CIVITAS instructs teachers

Seminars

Sarajevo, 02 August, 1997(AIM) - The summer seminars of CIVITAS ( Center for civic education) in B&H was formally opened at the Faculty of Criminologist studies. This form of educating the teachers is carried out by USA Media Agencies, USA Ministries of Education and European Council.

The commencement of this year's seminars was attended by Mr. Robert Beecroft, Special US Envoy in Sarajevo, Mr. Christian Hauswirth, Swiss Ambassador in B&H, Mr. Jack Hoar, Center for civic education from California, Ms. Ulriche Schall, from European Council, as well as Ms. Amila Terziå, Project coordinator for European Council.

This year, seminars will be attended by 600 teachers from Sarajevo, Bihaå, Bosanska Krupa, Tuzla, Srebrenik, Travnik, Novog Travnik, Goraºde, Oraþje, µiroki Brijeg, Mostar, Jablanica, Livno, Zenica, Visoko and Tesliå, as well as several towns of Republika Srpska.

Instructors are coming from USA, Europe and B&H, while the goal of the CIVITAS' seminars is, as stressed by Mr. Robert Beecroft, emphasizing the responsibility of teachers for stimulation of democracy in pupils and university students.

"Traveling all around B&H for a year, I became convinced that people are above their leaders, and teachers are to support them. This is a direct way to start tolerating those who we live with and who we sometimes do not understand", said Mr. Beecroft. (end)