CIAO DATE: 04/04

ECMI Civil Society Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Workshop on Media Issues Working Session on Media Issues

Background

The ECMI Civil Society Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina aims to assist local actors in assuming responsibility for democratic governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They are being involved, with the assistance of international experts, in a process of reviewing existing policy on practical issues of concern to all communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and of developing specific policy recommendations to further governance and civil society development within the framework set out by the Dayton Peace Accords (DPA).

The project targets civil society representatives, policy and decision makers in Bosnia and Herzegovina at all levels of governance, and researchers from all national communities. Representatives of international implementing agencies and donors are invited to attend as observers. To launch the Workshop Series, a constitutive meeting was held in June 2001. In addition to outlining an overall agenda for this project, that constitutive session also concerned itself with two broad and substantive issues: governance and media, which served as a foundation for the investigation of more highly specific issues of interest to the participating local actors. This report covers an event held on 24 November 2001 in Sarajevo that followed on from that initial discussion.

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