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History Teaching Materials on 1992- 1995 in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Building Trust or Deepening Divides?
Publishing date: 26 April 2023
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Education
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Following the introduction of content on the 1992-1995 period in BiH into textbooks and teaching materials, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina conducted an analysis, the results of which are brought together in this report. The purpose of this report is two-fold: to present the results of the analysis on the representation of this sensitive period in teaching materials and the subject of history textbooks currently in use and to suggest ways to teach history that would promote mutual understanding, reconciliation, and sustainable peace in BiH.
The Peace Young People Wish to Build in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 19 September 2022
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Education, Youth, Tolerance and non-discrimination
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
December 2020 marked the 25th anniversary of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The country achieved this milestone thanks to the hard work of BiH's citizens who began rebuilding and healing communities divided and impacted by the war. Many of those rebuilding BiH were, and continue to be, young people born in the 1990s and after. That same December, to commemorate this important anniversary, we asked young people across Bosnia and Herzegovina what the last two and a half decades meant to them. Six months later, in June 2021, we issued another call to the country's youth to imagine – and to convey through their art – what the subsequent 25 years of a peaceful and prosperous future should look like.
School names, symbols and manifestations at primary and secondary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A status update with recommendations
Publishing date: 27 December 2021
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights, Education, Youth
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This report examines school names, symbols and manifestations at the primary and secondary school level in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The report is the latest status update produced by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Mission) on the topic of non-inclusive education in the country. Findings are based on the Mission’s regular monitoring of more than 2,000 central and branch schools located throughout BiH.
Interview with Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec, Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH and Dr Rownak Khan, UNICEF BiH Representative on importance of international large-scale assessments in education in BiH
Publishing date: 2 December 2021
Content type: Interview
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Education
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Interview with Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec, Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina; Fokus.ba, January 2021
Publishing date: 2 February 2021
Content type: Interview
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights, Education, Elections, Media freedom and development, Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
An Interview with Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec, Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina on elections, judiciary, hate incidents, discrimination in education and media freedom, for the news portal Fokus.ba, 21 January 2021;
“Two Schools Under One Roof”- The Most Visible Example of Discrimination in Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 3 December 2018
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Human rights, Education
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) the right to education is being violated because of discrimination, which exists in schools in both entities. This report from the OSCE Mission to BiH (‘the Mission’) addresses the practice of ‘two schools under one roof’ in the Federation of BiH (FBiH) as the most visible (but by no means only) manifestation of discrimination in the education systems of the country.
Modernising Literature and Language Teaching
Publishing date: 22 December 2010
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Education
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Review of reform of literature and language teaching in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Modernizing History Teaching (textbooks and curriculum)
Publishing date: 22 December 2010
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Education
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Overview of the revision of History teaching in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Education inspectors: a neglected resource
Publishing date: 29 September 2007
Content type: Report
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Education
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Overview of status and activities of education inspectors in Bosnia and Herzegovina