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Education programmes are an integral part of the Organization's efforts in conflict prevention and post-conflict rehabilitation.

The OSCE's education programmes include human rights, environmental, legal and gender education. They aim to develop training of professional and practical skills in such areas as project management for civil servants and the promotion of structural reforms.

The organization also takes a leading role in the education of police forces in several countries of the former Soviet Union and in the Balkans.

OSCE Institutions active in education programmes:

Features

OSCE Kosovo Mission helps sustain Bosnian-language education

Kosovo Bosniak students at the Faculty of Education in Prizren take a pedagogy test on 28 April 2009. The OSCE Mission is helping to improve their education by facilitating co-operation between the Faculty and universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)

With assistance from the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, the Faculty of Education in Prizren is co-operating with universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to help tackle a shortage of teachers in the Bosnian language.
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First Armenian-language Model OSCE tackles environmental issues

Students discuss during the Model OSCE conference in Armenia, Yerevan, May 2009 (OSCE)

The first Armenian-language Model OSCE organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan in Gyumri, Armenia on 8 and 9 May 2009, which focussed on environmental issues and a territorial dispute, was a resounding success despite failure to reach consensus.
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OSCE works with authorities in Skopje to reverse segregation in education

Students Shqiponja Kasa (r), ethnic Albanian, and Rebeka Lazeska, ethnic Macedonian, perform in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in an OSCE project to promote inter-ethnic communication in Kicevo, 28 February 2009. (OSCE)

Activities in schools by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje are helping to fight segregation and improve inter-ethnic communication.
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Students from Pivnice visit the National Assembly of Serbia as part of an OSCE Mission programme that gives multi-ethnic students from rural towns the chance to learn about their country's main democratic institutions. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)

Students from Pivnice visit the National Assembly of Serbia as part of an OSCE Mission programme that gives multi-ethnic students from rural towns the chance to learn about their country's main democratic institutions. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)