The project focused on dialogue training of secondary school students coming from Nevesinje, Mostar, Prozor – Rama, Gornji Vakuf – Uskoplje, Goražde, Sokolac, Kladanj, Srebrenica, Bratunac, Vlasenica, Sapna, Trebinje, Kalesija, Zvornik, Jablanica, Bugojno and Sarajevo.
Project implementation was followed by a mini-study – evaluation of activities, with emphasis on the prospects of young people in BiH.
The project was supported by USAID BiH through the PRO-Future project of CRS.

The project focused on the cooperation between students from the First Gymnasium in Sarajevo and the secondary school “28. Juni” in East Sarajevo. The participants passed joint dialogue training, did a presentation of their schools during mutual visits, and co-produced the publication “Our Story”.
The project was supported by the Swiss Embassy in BiH.

This was a fundamental project of NDC Sarajevo, within which the Nansen Dialogue Approach was developed and implemented. The project was implemented within three areas: education, local self-government and action research. The project involved secondary and elementary schools, along with the municipalities of Srebrenica, Bratunac, Zvornik and Jajce. Working with all target groups in these sectors, NDC initiated the development of local multiethnic coordination boards, which implemented a series of interethnic, socially useful activities at the local and inter-municipal level. One of the results of the project was the establishment of the Dialogue Centre Srebrenica-Bratunac, intending to coordinate activities for these two communities. Next to the main project line, several subprojects were implemented, which contributed to overall success.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway supported the main project line, while subprojects were supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway in BiH, USAID BiH, the United States Embassy in BiH – OPA, the Mennonite Central Committee, Balkan Trust for Democracy and the British Embassy in BiH.

This project provided an opportunity for NDC to cooperate with education ministries at the levels of entities, cantons and the Brčko District, and legal experts, to develop a manual for working in secondary schools on the topic of the constitution and constitutional procedures. Within the project, training was conducted that involved 36 secondary school teachers from all parts of BiH. The second stage of the project was implemented in 18 secondary schools across BiH, where the students through extracurricular activities studied the constitution and its procedures, and as a result, they prepared some amendments. The third stage of the project entailed cooperation between schools and the final presentation of the project’s constitutional amendments in the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH.
The project’s first stage was supported by CCI, while two other stages were supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway in BiH. More info on this link. (BHS only)

A multiethnic group of elementary school pupils from Bratunac and Sarajevo took part in the Norwegian Football Cup in Oslo, during August 2014, strengthening mutual and international friendship and sportsmanship.
The project was supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway in BiH.

The project established initial connections and cooperation between Norwegian and Bosnian experts with the purpose to organise the European Youth Olympic Festival in BiH.
The project was supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway in BiH.

During 2005 a series of round-table discussions were organised on the topic of “Interethnic relations in local communities” across towns in eastern Bosnia. The aim was to open space for interethnic dialogue in local communities, while in many of those communities these were the very first interethnic public gatherings after the war ended in 1995. Additionally, based on gathered information, NDC focused its activities entirely on Srebrenica and Bratunac since 2006, and in 2009 it also involved Zvornik and Jajce.
The project activities were supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway.

Responding to the invitation by the OSCE Mission in BiH, NDC organised interethnic dialogue seminars for teachers in more than 50 secondary and elementary schools in BiH.
The project activities were supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway and the EU.

The project was implemented in cooperation with the Norwegian Film Institute and the Nansen Dialogue Network. It included a series of movies tackling the topic of wars on the territories of former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. It was designed and implemented in the form of a travelling festival, with film screenings and roundtables in Sarajevo, Mostar, Banjaluka, Osijek, Zagreb and Belgrade.
The project was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway.

In cooperation with the cultural association Ambrosia, within the framework of the GUMA coalition – a civic stronghold of multicultural activists – a radiobroadcast series were aired every week at the students’ radio-station EfM. Radio-shows addressed social, political and cultural issues.
The project activities were supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway.

It was founded and led by the GUMA coalition partners, cultural associations Ambrosia and Album. NDC undertook the role of official publisher from 2001 until 2005, when the journal was discontinued.
It was the first “hard-core multi” democratic journal in BiH, gathering authors from all parts of BiH, neighbouring countries and beyond, affirming all languages and alphabets used in BiH, offering space for different aesthetic, political, social and cultural viewpoints, and lifestyles.
During the period when NDC published the journal, funding was provided through project activities financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway, Open Society Foundation Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.

In 2001, in cooperation with GUMA coalition partners, Ambrosia and Album, NDC took part in drafting a feasibility report on an independent cultural centre, to act as a hub for civil society organisations involved in cultural and social activism, from a multicultural perspective.
The feasibility report draft was supported by the EU funds for independent culture.

In cooperation with GUMA coalition partners, Ambrosia and Album, NDC organised a three-day gathering of the representatives of academic, cultural and social institutions and organisations from the Western Balkans region, addressing minority issues from the perspective of civil society. The event included a conference and art performances in Sarajevo, while a special edition of Album was dedicated to this topic.
The project was supported by the Open Society Foundation Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In cooperation with the Atelier for Philosophy, Social Sciences and Psychoanalysis from Sarajevo, Transeuropeannes and the School of Psychoanalysis “Sigmund Freud” from Paris, NDC organised a series of academic lectures, conferences and workshops on ethnic and cultural identities, psychoanalysis, conflict analysis, and relations between religion and politics.
A larger portion of these project activities was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway.

During 2002-2005, NDC premises were used to organise topical interethnic dialogue meetings of university students from both Sarajevo and East Sarajevo. They conducted dialogue sessions on the widest spectrum of sensitive social, political and cultural issues. According to available information, it was within the framework of this project that public discussions on the status of LGBT communities in BiH were led for the first time.
The project activities were supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway and by the Sinalco Company.

In cooperation with the cultural association Ambrosia, under the auspices of the GUMA coalition, a series of cultural and art activities were organised that were dedicated to alternative artistic practices and their contribution to the peacebuilding processes.
The project activities were supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway.

In cooperation with the cultural association Ambrosia and Dutch organisation UNITED for Intercultural Action, a series of activities, roundtables, street performances and concerts were organised in Sarajevo and East Sarajevo on raising awareness of and combating all sorts of discrimination.
The project activities were supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway and UNITED for Intercultural Action.

Within the framework of setting up NDC and cooperation with Nansen Dialogue Network, a series of dialogue seminars were organised for different target groups – media, NGOs, politicians, educational staff, local authorities, students – on the issues of interethnic dialogue, cultural identity, conflict management, non-violent communication, and gender equality.
The project activities were supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway.