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Last update: June 14 1997
Last update: June 14 1997
web version by Boyd Noorda, Socia Media
Please note: this is an archive!
The Global University for Rebuilding Bosnia
1219 17th Avenue S.
Birmingham, Alabama 35205
Tel: 205-933-2159
Contact: Jay Craig
The Global University for Rebuilding Bosnia is a loose consortium
of landscape architecture academics whose members are
participating in mapping projects for Bosnia. The group is
presently producing a Reconstruction Handbook, authored by a
dozen leading professors in pertinent fields.
Key words: Bosnia, Education; Reconstruction.
Americans for Bosnian Human Rights-Tucson
121 Four Horses Place
Tucson, Arizona 85704
This Tucson office is part of a national network. The main office
is in Phoenix. For a full description, see the listing for
Americans for Bosnian Human Rights-Main Office under ARIZONA.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Education; Humanitarian Relief; Human
Rights; U.S. Policy.
Bosnian-American Cultural Association
1417 E. Briarwood Terrace
Phoenix, Arizona 85048
Tel: 602-460-4455
Fax: 602-893-1167
Contact: Ilyas Dedic
The Bosnian American Cultural Association is an organization
based in the local refugee community to help recently migrated
refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina. They are very clear that their
efforts are to help refugees of every ethnic origin and religion.
They help with resettlement, translations, food, transportation,
and housing. They have given special attention to assisting with
medical cases, from regular doctor visits to amputations and
prosthetics.
Key words: Bosnia; Diaspora; Health; Humanitarian Relief; Refugee
Assistance.
Bosnian Information Services
P.O. Box 9098
Prescott, Arizona 86313
Tel: 602-717-2612 (Majda)
Fax: 602-445-9759 (Attn: Eric A.)
Email: vision_hope@zamir-sa.ztn.apc.org (Steven Forman in
Sarajevo)
Contacts: Eric Adams, Majda Jarovic
The mission of the Bosnian Information Service is to provide
practical information about Bosnia, particularly Sarajevo, to
people who are traveling there out of concern for the war and its
victims. BIS will help visitors with transportation from Croatia
and within Bosnia; translators and guides; culture and language
training; assistance in finding home-stays; assistance in
finding business contacts; and contacts with people of similar
interests. BIS has produced a booklet with cultural information,
useful telephone numbers, standard prices to expect, and how to
volunteer. BIS is a project created by Bosnian refugees in
Arizona who want to share their love of their country and
introduce Bosnia to visitors from abroad.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Refugee Assistance.
Food For the Hungry
7729 E. Greenway Road
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
Tel: 800-2-HUNGER
Contact: Sally Diggs
Food for the Hungry is sending relief supplies to orphanages in
Bosnia.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Humanitarian Relief.
Tucson Balkan Peace Support Group
428 E. Adams Street
Tucson, Arizona 85705
Tel: 520-623-8905; 520-748-1551
Email: gmcmillan@pimacc.pima.edu
Contact: Gloria McMillan
The Tucson Balkan Peace Support Group works to rebuild human
contacts among the Balkan ethnic groups living in the U.S. and
abroad. They hold monthly meetings, raise funds for conflict
resolution efforts in the region, and offer English as a Second
Language classes for recent Bosnian arrivals. They produce a
one-page monthly newsletter and periodically distribute The
Internet Gazette with articles from Balkan news agencies.
Key words: Conflict Resolution; Diaspora; Education; Humanitarian
Relief; Inter-Ethnic Dialogue; Peace/Anti-War; Refugee
Assistance.
Bosnia Home Page
c/o Ayhan Infanoglu
California Institute of Technology
Caltech 104-44
Pasadena, California 91125
Email: bosnia@cco.caltech.edu
Web Site: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~bosnia/
Contacts: Ayhan Irfanoglu, Ahmet Kirac & Zehra Cataltepe
The Bosnia Home Page on the Internet serves as a door to web
sites about Bosnian history and culture, details about the war,
and channels for support of civilian war victims. It includes a
detailed list of web sites for news sources about the region and
of related computer sources. It includes a up-to-date list of
requests for tangible help, from donations to volunteers, for
Bosnian reconstruction projects, refugee assistance efforts, and
the like. The Bosnia Home Page is updated regularly.
Key words: Bosnia; Computers; Humanitarian Relief; Media;
Reconstruction;
Refugee Assistance.
