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Recognizing young people as key partners for positive change and promoters of mutual understanding and with a view to ensuring that the concerns, needs, priorities, aspirations, and vulnerabilities of young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina are adequately identified and considered, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina hereby publishes a Call for Applications for volunteers- members of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Youth Advisory Group (YAG).

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.

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.

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina invites you to participate in Leaders against Intolerance and Violent Extremism (LIVE) Training Course for Youth. We are looking for 15 highly-motivated young individuals aged from 18 to 30, from different parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who will gain knowledge and skills to take safe and effective action aimed at prevention of violent extremism and receive support in development of initiatives for increasing resilience to violent extremism in their communities. The OSCE is committed to diversity and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all religious, ethnic and social backgrounds to apply. If you are interested, see more information in the Call for Applications. The deadline for submitting applications is 23:00 on 2 February 2020.