Dialogue Southeast Europe

Our Mission

After more than two decades of engagement in southeastern Europe, the FES recognizes that the challenges and problems still facing this region can best be resolved through a shared regional framework. Our commitment to advancing our core interests in democratic consolidation, social and economic justice and peace through regional cooperation, has since 2015 been strengthened by establishing an infrastructure to coordinate the FES' regional work out of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: the Regional Dialogue Southeast Europe (Dialogue SOE).

Team and Contact

To that end, Dialogue SOE provides analysis of shared challenges in the region and develops suitable regional programs and activities in cooperation with the respective FES offices. Our work is conducted in close cooperation with colleagues and partners across the region. Activities are jointly implemented and overseen by either an FES office or Dialogue SOE. Furthermore, we integrate our regional work into joint initiatives with our colleagues in Berlin and Brussels. We aim to inform and be informed by the efforts of both local and international organizations in order to further our work in southeastern Europe as effectively as possible.

Our regional initiatives are advanced through three broad working lines:

Our website provides information about individual projects within each of these working lines, past events, and future initiatives.

Our Areas of Work

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Social Democratic Politics and Values

Dialogue SOE is committed to advancing social democratic policies and values in southeastern Europe. Our work in this field is based upon youth exchange and political academy programs.

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Social and Economic Justice

Substantive democratic governance practices are rooted in fair and equitable economic arrangements. Social justice, more broadly, is intrinsic to the regional agenda the FES advances through its respective offices and individual projects.

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Progressive Peace Policy

Peace and stability initiatives represent a decades-long cornerstone of FES work in southeastern Europe. Recent events have only reaffirmed the centrality of southeast European stability within the broader continental security paradigm.

Socio-Ecological Transformation in SEE

The FES Dialogue Southeast Europe aims to address social challenges in climate and energy policy in the region.

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Publication Social Democratic Politics and Values

Decentralizing Government: Problems and Reform Prospects in South-East Europe

The publication on Decentralisation of Government is the result of a workshop in Ljubljana/Slovenia in March 2002, organised by the Zagreb office of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and the Urban Planning Institute in Ljubljana in the...

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Local Self Government and Decentralization in South-East Europe

In the context of the Stability Pact for South-East Europe and in cooperation with national institutions the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) has initiated a regional project concerning the situation and the reforms of self-government and...

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The Interreg Model Practical Experience in Crossborder Co-operation

The publication on the The interreg model „Practical Experience in Cross Border Co-Operation Programmes“ is the result of the workshop in Timisora/Romania, end of July 2001, organised by the Zagreb and Timisora office of Friedrich Ebert...

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Financing Local Self Government: Case Studies from Germany, Slovenia and Croatia

The publication on financing local government is the result of the workshop in Zagreb end of June 2001, organized by the Zagreb office of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in the frame of its regional project ”Local Self-Government and...

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Citizens' Participation in Local Self-Government: Experiences of South-East European Countries

The publication of Citizens’ Participation in Local Self-Government is the result of the workshop in Sarajevo/Bosnia and Herzegovina (end of September 2001), organised by the Zagreb and Sarajevo office of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung within...

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Publication Social and Economic Justice

Addressing Emengercy: Welfare State Reform in South East Europe

The publication is the result of the first phase of the project which resulted in ll case studies in all the Balkan countries (including studies about Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo) and their comparative debates in three regional...

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