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A Mapping of Educational Initiatives for Intercultural Dialogue, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Among Young People in the Western Balkans 6 A Mapping of Educational Initiatives for Intercultural Dialogue, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation among Young People in the Western Balkans 6 Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo1, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia July 2019 Prepared by Dr Sara Clarke-Habibi For UNICEF Albania and the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) Note: Unless otherwise indicated, the views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of UNICEF or its partners. This mapping remains a living document. Project information and recommendations may be revised based on input from Country Offices at any point throughout the PBF programme cycle. For questions or comments, please contact the project coordinator ([email protected]) 1 All references to Kosovo in this document should be understood in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999). Final version 07.10.2019 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................... 4 CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND .......................................................................................................................... 4 Building Capacity and Momentum to Support Reconciliation in the Western Balkans ...................................... 5 Purpose and Objectives of the Mapping ............................................................................................................ 7 Methodology of the Study .................................................................................................................................. 8 Data Collection and Analysis Methods .......................................................................................................... 8 Good Practice Criteria .................................................................................................................................... 8 Limitations & Challenges ............................................................................................................................... 9 Scope of the Mapping .................................................................................................................................. 10 MAPPING SECTION 1: MULTI-THEMATIC REGIONAL AND CROSS-BORDER INITIATIVES ................................. 10 RYCO Projects ................................................................................................................................................... 10 DIALOGUE FOR THE FUTURE ............................................................................................................................ 16 UPSHIFT ............................................................................................................................................................ 20 GENERATION UNLIMITED ................................................................................................................................. 26 U-REPORT ......................................................................................................................................................... 27 DIVIDED PAST – JOINT FUTURE ........................................................................................................................ 29 MAPPING SECTION 2: THEMATIC INITIATIVES ................................................................................................ 31 Intercultural dialogue ....................................................................................................................................... 31 Dealing with the past ....................................................................................................................................... 34 Countering & preventing violent extremism .................................................................................................... 37 Peacebuilding ................................................................................................................................................... 39 Social innovation / youth social enterprise ...................................................................................................... 41 MAPPING SECTION 3: KEY ACTORS & INITIATIVES BY COUNTRY .................................................................... 42 Albania ............................................................................................................................................................. 42 Bosnia and Herzegovina ................................................................................................................................... 52 Kosovo .............................................................................................................................................................. 63 Montenegro...................................................................................................................................................... 68 North Macedonia ............................................................................................................................................. 75 Serbia................................................................................................................................................................ 82 MAPPING SECTION 4: KEY COMPETENCY FRAMEWORKS ............................................................................... 91 Peacebuilding Competency Framework (2016) ................................................................................................ 91 CORE Life Skills Competence Framework (2017) .............................................................................................. 92 Competences for Democratic Culture (2018) ................................................................................................... 93 2 Final version 07.10.2019 MAPPING SECTION 5: KEY CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS ............................................................................... 94 Joinet-Orentlicher Principles for Dealing with the Past (1997/2005) ............................................................... 94 4R’s of Sustainable Peacebuilding in Education (2015) .................................................................................... 96 Contact theory and intergroup relations (1954 / 1979) ................................................................................... 98 MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS AND PERCEIVED PERFORMANCE ........................................................................ 100 RYCO-Supported Initiatives ............................................................................................................................ 101 UNICEF-Supported Initiatives ......................................................................................................................... 102 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE PROGRAMMING IN THE WESTERN BALKANS ....................................... 103 Key Needs and Recommendations ................................................................................................................. 103 Further Recommendations ............................................................................................................................. 106 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................................................ 108 ANNEXES ..................................................................................................................................................... 108 Annex 1: Key Terms and Definitions ............................................................................................................... 109 Annex 2: Organisation of the Mapping Exercise ............................................................................................ 114 Annex 3: Key Informant Interview Framework ............................................................................................... 116 Annex 4: Annotated Bibliography of Key Sources and Reference Documents ................................................ 118 Annex 5: Consultancy Terms of Reference ..................................................................................................... 130 3 Final version 07.10.2019 fa INTRODUCTION This mapping has been prepared as a contribution to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) project “Supporting the Western Balkan's collective leadership on reconciliation: building capacity and momentum for the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO)”. Output 1 of this project aims to strengthen the capacities of schools to access and use RYCOs resources to undertake intercultural dialogue in the Western Balkans 6 (WB6). This is to be achieved by enhancing regional cooperation among youth institutions (mainly schools) and to increase the introduction and use of topics on intercultural learning such as peace building and conflict resolution. Towards this end, the present document maps best practices from across the region of educational initiatives that work with peacebuilding transformative pedagogies. The analysis employs a gender-sensitive lens and identifies best experiences on how peacebuilding is mainstreamed and enrooted across curricula and teaching processes. CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND Ethnic nationalism was a key factor in many of the tragedies of the 1990s Balkan wars, and a tool that is still frequently
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