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Round table: "With understanding towards trust - Post war renewal of living together in Vukovar", Vukovar, December 7-8, 2007 - (Supported by:IKV PAX CHRISTI )


With three-year project "How to Reach Truth?" that the Forum of Tuzla Citizens implements with the support of IKV Pax Christi from The Netherlands, on December 7-8, 2007, in Vukovar was held the round table "With Understanding towards Trust - Post-war Renewal of Living Together in Vukovar".
The basic aim of the round table was to perceive the issues of the post-war renewal of the living together in Vukovar from the perspective of the local politicians, representatives of the religious communities, media, civil society organisations, and citizens. Besides the participants from Vukovar, the invitation letters were sent to the guests from Zagreb, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
 
Public tribune: "Improving of the Legislation in the Filed of the Local Self-government", Banja Luka, Hotel Bosna - November 20, 2007 - (Supported by NED)

On November 20, 2007, in Banja Luka was held the last public tribune "Improving of the Legislation in the Filed of the Local Self-government", with the support of the partner-organisation hCa Banja Luka.
Representatives of the legislative and executive authorities of RS, authorities of City of Banja Luka, Mrkonjic Grad, Prijedor, Srbac, Laktasi, as well non-governmental organisations, and political parties were invited to the public tribune. Media were also informed about the holding of the public tribune, however, due to the current political situation they did not respond to the invitation.

Speakers at the public tribune in Banja Luka were:
- Mr Vehid Sehic, lawyer, the President of FTC and
- Mr Sahbaz Djihanovic, lawyer, the member of the expert team

 
Public tribune: "Improvement of the Legislation in the Field of the Local Self-government"
Tuzla, Hotel Tuzla, Congress Hall, October 10, 2007 -
(supported by NED)

The fourth public tribune on improvement of legislation in the field of local self-government and initiative for passing of the Law on Local Self-government at the state level was held in Tuzla on October 10, 2007.

Twenty participants responded on the FTC's invitation. The good respond of the participants from the neighbouring municipalities from RS (Lopare, Sekovici, Zvornik, etc.) should be stressed.

The speakers were:
- Mr Sahbaz Djihanovic and
- Mr Vehid Sehic

 
Public tribune: "Improvement of the Legislation in the Field of the Local Sef-Government",
Bihac, Municipal Council hall, September 21, 2007 -
(Supported by NED)

According o the plan of the project activities, preparations for holding of the fifth public tribune in Bihac started in September.
The whole project, which is aimed to improve legislation in the field of the local self-government and to initiate passing of the Law on Local Self-Government at the state level, was completely supported by the Mayor of Bihac Municipality, Mr Hamdija Lipovaca and he offered himself, as the Mayor, to be the host of this public tribune. This shows that the initiative that we started through this project has great interest and importance for all local communities and their citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The public tribune was held on September 21, 2007 at 11.00 am, in the hall of the Municipal Council Bihac.

 
Round table: "How to reach the truth", Velika Kladusa, June 30 - July 1, 2007
(Supported by: IKV PAX CHRISTI)

On June 30 and July 1, 2007, in Velika Kladusa, Forum of Tuzla Citizens organised first round table within the project "How to Reach the Truth" with the support from IKV-Pax Christi. The basic aim of the project is to ensure stabile foundation for building of peaceful, non-conflict and prosperity future of the people of Velika Kladusa region through facing with the past, in this case through dialogue at the round table. Already in March 2007, FTC selected co-organiser and the host of the round table - Association "Centre for Democratisation and Tolerance" from Velika Kladusa, led by Mr Husein Murtic. In period April - June 2007, CDT prepared materials for the round table and introduction to the round table. In addition, CDT lobbied members of different options, victims of the recent war and representatives of the authorities to respond to the open discussion. In the preparation period, FTC representatives visited Velika Kladusa twice and together with CDT planned the round table.
 
Public tribune held in Trebinje on June 9, 2007
(Supported by: NED, Mott Foundation)


The public tribune in Trebinje was held on June 9, 2007 in the hall of the Assembly of Trebinje municipality at 12.00 o'clock, with the assistance of the partner organisation the League for Protection of Private Property and Human Rights from Trebinje.

