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Regional conference on conscientious objection and civilian service

«To Europe Through Conscientious Objection and Civilian Service», Sarajevo, 20-22 September 2004

Andreas Speck and Bart Horeman participated in this event for War Resisters' International, together with members of WRI's Croatian, Serbian, and Macedonian affiliates.

Documents available in HTML:

• Bart Horeman: Necessity of civil society control and monitoring of the institutional implementation of the right to conscientious objection
• Andreas Speck: Demilitarisation in the global context
• Rachel Brett, QUNO: European and International Standards on Conscientious Objection to Military Service
• Conclusions and summary

Documents available in PDF:

PDF collections of papers from this conference are available in English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BHS). We hope to have HTML versions of the same documents soon.

NB: Each PDF file is between 220 and 350k in size, and the first and last two pages of each file are intentionally left blank.

• EN Regional Standard for Conscientious Objection - standardization of legislation in the countries of the region on the issues of conscientious objection and adjusting of it to the international standards
• BHS Regionalni standard za prigovor savjesti - standardizacija zakonske legislative zemalja regiona po pitanjima prigovora savjesti i prilagoðavanje meðunarodnim preporukama

• EN Comparative study about the existing models of civilian service in the region - future models of civilian service for countries of the region
• BHS Komparativna studija o postojećim modelima civilne službe u regionu - budući modeli civilne službe za države regiona

• EN Evaluation of the needs for joined cooperation of the governmental institutions and civilian society in the process of developing the models concerning conscientious objection and civilian service - monitoring and evaluation
• BHS Evaluacija potreba za zajedničkom saradnjom institucija vlasti i civilnog društva u procesu razvoja modela vezanih za prigovor savjesti i civilnu službu - monitoring i evaluacija

• EN Global and regional efforts in the process of demilitarization - abolition of compulsory military service
• BHS Globalni i regionalni napori u procesu demilitarizacije - ukidanje obaveznog služenja vojnog roka

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CO groups represented at the meeting

Peace Action-Macedonia
Točila 1 A3/23, 75000 Prilep – Macedonia
++389 48 401 888, gamanet@mt.net.mk

Antiwar Campaign Croatia
Medulićeva 17/II, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel./fax: ++385 1 48 48 720, e-mail:ark@zamir.net

Campaign for Conscientious objection in BiH -- Central Office Sarajevo
Muse Ćazima Ćatića 25, 71000 Sarajevo, BiH
Tel/fax: (++387) 33 239 201
info@prigovorbih.org, www.prigovorbih.org

EBCO Balkan
Makedonska 22/II, Belgrade, Serbia
++381 (0) 11 3340 359, office@ebcobalkan.org, www.ebcobalkan.org

Nansen dialogue centre - Montenegro
Vukice Mitrović 881 000 Podgorica
Tel: 081 / 230 681, 081/ 230 646, Fax: 081 / 231 105, info@ndcmn.org, www.nansen-dialogue.net

Regional network for conscientious objection «Objection for Peace»
www.prigovorzamir.org
E-mail: konferencija@prigovorzamir.org

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