Bosnia Briefings
P.O. Box 27725
Los Angeles, California 90027
Tel: 213-668-1811
Fax: 213-668-1033
Email: lasiewiczn@aol.com
Web Site: http://www.ikon.com/bosnia
Contact: Nalini Lasiewicz
Bosnia Briefings is a media service, sponsored by the Lasiewicz
Foundation, which collects information concerning the war in
Bosnia and brings items of interest to the attention of media,
civic leaders and the general public. BB maintains a reference
library and connects potential volunteers with organizations
that can use their in-kind donations and services. Highlights
include: Balkan Book List; Balkan Film Resources; Producer
Resources, consultations for filmmakers in the region, NGO
project updates and public event notices, and "Grading Dayton," a
monitoring and recommendation program.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Film/Video; Media; U.N. Policy;
U.S. Policy.
Bosnia Humanitarian Aid
2531 Sawtelle Boulevard, Suite 141
Los Angeles, California 90064
Tel: 310-838-4933
Fax: 310-838-7253
Contact: Zahid Sulejmanagic, Coordinator
Bosnia Humanitarian Aid is a non-profit organization which
distributes food, medicine, crutches and other items needed by
Bosnian communities.
Key words: Bosnia; Humanitarian Relief.
Chico Peace & Justice Center
P.O. Box 4480
Chico, California 95927
Tel: 916-345-7590
Contact: Chris Nelson
The Chico Peace Center follows the situation in former Yugoslavia
closely and educates the local community about the conflict as
part of its broader peace education program. Since the war began,
the Center has mobilized its local membership to hold
Women-in-Black vigils and other protests against the war,
organized community forums, and provided support to independent
media and draft resisters in the region. Their recent work has
included support for local Bosnian refugees.
Key words: Education; Human Rights; Media; Peace/Anti-War;
Refugee Assistance; U.S. Policy; Women's Issues.
Convoy Bosnia
P.O. Box 27725
Los Angeles, California 90027
Tel: 213-668-1811
Fax: 213-668-1033
Email: lasiewiczn@aol.com
WebSite: http://www.ikon.com/bosnia
Contact: Nalini Lasiewicz
Convoy Bosnia is a fundraising campaign, sponsored by the
Lasiewicz Foundation, to bring together small donors in the
United States with relief groups already functioning in Europe to
proved humanitarian aid, reconstruction and other needed services
to remote and ignored areas of war-torn Bosnia. Convoy Bosnia
carefully screens all its partner organizations and regularly
monitors their progress. Only those agencies with a track record
in successfully delivering aid and programs receive funding.
Key words: Bosnia; Humanitarian Relief; Reconstruction; Refugee
Assistance.
Crabgrass-Working for Social Change
3181 Mission Street #30
San Francisco, California 94110
Tel: 510-428-0240
Fax: 510-601-5683
Email: crabgrass@igc.apc.org
Contacts: Tova Green
Crabgrass builds on the idea that human beings, like crabgrass,
may appear to be separate individuals but we are all deeply
connected and inseparable. Crabgrass builds on this connection by
creating support systems for communities in need, particularly
among women. They gather support for women's projects in all
parts of the former Yugoslavia: refugee projects, health clinics,
educational programs for girls, and economic development efforts.
They build support in the U.S. through public speaking, articles
in progressive publications, and a periodic newsletter.
Key words: Economic Development; Education; Health; Humanitarian
Relief; Human Rights; Peace/Anti-war; Refugee Assistance; Women's
Issues.
Croatian Internet Network
P.O. Box 4156
West Hills, California 91308
Email: mgotovac@hrnet.org
Web Site: http://www.hrnet.org/CIN/
Contact: Matija Gotovac
The Croatian Internet Network uses the power of the Internet to
facilitate communication and information exchange among Croatian
immigrant communities around the world. CIN expresses an interest
in tying together a wide variety of Croatian organizations,
creating a diverse place with diverse people. It must be noted
that the information CIN posts directly from Croatia reflects a
nationalistic point of view. However, in the efforts it is making
in the U.S. CIN expresses a commitment to ethnic diversity and a
variety of political opinions.
Key words: Computers; Croatia; Diaspora; Education; Media.
Direct Relief International
27 South La Patera Lane
Santa Barbara, California 93117
Tel: 800-862-7070
Direct Relief donates and delivers medical goods to health
facilities in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. Items include
antibiotics, vitamins, orthopedic hardware and software, surgical
and trauma supplies, and medical equipment to both urban and
field hospitals. All aid is extended on a non-sectarian basis.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Health; Humanitarian Relief; Serbia.
Global Children's Organization
4801 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 221
Los Angeles, California 90010
Tel/Fax:
Contact: Judith Jenya
Global Children's Organization reaches out to refugee children
who are suffering psychologically from the wars in Croatia and
Bosnia. Every summer since 1993, GCO has run the Island to Island
Summer Camp on an island in the Adriatic where children can begin
to relax and heal. The organization is also planning the
development of a community center for children and families in
Sarajevo.
Key words: Bosnia, Children/Youth; Croatia; Mental Health;
Refugee Assistance.
