Alida Vračić, Populari’s executive director, took part High – Level Roundtable meeting on Constitutional Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina” that was held on December 1-2, 2008. in Sarajevo, BiH. A roundtable discussion was organized in Sarajevo in December 2008 where local and international experts were invited to reflect on the way forward mainly in procedural terms, i.e., the question of how to build and drive and constitutional reform process that would, on the one hand, involve all major stakeholders but, on the other one, would avoid pitfalls that led to the failure of previous attempts at reform. The event was successful in attracting significant attention and involvement in both the…

PILPG (The Public International Law & Policy Group) in Bosnia and Herzegovina on August 15, 2013 organized a workshop on the participatory constitutional reform process in Iceland that was held in Sarajevo and attended by Populari’s researcher Katarina Cvikl. Silja Omarsdottir of University of Iceland first spoke about the Icelandic socio-economic context and the problem with the Icelandic constitution.  She then shared the experience from their attempt to reform the constitution with the participation of citizens. During the debate with 12 NGO representatives, Valery Perry of the PILPG drew lessons for constitutional reform in BiH. The discussion found that although the two countries are very much different, the internal political dynamics…

Throughout 2012, starting in February, Populari’s team of policy researchers, Vesna Malenica and Vedrana Čović, participated in TRAIN – Think Tanks Providing Research and Advice through Interaction and Networking Programme. The Programme aims to foster policy dialogue between think tanks and political actors in the Western Balkans and offers organizations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia training and networking opportunities. Listen to a little more detailed account of what programme founder Dr. Cornelius Adebahr has to say about TRAIN and its impact on the region in the video clip here.  As Adebahr said, through a series of workshops participating researchers work on writing policy papers and…