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Dear friends,
In the past year (September 2022 – September 2023), most of our activities concerned working with war veterans, marking unmarked sites of suffering, international cooperation, peace education, as well as publishing and promotion.
We attended commemorations in Sjeverin near Priboj in Serbia, Lozje near Goražde and Rogatica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The team working on marking unmarked sites of suffering carried out a large action to visit and mark four silos, former detention facilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Iron Bridge near Doboj where captured civilians were executed.
We implemented two peace education activities. The 44th Basic Training in Peacebuilding was held from 14 to 24 October 2022 in Ulcinj, Montenegro, and the fifth Peacebuilding Training for Students from Bosnia and Herzegovina was held from 22 to 28 July 2023 on Mount Vlašić, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In order to present our work in peace education to potential training participants, we made a podcast about our basic training programmes, which is available online. We have also gathered experiences from participants in our peace education programmes about how the training they attended impacted them, and have published them online.
We were the organisers for the “Present of our Past” study trip that was implemented from 25 September to 1 October and that included visits to marked and unmarked sites of suffering related to the Second World War and the wars of the 1990s in the wider Kozara area. Taking part in the study trip were students and young researchers in history, psychology and art history, as well as human rights and peace activists and reporters from the region. Extensive documentation from the study trip was published.
We also published Biber 05, the fifth Biber short story collection, and organised four promotions: in Zagreb and Petrinja in Croatia, Bitolj in North Macedonia, and Travnik in BiH. We will be opening the 6th Biber Contest in December 2023.
The Centre for Nonviolent Action became one of the partner organisations of the Global Learning Hub for Transitional Justice and Reconciliation. The conference on Exploring the Transformational Potential of Transitional Justice, where we took part, was the initiation event.
We published a special report/documentation in English from meetings organised in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 26 March to 2 April 2022 under the South Asia – Western Balkans Peacebuilding Exchange project.
In cooperation with our friends Luan Imeri (North Macedonia), Vanja Šunjić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and Dalmir Mišković (Croatia), members of the CNA Team wrote about the contexts we work in.
It was with great sorrow that we said our final farewell to our long-time associate and friend Stanislav Krezić Stana.
We are grateful to donors who financially supported our activities throughout the year, described in this report. German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development is our long-term donor through the programme Civil Peace Service, and this year we were also supported by The Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
You can read more about all of the above in this report, and more details are also available on our websites.
We welcome your comments, insights and any feedback you can send us.