In the period from the 17th to the 22nd of October Banja Kovljaca in Serbia hosted CCPA´s Regional Seminar on Crime and Conflict Prevention (CCP) using the Sport + School + Police (SSP) initiative. This is the second extensive regional seminar, organized by CCPA, on the SSP initiative within the frame of the Open Fun Football Schools project.
The seminar was attended by a total of 111 people. The attendees included people from Denmark (7), Bosnia and Herzegovina (38), Croatia (12), Kosovo (13), Macedonia (18) and Serbia (23). All participants came from police, social, sport and educational sectors, and several municipality and high police officers were present as well.
The seminar was moderated by independent consultants from Denmark, and the participants also had a chance to hear first-hand information about the SSP initiative in Denmark, from Mr. Ole Lauridsen.
The program for the seminar included interesting lectures and workshops, where participants worked in group by sectors, exploring and discussing the advantages of their profession in terms of dealing with juvenile problems. The workshops also included cross-sectoral discussions, which led to identification of leading problems in contemporary societies, but also strong holds within the formed CCP networks.
The fundamental principles of the CCP-initiative include a change from single sector approaches to a coordinated cross sector intervention, and a change from top-down to bottom-up approaches. It also includes replacing “pointed fingers” with dialogue and cooperation. The fundamental principles of course determine the overall methodology in the CCP-initiative. Or put differently, we wish the concrete CCP-interventions to score on the above principles. Thus, if the interventions are not driven by a coordinated cross sector approach, if the interventions are not approached bottom-up and through dialogue and cooperation processes, we don’t consider it a CCP-intervention.
When speaking about concrete crime prevention interventions we further distinguish between:
General effort when the intervention made is general and aimed at target groups that have not shown signs of criminal behaviour. The effort is concentrated on working on the causes of children and young people who commit crimes.
Specific effort when the intervention is directed towards groups of children and young people who have been in trouble with the law or who show signs of suffering from child neglect with regard to care and upbringing.
Individual effort when the intervention is individual and directed at people who have already committed crime. The aim is to prevent a relapse.
During the three days of lectures and exercises the participants, step by step, came closer to the identification of concrete problems in their respective local communities, and the seminar resulted in defined action plans for each local community from all of the participating countries.
The seminar will surely have a strong spin–off in the local communities in the Balkan area, as it offered the participants innovative approaches for working with parents, and gave them new ideas within networking and strengthening the CCP local platforms.
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