Global Children's Organization-Northern California Contact
768 Contra Costa Avenue
Berkeley, California 94707
Tel/Fax: 510-526-4476
Email: eheartshorne@igc.apc.org
Contact: Edie Heartshorne
Global Children's Organization works with Croatian and Bosnian
refugee children. Edie Heartshorne is available for speaking
about the project and about support for children experiencing
war-trauma.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Croatia; Mental Health;
Refugee Assistance.
International Medical Corps
12233 West Olympic Boulevard, Suite 280
Los Angeles, California 90064
Tel: 310-826-7800
Contact: Karen Gerst
International Medical Corps runs emergency medical and mental
health programs in Zenica, Tuzla, Bihac, Gorazde, and outlying
areas. At the Zenica Hospital, it set up a training program for
Bosnian doctors and nurses in emergency care. It runs
immunization programs and provides counseling and therapeutic
activities for war-traumatized Bosnian children. IMC-trained
Bosnian mental health workers have created their own independent
NGO, called Sezam.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Health; Humanitarian Relief;
Mental Health.
Internews Network
P.O. Box 4448
Arcata, California 95518
Tel: 707-826-2030
Email: ldillon@internews.org
Contact: Lorraine Dillon
Internews is an international non-profit organization that uses
television technology to build bridges of understanding. Much of
its work supports non-governmental television, radio, and print
media in the emerging democracies in the former Soviet Union.
Internews has arranged the only television broadcast of the
proceedings of the International War Crimes Tribunal that can be
viewed in former Yugoslavia. These broadcasts are considered a
crucial part of the healing process: letting people in the
countries where there are victims know that justice is being
carried out. Internews is conducting training programs for
television and radio professionals in Bosnia and Serbia.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Education; Film/Video; Human Rights;
Media; Serbia; War Crimes Tribunal.
Miles to Go
277 Alma Street
Palo Alto, California 94306
Tel: 415-324-3335
Fax: 415-725-7243
Email: krepa@leland.stanford.edu
Contact: John Randazzo
Miles to Go is a nonprofit organization at Stanford University
which raises funds and gathers medical supplies to be distributed
to communities and refugee camps in Bosnia. The project
collaborates with MediBank, a San Francisco Bay Area organization
that operates like a food bank, stockpiling and distributing
supplies that hospitals can no longer use because of advances in
technology and lack of need. In the summer 1996, a group of
students accompanied the Miles to Go shipment, remained to work
in the refugee camps and established the Velenje Project which
helps develop youth and community centers. The group feels that
while they cannot match the volume of aid distributed by major
organizations, they can provide a personal ongoing involvement.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Health; Humanitarian Relief;
Mental Health; Refugee Assistance.
Muslim Americans Voter Association
P.O. Box 20127
San Jose, California 95160
Tel: 408-997-0144
Email: shakibm@acm.org
Contact: Shakib Misherghi
The Muslim Americans Voter Association's activities include
activism to convince elected officials in the U.S. to support
Bosnia, coordination of the U.S. Muslim community to help Bosnian
refugees and coordination with other organizations to provide
humanitarian aid to the victims of war in Bosnia.
Key words: Bosnia; Humanitarian Relief; Refugee Assistance; U.S.
Policy.
Operation USA
8320 Melrose Avenue, Suite 200
Los Angeles, California 90069
Tel: 800-678-7255
Email: opusa@lafn.org
Operation USA ships medical supplies and pharmaceuticals to
Bosnia and Croatia.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Health; Humanitarian Relief.
Pacific Life Research Center
631 Kiely Boulevard
Santa Clara, California 95051
Tel: 408-248-1815
Fax: 408-985-9716
Contact: Bob Aldridge
The Center seeks to inform the public about technical issues with
regard to wars and militarism, that are not easily understood and
to explain these issues in understandable terms. Current focus is
on the Trident submarine/missile system and peace in the Balkans.
Key words: Education; Peace/Anti-war; U.S. Policy.
Students Against Genocide (SAGE)
P.O. Box 9248
Stanford, California 94309
Tel: 415-725-7243
Fax: 415-725-7243
Email: sherilee@leland.stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/SAGE
Contact: Sheri Fink
SAGE is involved in educating and empowering students on campuses
across the country, and internationally, to counter genocide - in
former Yugoslavia and in other regions. It encourages them to
take action through a variety of projects: humanitarian aid,
local refugee outreach, support for the International War Crimes
Tribunal, and direct action. SAGE provides an electronic mail
network and a World Wide Web site, a newsletter called Sage
Update, and an information packet.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Genocide; Humanitarian Relief;
Human Rights; Media; Refugee Assistance; U.N. Policy; U.S.
Policy; War Crimes Tribunal; Women's Issues.
World Without War Council, Inc.
