Patriotism and nationalism were discussed at the Third Socrates Cafe in Zenica on November 6th, 2019. The facilitator was Bernard Harbaš, Doctor of Philosophy. Participants disagreed about the rationality of these terms. Some of them find it irrational to be a patriot and identify only with inhabitants of the planet Earth, and they think that other identities are socially conditioned and imposed. For others, patriotism is loyalty to the homeland and is a universal category. In addition, there were those who have stayed on the question of who can standardize and define what patriotism is.

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Azra Imširović, politologist from Sarajevo, talked with young people in Mostar about topic "What is a gender of God?" at Second Socrates Cafe which was held on Octobar 31, 2019. Participants agreed that because of the limited human perspective, God is unthinkable, but it is clear that he did not make distinction between men and women in creation.

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''Who says that God exists at all?'' was the question that one participant asked on the 30th of October 2019 on the Socrates Cafe in Tuzla about the topic: ''What is a Gender of God?'' that was facilitated by Azra Imširović.
The participants thought that before all there must be enquired the existence of God in general and that the difference between sex and gender must be acknowledged to the many, and then finally we could enquire why has God been shown in masculine gender.

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''Have previous societies been questioning / in need to question the gender of God?'' was the question being inquired on the 24th of October 2019 at the second Socrates Cafe at the Kamerni Teatar in Sarajevo, inspired by the What is a gender of God? theme. The facilitator was Nikola Vučić. Participants were questioning the limits of gender of the metaphysical unthinkable subject and why God is in the hands of male readership and interpretation. Some of the participants pointed out that the official institutions do not allow to be said She for God even though it is said that "he neither gave birth nor was born". Instead of a conclusion, new questions have arisen, such as reflecting on the fact that the metaphysical slides beyond the limits of language and, as such, serves as an ideological apparatus.
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On 23rd of October 2019 in Zenica was held the second Socrates Cafe about the topic What is a gender of God?. The facilitator was Nikola Vučić. The participants were the youth of Zenica who were inquiring a gender of God - from the interpretation to the social practice embodied into a hierarchical disbalance. So the dominant questions were How much is God a thinkable category? Why has God always a gender in the interpretation of the sacred texts - it is always He? Why and how have scholars portrayed God for centuries? Why is God of the masculine gender in the language? The participants ended the inquiring process with the thesis that a woman has being stigmatized by the distorted image of God and that all evil is being done in the name of the God and that a new repeated reading of the sacred texts is necessary.
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The first Socrates Cafe was held in Mostar on October 17, 2019. The theme of this cafe was "Freedom" while the facilitation was led by Merima Jasarević, who is professor at the Faculty of Education at the "Džemal Bijedić" University in Mostar. Participants were young people and students who enquired pluralized aspects of freedom - from discursive practices to internal motives embodying emotion.

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On the 16th of October, 2019 there was the first Socrates Cafe held in Tuzla in the Coffee Zone about the theme "I know that I know nothing". The cafe was facilitated by Sead Fetahagić. The attendees questioned what we generally could know for sure. Considering that knowledge is constantly being upgraded, we cannot be sure that what we know today will be relevant in a few years.

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On 10th October 2019 was held the Socrates Cafe in Kamerni Teatar 55 in Sarajevo. In this honour, Haris Cerić, professor from the Faculty of Political Sciences, sang and played the famous song from Beatles - ''Yesterday'' and by this way opened the Cafe.
The topic was ''I know that I know nothing'' and was facilitated by Elmana Cerić who is professor of Philosophy. The participants were university and high school students and those who have graduated but stil enjoy philosophy.
The participants were inquiring who has the right to decide what is truth. They got answers by consulting their own experience but so with the scientific facts.
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Socrates Café are gatherings around the world where people from different backgrounds get together and exchange philosophical perspectives based on their experiences, using the version of the Socratic Method developed by founder Christopher Phillips.
Organized by TPO Foundation, the first Socrates Cafe held 9th October in Zenica. Professor Spahija Kozlić, who talked about the meaning famous sintagma ''I know that I know nothing'' (ipse se nihil scire id unum sciat), facilitated the Cafe. During the sesson more than 35 young people were inquiring the concepts of knowledge, lie and truth.
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TPO Foundation organizes Socrates Cafes in Sarajevo, Mostar, Tuzla and Zenica. There is no argumentation nor debate in Socrates Cafes, but revealing and questioning the phenomena by using Socratic method. Philosophy became an elite science again so TPO Foundation wants to get it back to the streets, cafes and other places that are open for every person willing to be included into the community of the social phenomena inquiry.

