Publications

Published by the OSCE Presence in Albania

The publication is the updated version of the Reference Manual of the OSCE Economic and Environmental Dimension Commitments, published in 2014. The compilation is organized according to major meetings of the OSCE policy-making bodies. It contains the text of all Economic and Environmental Dimension related documents adopted at Summit and Ministerial Council levels, as well as relevant Permanent Council decisions.

Newsletter by the OSCE Secretariat

Since 2017, the OSCE Mission to Serbia through the DemSec project has been supporting the Public Policy Research Centre in launching annual competition for the best human security essays for students from Belgrade University. Given the global impact of Covid-19 on all aspects of social life, this year’s Call for Papers focused on the effects of the pandemic on human security and the threat posed by the virus on individuals in a variety of fields. All three papers chosen this year were written by women and all three examine Covid-19 as a global phenomenon and a threat to security. This publication is available in Serbian and in English.

The Mission conducted public Perception Survey of the Police on attitudes of Montenegrin citizens towards the work of Police Directorate in late November- early December 2020. The survey emphasis was on citizens view of the main threats to their personal safety, safety problems in their respective towns and national level, perception of the institutions and overall police reform. The aim was to provide data and analysis about the public perception of policing in Montenegro that could help to better identify areas for improving and shaping future actions to overcome spotted challenges.

This is a special publication marking the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Skopje Mission

Inside the magazine: Cyber/ICT security; When nature comes unbound: flood relief and disaster risk reduction; the OSCE in Ukraine: election monitoring, deploying the Special Monitoring Mission; the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration; Open Fun Football Schools; Interview with Madeleine Rees; Book review: Victor-Yves Ghebali’s history of the OSCE.

This report describes the results from a two-week Heritage Lab workshop on rural development held in Letnicë/Letnica in 2019, and outlines the process of creating a rural development plan from its early stage. Based on international experience and local knowledge, it offers an insight in the multifaceted aspects of rural development through the valorisation of cultural and natural heritage. The report also presents the key challenges that Letnicë/Letnica and the small Kosovo Croat community are facing, as well as the positive features and potential this multi-ethnic village has to contribute to its sustainable change. Based on the analysis of the local resources, the report offers broad recommendations for development which represent the four pillars of sustainable development: social, economic, environmental, and cultural. These recommendations should stimulate the elaboration of both a full rural development plan and an action plan to guide its implementation for Letnicë/Letnica and the communities that live there.

This joint publication by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and UNESCO aims to assist primary school teachers in preventing and responding to anti-Semitism. It is part of a set of four training curricula designed for trainers of (1) primary school teachers, (2) secondary school teachers, (3) vocational school teachers and (4) school directors.