1730 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way
Berkeley, California 94704
Tel: 510-845-1992 (days)
Fax: 510-845-5721
Email: wwwc@igc.apc.org
Contact: Robert Pickus
The World Without War Council identifies individuals and
organizations in the U.S. with connections to the former
Yugoslavia, identifies democratic, human rights,and
peace-oriented leaders and groups in former Yugoslavia, and then
helps to establish links between the two. They want to help the
individuals and agencies in former Yugoslavia by linking them to
interested American organizations. The WWWC also maintains an
office in Chicago; see listing under ILLINOIS.
Key words: Conflict Resolution; Education; Human Rights;
Inter-Ethnic Dialogue; Peace/Anti-War; U.N. Policy; U.S. Policy.
Greenwich Coalition for Peace in Bosnia
65 Perkins Road
Greenwich, Connecticut 06830
Tel: 203-629-9765
Fax: 203-869-4860
Contact: Carol Schaefer
The Greenwich Coalition is a grassroots organization in Fairfield
County with four goals: to help reduce the human suffering in
Bosnia, to increase public awareness, to urge the re-imposition
of sanctions on states that violate the Dayton Peace Accords, and
to create public pressure for the apprehension and bringing to
justice of those indicted by the War Crimes Tribunal. The
Coalition sponsors humanitarian aid projects in conjunction with
Children in Crisis (New York/Tuzla) and markets hand-made items
from Bosnian refugees. Its educational work includes forums,
interfaith events, and protests and letter-writing campaigns
addressed at the media and the U.S. government.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Humanitarian Relief; Refugee
Assistance; U.S.
Policy; War Crimes Tribunal.
Rape/Genocide Law Project
P.O. Box 6413
Hamden, Connecticut 06517
Contact: Natalie Nenadic.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Education; Human Rights;
Rape/Genocide; War Crimes Tribunal; Women's Issues.
Save the Children
Ex-Yugoslavia Relief
P.O. Box 975
Westport, Connecticut 06881
Tel: 203-221-4161
Fax: 203-221-4210
Contact: Peg Blackburn
Working with displaced and refugee families, Save the Children
has established 475 preschool groups (serving approx. 13,000
children) in Bosnia and southern Croatia. Parents are involved in
all aspects of the project, from finding and rehabilitating
suitable facilities to managing the operations. Save the Children
provides basic school materials, teacher training, and guidance
in making the school financially self-sustainable. Through this
program, young war-affected children are provided with a
supportive educational environment which also addresses their
emotional needs.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Children/Youth; Education;
Humanitarian Relief; Mental Health; Reconstruction.
AICF/USA
International Action Against Hunger
1511 K Street NW, Suite 1025
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-783-5947
AICF works in Central Bosnia; its base of operations is in
Bugojno. It's humanitarian work focuses on agricultural, economic
and environmental development, reconstruction, health, and ethnic
reconciliation. It has provided seeds and tree seedlings,
provided children with art therapy to address war trauma, and
helped local people create sustainable businesses.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Economic Development; Health;
Humanitarian Relief; Mental Health; Reconstruction.
American Bar Association and Central and East European Law
Initiative (CEELI)
740 15th Street NW, 8th Floor
Washington, DC 20005-1009
Tel: 202-662-1950
Fax: 202-662-1597
Email: ceeli@attmail.com
Web Site: http://abanet.org/ceeli/home.html
Contacts: Mark Ellis, Executive Director; Margaret Zokowski,
Program Assistant
CEELI is committed to advancing the rule of law and the legal
reform process in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly
Independent States of the former Soviet Union. With resident
liaisons stationed in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,
Macedonia and 17 other countries, CEELI makes available the legal
expertise of U.S. and international judges, lawyers and law
professors to assist countries in modifying or restructuring laws
and legal systems.
Key words: Citizenship; Human Rights; Legal Reform;
Reconstruction.
American Red Cross International Response Fund
For Donations:
P.O. Box 37243, Washington, DC 20013
Tel: 800-HELP-NOW
For Information:
8111 Galeborn Road, Falls Church, Virginia 22042
Attention: Public Inquiries
Tel: 703-206-7090
The International Red Cross has provided emergency food and water
and medical assistance to the victims of the war and "ethnic
cleansing," helped establish contact between separated family
members, and sought to determine the fate of missing loved ones.
The American Red Cross provided funds and commodities, initiated
a major feeding project in Central Bosnia and handled thousands
of messages between people in Bosnia and their families in the
U.S.
Key words: Bosnia; Humanitarian Relief; Refugee Assistance.
