Report can be downloaded here
Dear friends,
We present to you the 16th annual report on our activities for the period September 2012 – September 2013 and hope to receive your feedback.
Most of the report is devoted to peacebuilding activities of the mixed group of war veterans that has been increasingly busy this year so that we can report on their study visit to Berlin, joint visits to places of strife and memory – Srebrenica, Busovača, and Vitez, as well as commemorative visits to Gornji Vakuf/Uskoplje, the south of Serbia and Zavidovići (which was the first instance where one of the former warring sides invited their former “enemies” to this type of commemoration of an important date from recent history). Apart from training for war veterans, in Doboj we organised a meeting of veterans to analyse what the veterans group had achieved to date in terms of peace-building, and the possibilities and opportunities for joint participation in future peace-building actions. The Basic Training in Peacebuilding is our oldest programme of peace education, and this year we held our 34th round of trainings. From long years of experience of the CNA peace education programmes, twelve years after the publication of the Nonviolence? manual, follows our new manual Reconciliation?! A manual for dealing with the past through trainings and workshops. The English translation of the Manual will be available in 2014. After years of preparation, at the end of 2012, we started putting together a book of photographs of places of memory and modes of memorialisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war(s) of 1992-1995. We expect that this book, a result of long-term research and photographing of marked and unmarked sites of memory, will be printed in 2014.
After almost ten years, we are gladly looking forward to and preparing for a new cycle of Training for Trainers. We will be publishing all the necessary information on time. We would also like to publish our experience in working with war veterans, and we are patiently working on this publication, hoping that it too will see the light of day soon. We have a lot of plans and wishes that you will have an opportunity to read about when they are finalised. We just want to say that we are working hard and with dedication, but we are not complaining, the feedback we get and the pleasure we derive from the work encourage us to keep at it.
This year, we were joined by our long-term associate and friend Marijana Stojčić. With this expansion of our capacities, we are preparing from some new ventures in peacebuilding in our societies. We will need your feedback, reactions, criticisms, but also your support, just like in the past sixteen years. Only then can our work have meaning.
Kind regards,
CNA Team