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Regarding the Human Rights Day, the TPO Foundation is announcing THE COMPETITION and invites all interested students from 5th to 9th grade of primary school (category 1) and high school students (category 2) from all over Bosnia and Herzegovina to apply for the best video competition on the topic: GRATITUDE.
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In the TOT Training sequence, the key questions were how to face the contemporary controversal and peripheral topics and how to start the conversation and dialogue between different perspectives. On 22nd of September 2019, the third TOT training about strengthening the intercultural and multireligious teaching competencies was held in Sarajevo. Participants were social sciences professors. They have presented their own intercultural continuum by which they showed what is the proper way of getting rid of monocultural perspective and how to enter the intercultural perspective.

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ERSTE Foundation published its second report about CSO in Central and Eastern Europe, including Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Civil society and its organizations play an important social, political and economic role in democratic countries. The existence of a vivid civil society is an indicator of well-functioning democracies that give space to the full variety of different opinions, concerns and solutions. Civil society organizations (CSOs) are often established where a particular social or political concern emerges. By combining a mix of various public and private resources - such as public funds, private donations, voluntary work and membership fees - they are often a source of social innovation.

The report is available at:
http://www.erstestiftung.org/en/
publication/civil-society-in-central-and-eastern-europe-monitoring-2019/

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''I am a pedagogue, not a magician'' was the message of teaching assistant Đenita Tuce for the participants of the Second Pedagogy Summer School that was held from 30.8. to 1.9.2019 in Sarajevo for the pedagogues and teachers from three Cantons: Herzegovina-Neretva, Central Bosnia and Sarajevo, as a part of ''Peer and Gender Based Violence'' Project. There are too many challenges but only through common effort of the teachers and pedagogues, parents and children we can find solutions for the violence rising problem in BiH as well as in the world.

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Dialogue, peace and understanding are being founded in a way of strenghtening our intercultural and interreligious competencies, what actually was the subject of the first two-days training for professors. On 17, 18, 19 and 20 of August 2019, TPO Foundation has organized the training as a part of EMIL (Empowerment of Multireligious and Intercultural Learning) programme about strenghtening the intercultural teaching competencies in coordination with the Ministries of education, science, culture and sport of 5 cantons: Herzegovina – Neretva, Central Bosnia, Tuzla, Zenica – Doboj and Sarajevo that suggested those professors. Professors from those cantons were the attendants of the training. The coach persons were experienced coaches Ana Marija and Otto Raffai.
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Dialogue, peace and understanding are being founded in a way of strenghtening our intercultural and interreligious competencies, what actually was the subject of the first two-days training for professors. On 15 and 16 of August 2019, TPO Foundation has organized the training as a part of EMIL (Empowerment of Multireligious and Intercultural Learning) programme about strenghtening the intercultural teaching competencies in coordination with the Ministries of education, science, culture and sport of 5 cantons: Herzegovina – Neretva, Central Bosnia, Tuzla, Zenica – Doboj and Sarajevo that suggested those professors. Professors from those cantons were the attendants of the training. The coach persons were professors Sedžida Hadžić and Zilka Spahić Šiljak.
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The book launch was held in Sarajevo on july 01, 2019 in the hotel Bristol to promote the book The Bosnian Labyrinth: Culture, Gender and Leadership, edited by professor Zilka Spahić Šiljak who is also an author of the book together with co-authors: Suada Penava and Jasna Kovačević. The book is based on the three-year long research conducted with leaders in politics and business in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Professor Melika Husić-Mehmedović from the School of Economics in Sarajevo, Mrs. Dženita Zirdum, president of the Regional Associations of business women and  psychologist Srđan Puhalo.
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TPO Foundation invites you for a book launch: "Bosnian Labyrinth: culture, gender and leadership". The book is edited by Zilka Spahić Šiljak and she shares authorship with Suada Penava and Jasna Kovačević. The book appeared as the result of research conducted with Bosnian-Herzegovinian leaders in politics and business from 2015 to 2018.
The book launch wil take place 01.07.2019. at 18:00 - hotel Bristol, Fra Filipa Lastrića 2, Sarajevo.

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On 18 and 19 May 2019, at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Tuzla, the TPO Foundation held the fourth and final personal development training, led by coach Amr Delic. Participants were members of Our Voice Association, students of the University of Tuzla, as well as a few young high school students who showed an extraordinary interest in training where the coach said to the participants that they are more courageous than they think.

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