Democratization Slavica Đukic´-Dejanovic´, the Speaker of the Serbian Parliament, listens as Ambassador Janez Lenarcˇicˇ, the Director ODIHR speaks at the presentation of an assessment report on the lawmaking and legislative process in the Republic of Serbia, Belgrade, 7 February 2012. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic) modes of liability and co-operation, and mutual legal assistance for more than 100 Bosnian judges, prosecutors and lawyers. These training events were based on the “International Criminal Law Training Curriculum”, developed as a part of the War Crimes Justice P ­ roject, which ensured that the training seminars met the training needs of war crime legal practitioners. These activities were conducted by ODIHR, in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the International Criminal Tribunal for Ex-Yugoslavia, the Criminal Defence Section and the Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Centre in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Election Dispute Resolution Timely, fair and effective resolution of electoral disputes can ease political tensions and reduce potential conflicts. In follow-up 26 ODIHR Annual Report 2012 to recommendations by Election Observation Missions, ODIHR assists participating States in fostering access to justice and effective legal remedies for election-related disputes in accordance with OSCE commitments. In Kyrgyzstan, ODIHR brought together national stakeholders and international experts in the area of electiondispute resolution on 29 May in Bishkek, thus piloting a series of roundtable consultations to follow up on the recommendations of ODIHR Election Observation Mission reports related to electiondispute resolution. The roundtable in Bishkek was organized in close co-ordination with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, the Central Election Commission of the Kyrgyz Republic, IFES and the UNDP Kyrgyz Elections Support Project. It gathered more than 50 experts from these institutions and several other organizations with the aim to present and discuss election-dispute resolution recommendations from the latest ODIHR Election Observation Mission Final Reports, legal reviews undertaken jointly with the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe and relevant international standards. The roundtable thus offered a platform for discussion on ways to improve election-dispute resolution in the Kyrgyz Republic. Strengthening Capacity for Legislative Reform Legislation can only be implemented properly if it is drafted in a clear and concise manner. In addition, it should reflect the main parameters of international human rights instruments and of commitments that States have entered into. Decisions to conduct legal reform are ordinarily taken at the highest levels of government, especially in