Report can be downloaded here
To all the friends of CNA,
This is our fifteenth annual report, covering the period from September 2011 to September 2012. One may say it’s an anniversary report and an anniversary year, because the Centre for Nonviolent Action has been active for that long, exactly. Unfortunately, we did not celebrate our 15th anniversary with a party, where we’d have received a pat on the back and raised a glass for many years to come. It was like a busman’s holiday, marked by activities, under the pressure of time, events and people, some pleasant and other not so pleasant situations we found ourselves in (and coped with). Yet, we’ve managed to not take it too hard, to draw a moral from and find merits in all of it. We’d like to celebrate our 16th birthday if we had a chance and take some people we collaborated with, up on their offer to supply us with some home-made food and beverages for that occasion. All in good time.
During this year we have completed an Advanced training, which consisted of three modules and was rather exhausting , but also quite energizing when it comes to future work. We held two Basic training events; an Exchange seminar on dealing with the past with the participants from our region, Germany and Austria; we worked with veterans; went on a study trip to Berlin, which we needed for further activities that proved inestimably precious for all of us, due to the insights we gained … In previous years, we wrote in the reports that “we worked long and hard”. This year is no exception: it was very difficult, stressful at times, but we were immensely satisfied with what we had done, and received incredibly positive feedback from our trainees and friends of our organization. You will read about all that we’ve been working on in this report. Moreover, something about our plans, of which there are plenty, our future actions, our desires.
It’s been a difficult year for us because we changed our team. Due to various reasons, Tamara Šmidling and Sanja Deanković are no longer in the CNA while Sandra Khusrawi, was with us for a short while as an international volunteer. We point out that we took the departure of Tamara Šmidling, who had spent 11 years in CNA, very hard, both personally and organizationally. After all, we want to thank them sincerely for the contribution they gave with their work to the organization.
Our team has grown bigger with the arrival of Davorka Turk from Zagreb and Amer Delić from Zavidovići to the CNA Sarajevo office, and an additional support is gained with Sanja Burazerović (Sarajevo) and Tanja Marković (Belgrade). Since Dada and Amer have been our long-time friends, who participated in numerous activities in our organization, and contributed greatly to the peacebuilding process in the region, we are looking forward to working and sharing with them on daily basis. You can read their impressions upon arrival at CNA, in this report, too.
This year, too we’ve had a shortage of resources and plenty of work. However, we are entering next year full of enthusiasm and new ideas, knowing in advance that we are going to work a lot, and hoping that there will be no shortage of results or feedback from all of you.
We’d like to hear your feedback, criticism, opinion …
Sincerely,
CNA team
