hrough their inclusion in various social, cultural and sport activities.
The Strategy recommends a creative approach regarding protection of individual and collective memory. Namely, it proposes creation of “sites of conscience”, through which emotional and pedagogical aspects of memorials will be secured and strengthened.
The key objectives of the proposed approach are citizens’ participation, pluralism of ideas, protection of democratic values, and fostering culture of dialogue for the purpose of developing societal, institutional and legislative potential for human rights protection, as well as for conflict prevention.
However, in order to define an appropriate approach for BiH the Strategy proposes initiating an open and inclusive consultation process to get recommendations on how to organize such projects. At the end, the Strategy recognizes the efforts of civil society in this field and suggests measures for institutionalization of their programs.
With the purpose of regaining trust towards institutions and conflict prevention, the Strategy defines solutions which refer to vetting public officials and broad institutional transformation.
In terms of vetting, the Strategy calls for adoption of specific framework legislation that would regulate standards and approaches to the whole screening process. However, the Strategy defines neither the scope of vetting nor institutions where this administrative process should be organized, but instead calls for initiating an open and inclusive consultation process.
When it comes to broad institutional transformation, the Strategy specifically provides measures for:
- Building accountability of institutions through redeveloping internal and external monitoring mechanisms and census and identification;
Institutional independence; and
- Building institutions which will be responsive to citizens’ needs.