In March 2008, The Youth Dialogue Programme organized four panel discussions: in Orahovac (7 March), Prizren (8 March), Kosovska Mitrovica (15 March), and Gračanica (29 March). The aim of these discussions was to analyze and identify the biggest problems which young people are dealing with in Kosovo and in the enclaves where members of ethnic-minority communities live.
In the second phase of this project, two training sessions were held at Mt. Brezovica in order to provide young people with certain skills in the field of lobbying and representation of interests of minority communities in Kosovo, which they will apply during the lobby visits to the institutions in Pristina, which itself is scheduled to take place in the end of June and the beginning of July 2008.
The first training session ’’Mechanisms for the protection of human and minority rights in Kosovo’’ was held at Mt. Brezovica from 4-6 April 2008. It was attended by young Serbs, Albanians and Bosniaks from Kosovo and Serbia.

The second training session ’’Developing strategies for lobbying and representation of interests of minority communities in Kosovo’’ was held from 3-6 May 2008 at Mt. Brezovica. During this session, the participants set out to develop a strategy for the protection of interests of minority communities, which will be implemented in the following period by the Youth Dialogue Program and partner organizations at this project.

The project was realized in cooperation with the following organizations: Media Pulse - Leposavić, ELSA -  Kosovska Mitrovica, Zenit - Prizren, and Konak - Orahovac.

The project was supported by Freedom House, with funds provided by USAID.

news archive