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Dialogue Southeast Europe

Our Mission
Seven members of the FES Dialogue Southeast Europe project team pose for a formal group photo in front of white blinds. In the back row, from left to right, stand Selma Šehović, Saša Vasić, Ema-Džejna Smolo-Zukan, and Harun Cero. In the front row, seated at a wooden table from left to right, are Lejla Garaplija, Sarah Hees-Kalyani, and Jasmina Pirija.
Creator: FES / Admir Kuburović

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).

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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Creator: We Cry for Justice by David Haigh - License: CC BY 2.0

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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Creator: Nel Pavletić / License: Pixel Media d.o.o.

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.

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
Creator: Azra Kadic

Socio-Ecological Transformation in SEE

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

Latest Publications

  • Publication
  • Publication Progressive Peace Policy

Shaping a Common Security Agenda for Southeast Europe

The two-day conference, entitled “Shaping A Common Security Agenda For Southeast Europe - New Approaches And Shared Responsibilities”, took place on September 5 and 6 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The conference covered some of the key aspects of...

  • Publication
  • Publication Social and Economic Justice

Reforms of Public Services

The regional office of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), in Zagreb in cooperation with the Budapest office of FES, organized in Budapest in October 2003 a workshop on the issue of public services on the local and regional level. The...

  • Publication
  • Publication Social Democratic Politics and Values

Economic Development on the Local and Regional Level

The publication Economic Development on the Local and Regional Level is the result of a workshop held in Zagreb in March 2003, organized by the Zagreb office of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES). During the workshop, experts of the various...

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  • Publication Social and Economic Justice

Balkan Youth: Reflecting the Past & Facing the Future

The project executed from May 2001 to May 2002 gave the chance to 60 young people to experience the charms of intercultural learning. We are proud to have been able In the project to see young people becoming active citizens and...

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  • Publication Social and Economic Justice

The Roma population in South Eastern Europe

Within its regional project Conflict prevention and integration politics — Promoting multiethnic coexistence, Friedrich Ebert Foundation began, in 2000, collecting material in order to edit a hand-book in the German language "Verdammt...

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  • Publication Social and Economic Justice

National Minorities in South-East Europe

The publication on National Minorities in South-East Europe. Legal and Social Status at Local Level is the result of a workshop in Belgrade/Yugoslavia in May 2002, organised by the Zagreb office of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in the...

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  • Publication Social Democratic Politics and Values

International Conference European Standards and Ombudsman Institutions in Southeast Europe

The International Conference "European Standards and Ombudsman Institutions in Southeast Europe" organized jointly by the Center for the Study of Democracy and Friedrich Ebert Foundation was aimed to present and facilitate the process of...

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Constitutional Reorganization of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Zagreb office of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) continued its activities in the frame of the regional project of FES "Local Self-Government and Decentralization in South-East Europe" with another workshop in Sarajevo/Bosnia and...

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Executive and Legislative at the Local Level: Structure and Interrelation in Countries of South East Europe

The Zagreb office of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) continued its activities in the frame of the regional project of FES "Local Self-Government and Decentralization in South-East Europe" with another workshop in Sarajevo/Bosnia and...

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Employment and Labour-Market Policy in South Eastern Europe

The countries of the South-Eastern-Europe are facing the enormous challenge of transforming their economies and political systems while at the same time preparing for the integration into the European Union. Furthermore, tensions and...