Publications

Published by the OSCE Presence in Albania

This policy brief provides an overview of the concrete steps and measures governments can take to establish or strengthen structural arrangements to make a comprehensive and needs-based hate crime victim support system a reality.

The publication guides you through the process of creating highly interactive workshops, with special reference to the implementation in the changed circumstances of educational work. The central part of the guide is a description of techniques, games and exercises that allow for an extremely high level of active participation of students in their process of learning and strengthening skills. The guidebook is available in Serbian language.

The research focuses on examining the needs of schools in the changed circumstances of educational work, with a focus on the perspective of teachers, while the results were used to create practical tools to support their work and create recommendations for preventing risky behaviors during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The research was conducted online among 916 teachers from 271 primary schools in Serbia. Based on the research results, recommendations were created to support teachers and schools in their work on the prevention of risky behaviors in COVID and post-COVID time. The publication is available in Serbian language.

Based on results of the Assessment Report: Needs of primary schools in Serbia during COVID-19 pandemic in the context of prevention of risky behaviours among students: teachers’ perspective, this guide was produced to support teachers in their work and efforts to respond to new challenges in the best possible way. The guide provides an overview of important tools for learning management, making tests / quizzes / questionnaires, collaborating and sharing, creating and editing presentations and videos, with clear guidelines for their use. Available in Serbian language.

The mandate of the OSCE Presence in Albania is to promote democratization, the rule of law, and human rights as well as to consolidate democratic institutions in line with OSCE principles, standards and commitments.

It is important to now what is a hate crime. When a hate crime is committed, one or more perpetrators target the victim, which can be one or more people or property, because of a protected aspect of the victim's identity, such as religion or ethnicity, race, sexual orientation or disability. Similarly, a hate incident is an act of hostility motivated by prejudice or bias that does not necessarily reach the threshold of a criminal offence, or the criminal nature of which is yet to be determined. A hate crime is any crime where the perpetrator is driven by prejudice or bias. Criminal offence + bias motive = hate crime

The Diagnostic Tool is a practical tool for assessing shortcomings and strengths in national hate crime victim support structures and services. The primary purpose of the Tool is to enable hate crime victim support practitioners, officials, activists and policymakers to identify areas in their national systems that require improvement to enhance protection and support for victims of hate crime.

The objective of this compendium is to illustrate the main features of an effective individual needs assessment (INA) of hate crime victims, using existing practices and initiatives that have been developed in relation to different aspects of INAs in countries covered by ODIHR's EStAR project. The publication shows that a more robust approach to developing an INA as an essential post-victimization tool is necessary, and that greater recognition is required of the importance and utility of this tool in securing victims’ rights and enabling their access to relevant services to address needs.

The Master of Sciences in “Transitional Justice” program at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Tirana is established to consolidate the conduct of research and teaching in the field of transitional justice in Albania. Through a comprehensive and integrated curriculum, the Master’s Programme will address those dimensions that are critical for understanding transitional justice in Albania, with specific reference to the social, political, institutional and legal context in which the transition from the communist past took place to the main actors and to what extent justice has been/can be achieved. The programme will draw lessons from comparisons with other societies transitioning from war-to-peace or authoritarianism-to-democracy.