Progressive Peace Policy

Peace and stability initiatives represent a decades-long cornerstone of the FES' work in southeastern Europe. Recent events have only reaffirmed the centrality of southeast European stability within the broader continental security paradigm. Both democratization and socio-economic justice are intrinsic aspects of a larger progressive peace policy in the region, but so too are consistent threat assessments and efforts to prevent conflict before it erupts. Preventive approaches, however, do not work without the cooperation of non-state actors. Confidence-building and ‘good neighborly relations’ for instance can only be achieved by including the population at large. By organizing exchange between civil society and decision-makers on equal grounds, Dialogue SOE aims to broaden the discourse on peace and stability in southeastern Europe and to counter the securitization of prevalent narratives from migration to radicalization. 

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Events

13.09.2024 | News, Socio-ecological transformation in SEE, Event

The 2024 Energy Community Summer School took place from July 20-27 in Chisinau, Moldova, bringing together more than forty participants from across…


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09.09.2024 | News, Dealing with the Past, Event

For the fourth time in a row, the Dealing with the Past program organizers, the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation—Dialogue for…


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10.06.2024 | News, Dealing with the Past, Progressive Peace Policy, Event

The program will gather young people from the Western Balkans to attend the Sarajevo Film Festival and tell the story of intercultural dialogue, youth…


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Publications

| Publication, Publication Progressive Peace Policy

Reconciliation is a small human gesture. It is imperfect, clumsy, and timid, but it is undoubtably a human gesture. Reconciliation is a journey on…


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| Publication, Publication Progressive Peace Policy, Publication Political Trends & Dynamics

The Western Balkans remain the site of numerous, protracted bilateral disputes. Most of these concern competing claims to territory, identity, …


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| Publication, Publication Progressive Peace Policy

Most of Albanian citizens asked in a national poll in 2013 about whether Greece would like to see Albania in the European Union answered no, an answer…


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Dialogue Southeast Europe

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