The Youth Dialogue Program, in cooperation with its partner organization Reintegration (Reintegracija), organized a one-day seminar on Inter-Religious Youth Dialogue and the Status of Minority Communities in Sandzak, the Presevo Valley and north Kosovo. The seminar was held in the “Tadz” hotel in Novi Pazar on October 29, 2008.

Participants were addressed by Mr. Ramiz Crnišanin (Sandzak Intellectual Circle), Mr. Aladin Imamović (Member of the Cabinet of the Mayor of Novi Pazar, responsible for culture and youth), Mr. Fahrudin Kladičanin (Reintegration), Mr. Aleksandar Stojanović (Center for the Development of Civil-Society, Kosovska Mitrovica), Mr. Vuk Mitrović (Independent Student Union of the University in Kosovska Mitrovica) and Mr. Srđan Vezmar (Executive Director of the Youth Dialogue Program).

The participants also visited institutions of the Islamic community in Novi Pazar: the main office of Mešihat, the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Medresa “Gazi Isa-beg” and the Media Center in Novi Pazar. The participants were hosted by the director of Medresa, Nedžad-ef. Hasanović, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Mr. Mustafa-ef. Fetić and the director of the Media Center, Mr. Hajrudin-ef. Balić.

The seminar was organized as a part of the project “New Generations of Youth for Serbia and Kosovo”, supported by the Embassy of Germany in Serbia and the German Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

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