On February 13th 2014. Youth for Peace was founded and now four years after, it grew, it became known and it attracted many young people and many new members. Youth for Peace started with couple of young people who shared the same passion for coexistence and desire to make change in their community and whole Bosnian society.
Today, for years after Youth for Peace counts 43 members, 43 young, active, dedicated people who share their passion to live together, to contribute to this society and strenghten its capacities and potentials. This was a reason for us to gather on Saturday, 17th of February 2018. in the restaurant of Jewish community in Sarajevo and celebrate our 4th birthday and all the successes that, together, we managed to achieve.
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In hotel Level Up on Trebević from October 6th until October 8th 2017, Youth for Peace staff retreat was held. This meeting gathered 30 members of the organization, who met there to talk about past activities of Youth for Peace, but also to work on future plans.
The first day of the retreat was reserved to reflect on the past activities, i.e. those that were realized in the period from last year retreat that was also held in October, until this year retreat. Members also made their individual reflections about their participation in past activities, their involvement in the work of Youth for Peace, and they also had a chance to express themselves in which fields of the organization's work they see themselves in the future and how much they want to progress in these fields.
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In cooperation with United Religions Initiative (URI), Youth for Peace organized Interreligious Peace Evening on September 14th 2017 in hotel Europa in Sarajevo. This evening was organized as an ending event of URI Global Leadership Gathering which was held in Sarajevo.
More than 200 people coming from different parts of the world i.e. from North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia gathered on this event. Representatives of different religious communities and traditions, government representatives, civil society representatives, both local ones and international ones, Youth for Peace partners and friends attended this evening.
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In the period of September 9th – September 15th 2017, in hotel Saraj in Sarajevo, URI Global Leadership Gathering was held. Youth for Peace was host and co-organizer of this event.
More than 100 people from different parts of the world, from all continents, representing various religious communities and traditions were present on this meeting and made Sarajevo a place where representatives of more than 50 countries and nations all over the world gathered at the same time. Participants of this meeting talked about the future of URI as a network that gathers 890 organizations from the whole world, with the accent on the role and importance of these organizations and what they represent for this network.
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