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The application procedure for this year's 5th Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy has been closed on June 1st. We have received more then 170 applications. Our selection team is currently in the process of choosing this year's PYPA participants. All those who have applied will be noticed about the selection procedure on June 11th. 

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    Commonly known as SI-VI  (See)(BCS pronunciation of an English word CV; SI-VI alludes to a color: SIVI=GREY= coll. murky, obscure –Translator’s note), something many do not connect with anything realistic. In translation to the colloquial BCS (See): a person’s life-story. Hist. Under the domestic name used at the time of the obnoxious socialist, totalitarian regime (See), notably, along with the request for admission to the Yugoslav Communist Party (KPJ)/ The Communist Union of Yugoslavia (SKJ). – In the contemporary NGO and, to a certain extent, business world: it shows the level of a person's ublehahood. Very often, it is the pattern that is crucial and not only the length. Many people compose their CVs themselves.

from Ubleha for Idiots – An Absolutely non useful Guide for Civil Society Building and Project management for Locals and Internationals in BiH and Beyond by Nebojša Šavija-Valha and Ranko Milanovic-Blank, ALBUM No. 20, 2004, Sarajevo, translated by Marina Vasilj.