UN KOSOVO TRUST BUILDING FORUM



Representatives of KGSC participated in UN Kosovo Trust Building Forum. About 120 Kosovo leaders, representing a wide range of civic and professional sectors came together under United Nations auspices to discuss avenues of cooperation and joint work to build greater trust between Kosovo’s diverse communities, and set forth a platform for future action in multiple fields.

The two days of intensive meetings and debates, held in Slovenian capital Ljubljana from May 6 to 8, followed two months' preparatory work by Kosovo-based focus groups, covering six main thematic areas: good governance, access to justice, media and communication, economic empowerment and environment, education, and inter-religious trust-building. Cross cutting issues also included human rights, women's empowerment and youth and language rights.

The forum was organised to capitalise on the enormous capacity and experience that resides in municipal, community, religious, civil society, youth and academic leaders and collectively assess how to improve trust-building between and within communities, the population and its elected local representatives. In strenghtening this endeavour, the United Nations system, together with its partners from the EU and OSCE, can help to channel and coordinate support when appropriate.

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