American University Bosnia Support Committee
c/o Prof. Joshua Goldstein
School of International Service, American University
Washington, DC 20016
Tel: 202-885-2457
Fax: 202-882-0262
Email: jgoldst@American.edu
The Bosnia Support Committee at American University, formed in
1994, works to provide political and humanitarian support to
multi-ethnic Bosnia. It has sponsored a teach-in, various
speakers and forums, and political demonstrations. The BSC/AU
supports changes in U.S. policy to more effectively confront
ultra-nationalism and aid the victims of genocide - including
stronger support for the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague and
robust use of IFOR to ensure human rights and freedom of
movement. The BSC/AU helped to support a Bosnian student at
American University in 1995.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Exchanges; Genocide; U.S. Policy;
War Crimes Tribunal.
Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team
P.O. Box 56466
Washington, DC 20040
Tel: 202-829-8676
Contact: Peter Sage
Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team has been providing basic
foodstuffs to people in Western Slavonia in Croatia, as well as
sending women's hygiene items to refugee camps in Croatia.
Key words: Croatia; Humanitarian Relief; Refugee Assistance;
Women's Issues.
The Balkan Institute
P.O. Box 27974
Washington, DC 20038
Tel: 202-737-5219
Fax: 202-737-1940
Email: balkaninst@aol.com
Web Site: Http://users.aol.com/BalkanInst/home.html
Contacts: Marshall Harris, Stephen Walker
The Balkan Institute is engaged in public education efforts on
the nature of the Balkan war and its consequences, by providing
informative historical accounts of how the crisis evolved and
thoughtful analyses of the current situation. It produces a
weekly news summary, Balkan Watch, background and analytical
papers, and two regular analytical publications, Balkan Monitor
and Military Watch. The Institute sponsors fact-finding missions,
research projects, and public seminars and conferences.
Key words: Education; U.N. Policy; U.S. Policy.
Bosnia Support Committee
P.O. Box 18712
Washington, DC 20003
Tel: 202-546-5672 (Dede Faller) or 202-333-2823 ( Andrew Eiva)
Fax: same as phones but call first.
Email: 200-7618@mcimail.com
Contacts: Dede Faller, Andrew Eiva
The Bosnia Support Committee centers its work on urging elected
U.S. leaders to support a multi-ethnic Bosnia within its pre-1992
borders. BSC organizes demonstrations and distributes leaflets
and videos.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; U.N. Policy; U.S. Policy.
British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
1900 L Street NW #401
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202-785-1266
Fax: 202-387-6298
Email: basicusa@igc.apc.org
Web Site: http://www.igc.apc.org/basic/
Contact: Dan Plesch
The British American Security Information Council seeks to
strengthen the non-nationalist voices in the Balkans and enhance
security in the region through dialogue and arms control. BASIC
conducts independent analyses of policies and disseminates
information internationally to NGOs, policy makers, and the
media.
Key words: Education; Media; Peace/Anti-War; U.N. Policy; U.S.
Policy.
Center for Civil Society in Southeastern Europe
1319 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202-785-1309
Fax: 202-833-3372
Email: cdp@interserv.com
Contact: Gregory J. Simpson, Washington Director
The Center for Civil Society in Southeastern Europe (CCS),
formerly the Croatian Democracy Project, is a Washington DC-based
private voluntary organization, established in 1990 to assist in
the social, political,and economic development of the emerging
democracies in former Yugoslavia. CCS offers over six years of
experience working in the region and managing democracy-building
efforts, visitors/training, and humanitarian assistance programs.
CCS works closely with community, political, and religious
leaders to promote the development of vibrant civil societies
dedicated to political liberty, economic freedom, and
inter-ethnic reconciliation. CCS has founded two Centers for
Ethnic Reconciliation in the Federation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina: local-level, indigenous civic organizations designed
to encourage respect for human civil and minority rights, promote
inter-ethnic cooperation, and bolster the development of civil
society at the grass-roots level, through community development
programs which benefit all citizens regardless of ethnicity. CCS
publishes a quarterly newsletter.($25 donation).
Key words: Bosnia; Citizenship; Conflict Resolution; Croatia;
Economic Development; Education; Human Rights; Inter-Ethnic
Dialogue; Media; U.S. Policy.
Center for Strategic and International Studies Project
Conflict Resolution Training for Religious Representatives from
the Former Yugoslavia
1800 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202-775-3154
Fax: 202-775-3199
Email: steeled@csis.org
Contact: Dr. David A. Steele
The Project seeks to foster inter-ethnic and inter-religious
community building by conducting 3-4-day training seminars in
community building and conflict resolution in Bosnia, Serbia, and
Croatia. It produces written reports and proposals which are
available on request and is in the process of developing a
training manual.Key words: Education; Conflict Resolution;
Inter-Ethnic Dialogue; Religious Community; Peace/Anti-War.
