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Bucharest , June 28, 2011 Dion van den Berg IKV Pax Christi, the Netherlands

On the necessity of the rehabilitation of the citizen : peacebuilding and EU accession strategy for the Western Balkans. Bucharest , June 28, 2011 Dion van den Berg IKV Pax Christi, the Netherlands. Looking into the future …. … but still haunted by the past.

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Bucharest , June 28, 2011 Dion van den Berg IKV Pax Christi, the Netherlands

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  1. On the necessity of the rehabilitation of the citizen:peacebuilding and EU accessionstrategy for the Western Balkans Bucharest, June 28, 2011 Dion van den Berg IKV Pax Christi, the Netherlands

  2. Lookinginto the future…

  3. … butstillhauntedby the past

  4. Peacebuilding priorities (1):overcoming the economic crisis

  5. Peacebuilding priorities (2):unresolvedterritorial issues

  6. Peacebuilding priorities (3):nationalism

  7. Limits of IPA(instrument pre-accessionassistance) • Lack of facilities to deal with the heritages of the recent wars • Lack of motivationfrom the part of WB governments • Lack of motivationfrom the part of Brussels? • Technical and managerialapproaches • Focus: institutional, top-down reform • Lack of access for small and rural NGO’s

  8. Rehabilitation of the citizen!

  9. Four citizen-centredrecommendations 1. widen the state-building concept 2. more focus on dealingwith the past 3. extra facility for peacebuilding under IPA 4. extra support for peacebuilding outside of IPA

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