Inter-religious trust-building

Recommendations

1. Encourage government to adopt Law on Restitution and Law on Religious Freedom

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2. Increase coordination between municipalities and religious communities to restore and maintain damage/destroyed graveyards and religious heritage sites. Municipalities should allocate more financial resources for the maintenance of graveyards;

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3. Publically condemn all security incidents affecting religious cultural heritage sites and undertake timely outreach activities with the aim of reassuring affected communities;

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4. Religious communities should openly support rebuilding/reconstruction of damaged and destroyed religious heritage sites; and building new ones;

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5. Religious leaders should actively engage in request in resolving the fate of missing persons;

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6. Traditional practice is prevailing over the Law on inheritance / Women are disadvantaged in the process of property inheritance / Religious leaders should play a role in promoting women rights;

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7. Religious communities should jointly advocate against domestic violence and in promotion of women rights, thus also targeting patriarchal norms in the society;

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8. Religious communities should be more gender aware, respect for women rights, property rights;

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9. Media organizations should engage in comprehensive communication and promotion of inter-faith dialogue and stress positive achievements of inter-religious cooperation;

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10. Media should refrain from portraying religious groups as political instruments;

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11. Religious communities should be more transparent toward the media;

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12. Encourage government to take into consideration religious communities’ amendments proposed on the Law on Religious Freedom;

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13. Media and religious communities should engage in the common platform to promote positive stories;

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14. Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s) should coordinate its activities with religious communities, and use good practices from inter-faith dialogue to increase overall inter-community understanding;

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15. Implementation of court decisions regarding resolving the issues of contested religious community property;

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16. Municipal authorities should promote programs that raise awareness on building inter-religious trust ;

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17. Religious communities should effectively work on sustainable programs that counter violent extremism and nationalist political rhetoric as well as different kinds of segregation;

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18. Educate children on other communities and religious groups and on the multicultural and multi-confessional aspect of Kosovo through the formal education systems. Subsequently, organize regular workshops for pupils from, primary and secondary schools, on tolerance and non-discrimination.

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19. Direct informal and formal communication between religious communities;

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20. Prevent and manage incidents with religious connotation from escalating into larger conflict;

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21. Increase number of joint meetings and public lectures of religious community leaders with the aim of improving inter-community understanding and serve as a good example of inter-community cooperation and educate younger generations on the importance of religious heritage;

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