4.2 Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Gender-based and Domestic Violence On 1 and 2 December, the Mission organized a training on gender equality for school pedagogues in Una-Sana Canton (C1) to ensure a basic understanding of gender perspectives and to assist school management in better identifying and addressing gender-based stereotyping and bias in daily school life. School teachers were reminded of the significance of gender perspectives in legislation and of their practical implementation in educational institutions. On 5 December, the Mission and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) Gender Centre organized a meeting of the Cantonal Co-ordination Body on Prevention and Protection from Domestic Violence in C1 to evaluate the current progress and future steps regarding implementation of the Protocol on Co-operation in Cases of Domestic Violence. The meeting gathered key partners and institutions from C1 including ministries, social welfare centres, police, and mental health centres to discuss methods for improving co-operation and the work done by the Co-ordination Body. Hate Crime On 17 May, the Mission organized a local hate crimes event in Prijedor involving representatives from all community stakeholders to discuss issues related to adequate responses to bias motivated incidents and hate crimes in the local community. The meeting was attended by 18 participants from local government, religious leaders, civil society organizations (CSOs), the police and the judiciary. A 2-day training on hate crimes for 24 in-service police inspectors/investigators from FBiH and Brčko District BiH (DBiH) was organized by the Mission on 19 and 20 May in Sarajevo. This training was organized in co-operation with the FBiH Police Academy and in accordance with its hate crimes training curriculum. A Hate Crimes Peer-to-Peer meeting between Prosecutors and Police, in co-operation with entity Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Centres, was held in Banja Luka on 21 June for 48 participants from Banja Luka, Prijedor, and Doboj, as well as from C1, Posavina and Central Bosnia Cantons. On 29 June, the Mission organized a local hate crimes event in Višegrad, involving representatives from all community stakeholders in a discussion on issues related to adequately responding to bias motivated incidents and hate crimes in the local community. The meeting was attended by 15 representatives from the police, judiciary, municipal authorities and CSOs, and was organized as a response to an increase in the number of biased incidents that the Mission observed in this area. On 25 August, the Mission presented an overview of hate crimes and methods of prevention at the Brčko District police summer school – “Citizens and Police”, for 27 high school and faculty students. A Hate Crimes Peer-to-Peer meeting between Prosecutors and Police, in co-operation with entity Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Centres, was held in Mostar on 26 October for 17 participants from Mostar, Trebinje, Livno and Zenica. The Mission continued co-operation with the NGO ‘Sarajevo Open Centre’ (SOC) in the delivery of a training of trainers for police in FBiH on hate crimes. The training was held in three sessions, on 8 and 9 September, 29 and 30 September and 13 and 14 October in Jahorina for 23 trainees in total. This training was implemented under the umbrella of the two-year Fighting Hate Crimes Project funded by the Netherlands, which was awarded to the SOC and has been implemented in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to BiH. Table-top exercise on VERLT 50 From 1 to 3 March, the Mission, in participants recognized how Strategy for Preventing and co-operation with the BiH Ministry important the concept of early Combatting Terrorism 2015-2020. of Security, conducted a table-top identification is in the prevention Over 70 participants attended the exercise. This exercise focused of violent extremism. The event event, which was funded through on practical recommendations concluded with the presentation the Counter Terrorism Bureau of the to address challenges caused of recommendations to be U.S. State Department. by violent extremism. Through a considered by authorities in BiH number of simulation exercises, in the implementation of their