The speakers at this tribune were Mr Vehid Sehic, lawyer, the FTC President and Mr Sahbaz Djihanovic, lawyer.

Mr Djihanovic and Mr Sehic informed the participants of the tribune about the aims of the project that FTC wants to realise, existing legal regulative related to the local government and European Charter and its obliging regulation for each signatory-country.

 
The third Public tribune held in Mostar on June 8, 2007
(Supported by: NED)


The third public tribune "Improvement of the legislation in the local government" was held in hotel "Bristol" in Mostar, at 11.00 o'clock, with the organisational assistance of the partner organisation "Cupido" from Mostar.

Speaker at this tribune were Mr Vehid Sehic, Lawyer, FTC President and Prof. Mirko Pejanovic from Sarajevo University.

Mr Sehic as the FTC President, the organisation which implements the project, informed participants with the organisation's previous activities related to affirmation of the rights from the field of the local government. He also informed participants about basic aims and activities of the project that are currently in the process of realisation, as well about the results that want to be achieved.

 
Public tribune "Legislation Improvement in the Filed of the Local Government" - Livno, Forum Business Centre, May 25, 2007 (Supported by: NED, Mott Foundation)


The second public tribune was held in Livno, in the hall of the Forum Business Centre, with the support of partner organisation "Centre for Civic Cooperation Livno", which is also dealing with the issue of the local government in the past few years, both at the local and cantonal level.

According to our information, the process of development of the local government in this canton is bit slowly. Namely, pre-war ways of organisation of the citizens in the neighbourhood associations do not exist any more, and their renewal and development of the local government if yet to take hold, although the new Federal Law on the Principles of the Local Government is imposing it.

 
Public tribune "Improvement of the Legislative in the Field of the Local Government" - May 24, 2007, Sarajevo (Supported by NED)


The first public tribune within this project was held on May 24, 2007 in Sarajevo, at 11 o'clock, in the hall of the hotel "Hollywood".
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in BiH is the partner organisation is Sarajevo which is supporting this project and assisted FTC in the organisation of the public tribune.

The speakers at the public tribune were members of the expert team - Mr Vehid Sehic, lawyer, the President of FTC and Mr Sahbaz Djihanovic, lawyer, former deputy president of F BiH.

 
FTC held the PRESS conference in Sarajevo - April 23, 2007


On Monday, April 23, 2007, at 11 o'clock, Forum of Tuzla held the press conference in the Oval Hall of the Assembly of the City of Sarajevo.

The President of FTC, Mr Vehid Sehic, informed the journalists about the aims and the purpose of the project, which will be implemented at the whole territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the future period.

 
Conference "Inter-religious Understanding" 8 - 9, December 2006. Trebinje


The basic motive behind the idea of holding of the conference in Trebinje is the term very well known in West, but, unfortunately, insufficiently known and used in Bosnia and Herzegovina - 'inter-religious understanding'. As one of the significant participants (fra Ivo Markovic) of the event had said '...we in BiH, in ecumenism, have learned and got used to the word dialogue, and the term of inter-religious understanding is the next step in the dialogue directed toward coexistence'.
That kind of inter-religious understanding was the topic of two-day dialogue among the members of several religions who have responded to the invitation and participated in very constructive conversation.
 
International round table "How to reach the truth" 24.11.2006 - Tuzla


The idea of organising of the international round table "How to Reach the Truth?" came as the result of the IKV/Pax Christi meeting with partner organisations from Western Balkans, which was held in Mavrovo (FYR Macedonia).

The international round table is aimed to reaffirm need for establishment of truth, prevent politicisation of material evidences about the crimes committed in the wars at the territory of former Yugoslavia, as well to determine the role of non-governmental organisations and media in the process of finding the answer to the question "how to reach the truth?".

Forum of Tuzla Citizens, together with IKV, selected the particular groups of people that should be invited to the round table. We agreed that participants should come mostly from the non-governmental organisations from BiH, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and Macedonia in order to have regional approach to the subject. It was also decided to invite professors from different faculties (like Philosophy Faculty, Faculty of Political Sciences, etc.), as well representatives of different organisations that are dealing with missing persons and truth and reconciliation and representatives of media in order to have multidisciplinary approach to the subject.

 
 


 
 
 
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