Stephen B. Heintz at New Policy School Annual Ceremony

6. 9. 2010. Stephen B. Heintz, President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, will be addressing the New Policy School annual ceremony, to be held at the Cultural Centre „Grad“ in Belgrade (Braće Krsmanović 4) on Tuesday, September 7, 2010, at 16 h. At the ceremony organized by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) diplomas will be awarded to the third generation of graduates and a welcoming ceremony organized for the fourth generation of New Policy School students.

Milica Delević, Director of the Serbian European Integration Office, and Danko Runić, Director of the Agency for Cooperation with NGOs and European Harmonization of the City of Belgrade, will also speak at the event.

Marijana Toma, YIHR Steering Committee Chair and Director of Impunity Watch Serbia Office, and Luka Božović, New Policy School graduate, will welcome the new generation of students.

Upon the Diploma Award Ceremony, Jonathan Fanton, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Advisory Trustee, and Eduardo Gonzalez, Director of Truth and Memory Program within the International Centre for Transitional Justice, will deliver introductory lectures in the new school year.

Since 2007. the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) has been organizing the New Policy School (NPS), intended for young, socially engaged people, future decision-makers. NPS is divided into three thematic units: human rights, transitional justice and Euro-integration, in scope of which young people are learning through one-year program about the fundamentals of human rights, mechanisms of uncovering and disseminating facts about the war waged on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, European integration process, as well as creating practical policy proposals. In the course of the previous three years some 200 young people from across Serbia attended NPS, with lectures being delivered in Novi Sad, Niš and Belgrade.

Organization of the previous school year was supported by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the Agency for Cooperation with NGOs and European Harmonization of the City of Belgrade.