Peace School is an alternative educational project. For 5 years of war in
Croatia, Schools were held 10 times, in a small village, Mrkopalj, in Gorski
Kotar - an ethnically mixed area. The pupils were elementary school children
from the region, both nations, while their fathers were in war against each
other. The 'teachers' were senior high school pupils and young students. The
leader was Franjo Starcevic, a 70 year old professor. The program was
organized into creative workshops: drama, painting, music, computers, dance...

The 11th Peace School was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia, for the New 1998 Year. The
first one in Yugoslavia was held in Bijela, Montenegro. It had a slightly
changed concept: instead of children, it gathered young people aged 18 to 23;
instead of leaded workshops it acquired more involvement and initiative. It
had a general topic - Human Rights, and a more specific one - "The first
generation of human rights as shown through the media".

Announcement/media release was posted to the syndicate and nettime lists:
http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/0510.html
http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199802/msg00119.html

Report from the event:
http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/0628.html
http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199804/msg00004.html

The 14th Peace School was again held in Yugoslavia, in Kikinda, around New
1999 Year. The topic of this one was Political Rights. I wasn't so much
involved since I was moving to Amsterdam at exactly the same time.

[historical note: it all started for me in '96, on the project Book of War,
with PostPesimists, in Kelokoski, Finland. http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~aasmunda
/postpessimist ]

OpenNet Classroom
http://www.classroom.opennet.org/

Since more then 400.000 young and middle aged people left Serbia in the last
10 years, their parents had to learn how to use the Internet to be able to
communicate with them. Older techniques are too expensive and/or too slow.
Besides learning email, they have also learned how to get information from
www. They can't afford newspapers, magazines, books, exhibitions, and
travel... In this way, they can at least be informed about events and places.
During one year, the Classroom Education Team gave lectures about basic
computer and Internet possibilities to more then 150 people. In cooperation
with the 'University for the Third Age', the American Center and the Soros
fund, they were enabled to use the Internet for one hour a day for free. The
project moved to a specially established 'classroom' just for these purposes,
and a group of the 10 best 'pupils' was trained to become instructors for the
next intake.

Several groups of students from non-technology schools were given basic
courses about the Internet. There is also alternative e-scape usage for
students: finding a job abroad, finding a scholarship, filling in the
application for the Green Card Lottery; help on GRE, TOEFL...

Against Windmills
http://www.protivetrenjaca.opennet.org

Educational program for artists, in Cinema Rex.

'Internet for children'
http://www.skolarac.co.yu/

A two-year long series of articles for elementary school magazine.

'Lotosice'
http://www.connectbooks.com/

In Tuzla, Bosnia, an Internet center was created by Connect humanitarian
agency, for a group of disabled people. 'Lotosice' are now going to enjoy
using new, powerful equipment, to get basic knowledge about computers,
Internet, DTP, book keeping. They will also use the Internet to get in contact
with similar groups in Ex-Yugoslavia and the world, with foundations, with
expatriate friends and relatives, but also, using their knowledge and
equipment, to run small business adequate to their health condition.

Other student activities

Student Protest 96/97
http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~protest96/

University protest 98
http://ups.opennet.org/

Anti War Campaign
http://www.ark.org.yu/

Otpor! (Resistance!)
http://ups.opennet.org/english/otpor/

ETF monkeys
http://www.angelfire.com/ab/etfmonkeys/

Vesna@Manojlov.ic.YU
becha@xs4all.nl
http://www.classroom.opennet.org/~becha/