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Ms. Damira Orozbaeva provides consultation on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) methodology as part of an HCNM project at the pilot school "Sh. Rysmendeev" in Kochkor district, Naryn province, Kyrgyz Republic, October 2016.

Why is education a useful tool for conflict prevention?

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Education can play a key role in the preventing conflict and is therefore a key focus of the High Commissioner on National Minorities. Among other things, education can foster a sense of opportunity and belonging, accommodate diversity and languages, and allow for multiple views on history.

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OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Astrid Thors at the Permanent Council in Vienna 2 June 2016. Photo: Micky Kröll/OSCE

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Alisa Feghiu and Liviu Rotaru from Elena Alistar Theatrical Lyceum in Chisinau, Moldova, placed second in the video contest Our school, our diversity.

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(l-r) OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors, and Srđan Verbić, Serbian Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development during the 20th anniversary of The Hague Recommendations Regarding the Education Rights of National Minorities, The Hague, the Netherlands, 20 April 2016.

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OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors at 20th Anniversary of The Hague Recommendations Regarding the Education Rights of National Minorities, The Hague, 21 April 2016. http://www.osce.org/hcnm/236191

Third place: winning video by Besim Bojadžija- Bosnia and Herzegovina

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OSCE HCNM video contest “Our school, our diversity: your story in 60 seconds”

A Short Story of the Bujanovac Department

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A film on the development of the HCNM-supported multilingual Bujanovac Department of the Subotica Faculty of Economics of the University of Novi Sad, in Serbia. The Bujanovac Department is the first truly multilingual and multi-ethnic higher education institute in southern Serbia. The first students graduated in November 2015, which also marked the inauguration of the permanent premises of the Bujanovac Department.

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OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Astrid Thors opens Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on OSCE’s contribution to the protection of national minorities, Vienna, 29 October 2015.

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Participants at the regional summer school on “Multilingual and Multicultural Education for Integration”, organized by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors, in co-operation with the Ministry of Education and Science and UNICEF, in Kyrgyzstan, 7 July 2015, Cholpon Ata, Kyrgyzstan.

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OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors (r) meets Director of the National Renaissance School Korlan Zhaisenbaeva (l), accompanied by Head of the Secretariat of the North Kazakhstan Oblast Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan Nail Salimov (c), in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, 18 June 2015.

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OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors talks to Turkmenistan Television, 4 June 2015, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.