OSCE Mission supports multiethnic camps for youth in Kosovo

Over 50 Kosovo Albanian and Kosovo Serb secondary school students from Kamenicë/Kamenica municipality in eastern Kosovo participated in an OSCE Mission-supported multi-ethnic youth camp from 9 to 11 April 2014. The aim of the camp was to provide young people with an opportunity to interact and to overcome any prejudices they might have about one another due to previous conflicts and strained inter-ethnic relations.  

The students, ages 16 to 20, had the opportunity to get to know each other and build trust through sport competitions and exercises on negotiation and advocacy skills. 

This three-day camp held in Dragash/Dragaš in, southern Kosovo, was organized by their home village Local Public Safety Committees from Shipashnicë e Epërme/Gornja Šipasnica and Shipashnicë e Poshtme/Donja Šipasnica. The OSCE helped establish the committees while the Royal Norwegian Embassy funded the event.

A similar youth camp was held from 25 to 27 April 2014 in Peja/Peć for 45 Kosovo Albanian, Kosovo Serb and Kosovo Roma communities from Fushë Kosova/Kosovo Polje municipality.