Parents' Club "For
the Children of Vukovar"
and Nansen Dialogue Centre Osijek are launching, in
accordance to the Constitutionally guaranteed right to
education, as well as in accordance to rights of
parents and children to choose type and quality of
primary education, following initiative:
INITIATIVE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW SCHOOLsee more...
Nansen Dialogue Network is organizing
the sixth generation of
the
Virtual School of Dialogue, Democracy and Peaceful
Conflict Resolution.
Call for applications
Virtual School of Dialogue, Democracy and Peaceful
Conflict Resolution
April - June, 2007
Deadline for applications: April 3rd, 2007see more...
Seminar
«Advocating for a
Change»
In Spa St. Martin on Mura, NDC Osijek organised a
weekend seminar for parents, mebers of Parents' Club
«For the Children of Vukovar», and teachers involved
in The New School Project.
The goal of the seminar was adopting and improving
knowledge and skills needed for advocating and
lobbying.
Semianr was facilitated by Tamara Milanović and
Ljuljjeta Goranci-Brkić
Public lecture "Challenges of Interethnic Dialogue – Who is to
blame for peace in Gorski kotar?"
Held in Vukovar, hotel Dunav 5th of March
2007, 7 p.m. Public lecture «Challenges of
Interethnic Dialogue – Who is to blame for peace in
Gorski kotar?» was held. It was the occasion
to present a book “Oasis of Peace” and
its authors Nada Glad, Franjo Starčević and
Josip Horvat.
Guest-speakers from town of Delnice have presented,
directly communicating with a public from Vukovar,
their war-time experience from Gorski kotar, a
region of Croatia where a peace was preserved during
the Homeland War, while Vukovar and its surroundings
had to suffer a war horror.
Guests explained circumstances whish they were able
to use in order to preserve shaken interethnic
trust. Optimistic experience of these people, who
were direct actors of the establishing of “active
peace” in Gorski kotar, was also an encouragement
for people from Vukovar present at the public
lecture to start and endure in their efforts with a
goal of improving interethnic relations in Vukovar.
Sanja Vukičević, a journalist from Radio Dunav,
moderated this public lecture.
Series of workshops with topics
connected with responsible parenthood.
On the 8th of February 2007, Nansen
Dialogue Centre and parents’ Club “For the Children
of Vukovar” are organising a workshop “Your
Competent Child”. This workshops is first in series
of workshops dealing with responsible parenthood,
that will be held in premises of hotel Dunav in
Vukovar every two weeks.
The workshop “Your competent Child” starts at
18:00h.
Lecturer: Biljana Mrdović Varevac, psychologissee more...
promotion of the
calendar
"Vukovar- a town where cultures meet "
In its centuries old history, Vukovar belonged to
various kingdoms and republics. Each new country,
Vukovar belonged to, meant that new roads of
communications were opened, thus enabling
immigration to the city from different parts of
Europe and Asia. Since the medieval ages, the age
from which first information about city population
can be found, Vukovar was a place where people of
different ethnic groups lived together. Each ethnic
group bought its specific culture and a way of life,
its customs and traditions. Mutual interchange of
these traditions created a unique cultural space in
Vukovar. Although some key historic events have
almost completely erased some ethnic groups, each of
these groups left at least a small portion of its
heritage that still can be recognised in Vukovar.
Twelve sketches from the history of Vukovar provide
us with twelve stories about the town and ethnic
communities that lived in the town.see more...
On 28th of December, in the
framework of the
Dealing with the Past through Examples of Good
Project, Nansen Dialogue Centre has
realised radio-show «Examples of Noble Deeds
during Wartime». Radio show was aired on
Radio Dunav with intention of opening of this
neglected topic, as well as encouraging citizens
to call in with their own examples thus helping
collecting of such stories. Radio show was focused of
problems and issues that are appearing during
the process of dealing with the past.
Journalists' experiences as well as a testimony
of one actor of such a positive story, during
the attack on Vukovar, were presented. Personal
experience of a peace builder from Gorski Kotar
was also heard.The hosts were a Radio
Dunav journalist - Sanje Vukičević and a
Nansen Dialogue Centre coordinator Srđan
Antić. Guests were: Ljiljana Gehrecke
– President of European House Vukovar, Drago
Hedl – journalist and editor in Feral
Tribune, Split, and Nikola Tarle –
retired officer of a Croatian army.
Osijek
1st of December 2006.
Nansen Dialogue
Centre has celebrated five-year anniversary of
its work.
Suzana Agotić, president of NDC Osijek,
has given opening speech.
The movie “Five Beautiful Years”, about
the work of NDC Osijek, was also presented.
Norwegian Ambassador to the Republic of
Croatia, Her Excellency Elisabeth
Walaas also addressed all present, as well as
Heidrun Rohr Sorlie, the representative of
Nansen Dialogue Network from Norway.
In
the framework of The New School Project on the
19th of October 2006, in the Council
chamber of Vukovar-Sirmyum County in Vukovar,
the meeting was held between representatives of
NDC Osijek, Her Excellency Elisabeth Walaas
Norwegian Ambassador to Croatia and
representatives of local government and
institutions.
In the framework of The New School Project, a seminar called “Education
– the Key to Developing Identity and Intercultural Society” was
held in Lillehammer, Norway from 31st of August to 10th
of September 2006.
Participants at the seminar were representatives of the Parents’ Club
“For the Children of Vukovar”, representatives of Public
Department of the city of Vukovar and of Vukovar-Sirmyum County, teachers and
expert associates from primary schools in Osijek and Vukovar, representative
of the Coordination of Councils of National Minorities of the County, a
representative of Agency for Upbringing and Education, as well as activists
from Nansen Dialogue Centre Osijek.
The goal of the seminar was to connect different segments, organisations,
institutions and social groups in order for them to jointly develop further
steps and work on the realisation of the new intercultural and integrated
school in Vukovar.
Seminar was supported by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway.
The following text was
published in Jutarnji list on Sunday, together with a picture:
Identity and Embrace
Participants with MesićZAGREB- President Mesić has
met with the participants at the seminar "Identity and Embrace", which
will be organised for a sixth time in Fuľine, from 26th of
August to 1st of September, by Nansen Dialogue Centre. High
school pupils of different nationalities from Vukovar region will
participate at the seminar, which goals are a promotion of dialogue, a
development of democratic values and learning to accept differences.
Nansen Dialogue Centre Osijek had
written e response to the article published in Croatian
weekly Globus, on 7th of July 2006, called «Serbian
horror about Croatia by order of European Union». We
wanted to point out some untrue allegations and
unfounded constructions by which article portrayed a
documentary «Croatia: Difficult path to
reconciliation», made by a TV Production house
MOSTRA from Brussels. We also wanted to point out
some facts about the present state of the city of
Vukovar, as the article also covered that issue. Globus
editor kindly published our response in their issue on
27th of July 2006.
Project is assigned for population of former Yugoslavia
that were witnessing inter-ethnic conflicts and are still facing unsolved problems of
post-conflict existance in multiethnic
communities.
View Movie.See more about project.
ACTS programme
At http://www.globalacts.org you can
see the presentation of the ACTS programme (Applied Conflict Transformation Studies).
