UWC-IB initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina remains a formidable challenge to the idealism and leadership of the international community. The Dayton Peace Agreement of November 1995, which ended the Bosnian war and established the current constitutional set-up, was unable to make provision for education. As a result, education—the crucial building block of a functional civil society—has remained deeply divided with three curriculums (the Serb, the Muslim-Bosniak and the Croat), separate classes in the same building and young people the continuing victims of religious-nationalistic politics.

The aim of this joint initiative between the United World Colleges (UWCs) and the International Baccalaureate® (IB) is to contribute to the integration of the three ethno-religious communities in the post-conflict development of Bosnia and Herzegovina through international education.

A conference was held in Sarajevo on 27–28 October 2005 on the theme "The challenge to international secondary education of post-war reconstruction: the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina".

For further information, visit the initiative's website uwc-ibo.org.