Coalition for International Justice
American Bar Association
740 Fifteenth Street NW, 8th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-662-1595
Fax: 202-662-1597
Email: jheffernan@cij.org
WebSite: http://www.cij.org/cij/
Contact: John Heffernan
The Coalition for International Justice, developed by the
American Bar Association, is an international, non-profit
organization that provides financial and in-kind support and
technical legal assistance to the International Criminal
Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. The CIJ also
coordinates support for the Tribunals from interested
non-governmental organizations and provides advocacy and public
education about the role of the Tribunals in maintaining
international security and in establishing the rule of law. The
CIJ has headquarters in Washington, D.C., with a sister
organization in The Hague and a liaison office in Brussels,
Belgium.
Key words: Education; Human Rights; Legal Reform; War Crimes
Tribunal.
Mary Haney
Haney Associates
4353 Verplanck Place NW
Washington, DC 20016
Tel: 202-966-7737
Fax: 202-364-8452
Mary Haney has been working since the war began to raise public
awareness of women's experience of the conflict. Early in 1993,
she established the D.C. Ad Hoc Coalition to Oppose War Crimes
Against Women in the Former Yugoslavia. She was active in
organizing for the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in
Beijing where the Platform for Action cited rape as a war crime.
She is available for public speaking on these issues and on
broader topics related to women in Central and Eastern Europe and
to follow up to the Beijing Conference.
Key words: Education; Rape; U.N. Policy; Women's Issues.
Humanity International
International Square
1825 I Street NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202-429-2733
Fax: 202-429-9574
Contact: Daniel Aulicino
Humanity International is helping with the distribution of excess
medical equipment and supplies to hospitals in Bosnia. As
reconstruction begins in Bosnia, HI is developing a program to
provide new medical clinics with lab equipment and to provide
computers and computer training for Automated Learning Centers.
Key words: Bosnia; Computers; Health; Humanitarian Relief;
Reconstruction.
Immigration and Refugee Services of America
1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW. Suite 701
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202-797-2105
Immigration and Refugee Services of America provides preventive
mental health and social service programs to displaced Bosnian
and Croatian children in private accommodation in Croatia. This
program, called "Prilatelj" (Friends), operates two community
centers for youth and families. The program also offers
leadership training and is transferring the operation to local
professionals while exploring other possibilities in Bosnia.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Croatia; Humanitarian Relief;
Mental Health; Refugee Assistance.
International Catholic Migration Commission
1319 F Street NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20004
Tel: 202-393-2904
The International Catholic Migration Commission operates the U.S.
Refugee Processing Program Office in Zagreb which assists
refugees throughout Croatia who are seeking resettlement in the
United States. Its Cultural Orientation Program provides
pre-arrival training. It is now developing programs to help
reintegrate refugees and displaced persons within Bosnia,
focusing on economic development activities and assistance to
displaced women.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Economic Development; Refugee
Assistance; Women's Issues.
National Organization for Victim Assistance
1757 Park Road NW
Washington, DC 20010
Tel: 202-232-2282
Fax: 202-462-2255
Email: nova@digex.net
Web Site: http://www.access.digex.net/~nova
NOVA has organized "Trauma Relief Teams" in refugee centers in
Bosnia.
Key words: Bosnia; Mental Health.
Network of East-West Women
1601 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 701
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 202-265-3585
Fax: 202-265-3508
Email: newwdc@igc.apc.org
Former Soviet Union Program
Email: neww@glas.apc.org
Web Site: http://www.igc.apc.org/neww/
Contact: Dorota Majewska
The Network of East-West Women is an international communication
and resource network, supporting dialogue, informational
exchange, and activism among those concerned about women's
swiftly changing situation in Central and Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union. The Network has forged strong links with
women's groups throughout former Yugoslavia. Its primary projects
include NEWW On-Line, an electronic communications network that
maximizes informational exchanges, develops technical skills, and
coordinates research and activist projects. The East-East Legal
Coalition monitors the legal impact of the post-communist
transition on women's lives. NEWW publishes a membership
directory, the On-Line User's Guide and a periodic newsletter.
Key words: Computers; Education; Human Rights; Legal Reform;
Media; Women's Issues.
Psychologists for Social Responsibility
2607 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: 202-745-7084
Contact: Anne Anderson
Since 1993, Psychologists for Social Responsibility has produced
and distributed a brochure, Ratna Trauma I Oporavak, which
advises people in former Yugoslavia on war trauma and recovery.
PSR hosts occasional meetings and forums on how psychologists can
find ways to support their professional colleagues in the region
and best make their skills of use.
Key words: Education; Mental Health.
