Balkan Security and Development
Network for Peace, Inter-communal Reconciliation and Human Security (CN4HS)
THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION
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Citizens' Network for Peace, Inter-communal Reconciliation & Human Security (CN4HS) is cross-border project supported by the European Commission and launched in December 2014 by six non-governmental organisations and research institutes from the Balkans and Turkey: the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly – Turkey; the Institute for Regional and International Studies – Bulgaria; SeCons – Serbia; the Youth Resource Centre Tuzla – Bosnia and Herzegovina; the Association for Democratic Prosperity Zid – Montenegro; and the Centre for Research, Documentation and Publication – Kosovo. CN4HS aims to initiate an active network of civil organisations and research communities from different countries to work together for strengthening peace, reconciliation and human security through inter-communal dialogue. The duration of the project is total of four years, divided in two 24-month phases.
The CN4HS’s mission is to identify new parameters of the concept of human security by emphasising on the individuals and the insecurities that affect directly and personally them. We believe that human security is a concept that goes beyond the out-of-date perception of military threats, combining in it different aspect like economic security, environmental security, personal security, political security etc. Our goal is once we have identified the risks for human security such as corruption, ethnic conflicts, human trafficking, vulnerable system of information access to judiciary etc., to advocate for changes which can improve the position of some of the most vulnerable populations.
We pursue our mission via research, evidence based advocacy, networking and lobbying at national, regional and EU level. Noting that the organisations in CN4HS have cultural and organizational differences, it is logically reasoned that each member of the network strives for a change in the security oriented political culture and structure in their respective environment, towards a human centred approach.
