Series of OSCE workshops on promotion and implementation of community cohesion action plans starts in Trebinje

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina concluded a workshop for the promotion and implementation of the 2019 Community Cohesion Action Plan on 1 March 2019 in Trebinje.

The workshop gathered over 20 participants from city and local authorities, police, media and civil society organizations clustered around the Coalition against Hate, Security Forum and youth. They discussed the plan’s activities and agreed on future concrete steps for its implementation and promotion within local communities.

The implementation of the Community Cohesion Action Plan will focus on establishing a mechanism for a public response in cases of bias-motivated incidents and the promotion of a more tolerant and open community.

Supported by the Mission, this plan was developed in 2018 by a working group appointed by the mayor. The first document of this kind in BiH, the plan was adopted by the mayor in late November 2018, and has also received support from the City Assembly leaders.

This was the first of three workshops facilitated by the OSCE Mission to BiH, with similar events planned in Nevesinje and Bileca in the coming period.