Refugees International
21 Dupont Circle NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tels: 212-828-0110 or 1-800-REFUGEE
Fax: 212-828-0819
Email: ri@clark.net
Web Site: http://www.clark.net/pub/ri/ri.html
Refugees International seeks to serves as the advocate of the
unrepresented - the refugee - and to provide early warning in
crises of mass exodus, mixing quiet diplomacy and the power of
the press to mobilize governments and the U.N. It contributes
on-the-ground emergency assessments which can pave the way for
relief agencies and human rights organizations. Among its 30
emergency missions in the last four years, it launched a major
effort to help the war victims in Bosnia. In 1994 and 1995, RI
produced and distributed a regular news sheet summary, Bosnia
Relief Watch. It continues to send observer delegations to
monitor the delivery of assistance. In 1996, it produced a video
clip on the survivors of Srebrenica and a bulletin on the need
for seeds during Bosnia's spring planting season.
Key words: Education; Humanitarian Aid; Refugee Assistance; U.N.
Policy; U.S. Policy.
Search for Common Ground
1601 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 202-265-4300
Fax: 202-232-6718
Email: searchcg@igc.apc.org
Contact: David Schorr
Search for Common Ground carries out an extensive program aimed
at helping resolve ethnic conflict in Macedonia. They have begun
program exploration efforts in Bosnia. Search for Common Ground
in Macedonia co-sponsors a program bringing together journalists
from different ethnic groups in seminars and promoting improved
coverage across ethnic lines through joint reporting projects.
They have helped develop conflict resolution training programs
and materials for teachers and students in local schools,
co-produced a television series focused on ethnic issues, and
launched two environmental projects based on inter-ethnic
cooperation. The Washington, DC office hosts regular Macedonia
Policy Forum meetings for policy makers and NGOs.
Key words: Bosnia; Conflict Resolution; Education; Inter-Ethnic
Dialogue; Macedonia; Media; U.S. Policy.
STAR Project (Delphi STAR Project)
1090 Vermont Avenue NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-898-0950
Fax: 202-842-0885
Email: ad@delphi-int.org
Contact: Claudia Crawford; Alexandra Detjens
The STAR Project provides technical assistance to women's
organizations in the former Yugoslavia in the areas of
communications, conflict resolution, economic and organizational
development, and public policy advocacy. Working with advisory
boards of local women, it seeks to assist local organizations by
providing access to training skills, assistance in strategic
planning and fundraising, computer technology and know-how, and
region-wide workshops and conferences. It seeks to strengthen
women's leadership in the new civil society structures that are
emerging in the region, and to assist them in building support
networks across ethnic and national lines.
Key words: Computers; Conflict Resolution; Economic Development;
Education; Reconstruction; Women's Issues.
U.S. Committee for Refugees
1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 701
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202-347-3507
Fax: 202-347-3418.
Key words: Refugee Assistance.
U.S. Institute of Peace
1550 M Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-457-1700
Fax: 202-429-6063
The United States Institute for Peace is not an NGO. It is a U.S.
government supported Institute, operating on funds approved
annually by the U.S. Congress. However, it is an important source
of support for other non-governmental organizations in the United
States: it provides grants, supports scholarly research,
organizes conferences, and publishes important findings in the
fields of disarmament and nonviolent resolution of international
conflict. USIP has taken an active role in monitoring and
supporting programs to end the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
In 1996, it began exploring the possibilities of creating an
electronic clearinghouse of Online Information on Conflict
Resolution and Reconciliation Activities in the Former
Yugoslavia.
Key words: Computers; Conflict Resolution; Education;
Inter-Ethnic Dialogue; Peace/Anti-War; U.S. Policy.
Women for Women in Bosnia
1725 K Street, NW, Suite 611
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202-822-1391
Fax: 202-822-1392
Email: wwbosnia@embassy.org
Web Site: http:\\ www.embassy.org\wwbosnia\wwbosnia.html
Contact: Zainab Salbi
Women for Women in Bosnia provides financial and emotional
support to women affected by the war in Bosnia and Croatia. WWB
links supporters with individual women in need; more than 700
women have been sponsored through this program in the last three
years. The organization also operates a micro credit lending
program which aims to help mainly female-headed households start
income generating jobs for themselves; it provides small loans to
women returning back to their destroyed homes around Sarajevo.
WWB publishes Outreach monthly, distributed free to its sponsors.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Economic Development; Humanitarian
Relief; Reconstruction; Refugee Assistance; Women's Issues.
World Vision International
220 I Street NW, Suite 270
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: 202-547-3743
Fax: 202-547-4834
Contact: Dayton Maxwell
Email: dayton_maxwell@wvi.org
This is the International Office for World Vision; the main
office for World Vision USA is in Federal Way, Washington. For a
full description, see the listing under WASHINGTON STATE.
Key words: Bosnia; Economic Development; Humanitarian Relief;
Mental Health; Reconstruction.
