstering respect towards ideas, attitudes, convictions and ethnic groups other than one's own, Publishing magazines, books, periodicals and other materials related to the goals of the Association and the education of the youth and wider public. CCD is a non-profit organization and no part of the financial assets, income or donations will be allocated to or benefit any single individual. Reasonable compensation will be given to individual persons or organizations for their services in the employ of CCD sanctioned activities in accordance with the goals of CCD. ORGANIZATION CHART Membership Activities Areas of engagemen t Membership Partners fees Budget Project Faculties partners Schools Donations Trainers Media NGO Debaters sector Government institutions Donors Manageme nt 4 Centre of Cultivating dialogue 1997 – 2013 AREAS OF ENGAGEMENT AND ACTIVITIES Activities Areas of engagement V Research V Education V Competitions V Informal education V (international, state, Providing information regional) V Media V Seminars V Secondary education - V Education reforms V Round tables V Tertiary
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