People Finder Service
c/o Applied Computer Solutions
P.O. Box 1742
Tallahassee, Florida 32303
Tel: 904-877-5280 days
Tel: 904-877-0620 eves
Fax: 904-877-5280
Email: dubravko@supernet.net and pnbalkans@igc.apc.org
Contact: Dubravko Kakarigi
People Finder Service records and distributes information about
people missing in the Balkan wars, and makes on-line resources
available to other tracing services, such as the International
Committee of the Red Cross.
Key words: Computers; Refugee Assistance.
Sarajevo Project
c/o St. Petersburg Friends Meeting
130 19th Avenue SE
St. Petersburg, Florida 33705
Tel: 813-531-3401
Fax: 813-531-3401; after the beep press *51 and then Start
Contact: Linda Beekman
The Sarajevo Project evolved from the personal efforts of Linda
Beekman who from 1993-95, hand-delivered over one thousands
pounds of material aid into Sarajevo, including musical
instruments and ballet shoes - aid overlooked by other
organizations. The Project continues to supply this type of aid
to Sarajevo and Tuzla.
Key words: Art/Theater; Bosnia; Education; Humanitarian Relief;
Mental Health; Peace/Anti-War.
WHACH: Worldwide Humanitarian Aid Clearing House
P.O. Box 1742
Tallahassee, Florida 32303
Tel: 904-877-5280 days
Email: whach@applicom.com
Web Site: http://www.applicom.com/whach/
Contact: Dubravko Kakarigi
The Worldwide Humanitarian Aid Clearing House seeks to collect
and disseminate information on humanitarian aid to individuals
and groups who are interested in offering this kind of
assistance. This program is designed by organizers with years of
humanitarian aid work in former Yugoslavia, but the clearinghouse
focus will be worldwide and it will address a variety of crisis
situations. WHACH will carry information about specific
humanitarian aid situations and aid organizations as well as
general information on the treaties and conventions which one
must comply with to provide aid. Information will be organized in
a variety of data bases and in a library, including a video
library. Information will be disseminated through printed
reports, newsletters and alerts, conferences and the Internet.
Key words: Education; Humanitarian Relief; Reconstruction;
Refugee Assistance.
The Carter Center
Conflict Resolution Program
One Copenhill
Atlanta, Georgia 30307
Tel: 404-420-5185
Fax: 404-420-3862
Email: ccjn@emory.edu
Web Site: http://www.emory.edu/CARTER_CENTER
Contact: Joyce Neu
The Carter Center's Conflict Resolution Program marshals the
experience of peacemakers to address the suffering caused by
armed conflicts around the globe. Through its International
Negotiation Network, the program monitors conflicts weekly and,
upon request, offers advice and assistance to resolve disputes.
In 1994, Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter and two Carter Center
staff members traveled to Bosnia where they successfully brokered
a four month cease-fire. After fighting broke out again, Carter
testified before the Senate Armed Service Committee urging that
U.S. influence be used to bring warring factions to the
negotiating table.
Key words: Conflict Resolution; International Policy.
MAP International
2200 Glynco Parkway
Brunswick, Georgia 31521
Tels: 800-225-8550; 912-265-6010
MAP International has provided hospitals, clinics, and refugee
centers in Bosnia and Croatia with medicine and medical supplies.
MAP is conducting training in Kosovo/a for obstetricians,
pediatricians, and general practitioners.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Health; Humanitarian Relief;
Kosovo/a; Refugee Assistance.
Ministry Resource Network
d/b/a Church Resource Network International in Bosnia
5185 Peachtree Dunwoody Road
Atlanta, Georgia 30342
Tel: 770-256-5700
Fax: 770-256-0624
Email: 74222.2507@compuserve.com
Contacts: John Rowell, Bill Smith
The Church Resource Network carries out refugee relief work,
humanitarian aid, and reconciliation work in Bosnia. It works
with indigenous church leaders in ministering to personal and
spiritual needs where possible. The Network's base in the U.S. is
among Evangelical Christians, where it works with local U.S.
churches. CRN has produced a film, The Road to Sarajevo.
Key words: Bosnia; Conflict Resolution; Humanitarian Relief;
Religious Community.
7 Stages: The Survivor Arts Project
1105 Euclid Avenue
Atlanta, Georgia 30307
Tel: 404-522-0911
Fax: 404-522-0913
Email: lrjames@pd.org
Contact: Lisa James
7 Stages, a professional theater company, is working with artists
from the countries of former Yugoslavia to explore the
responsibility of artists in situations of survival, whether of
the person, a culture, or a way of life. Artists from Sarajevo,
Belgrade, and Zagreb were presented in Atlanta around the 1996
Summer Olympics. In the Fall of 1996, 7 Stages toured Belgrade,
Skopje and Bitola. 7 Stages is interested in receiving proposals
for collaborative performance projects to take place either in
the United States or in the countries of former Yugoslavia.
Key words: Art/Theater; Bosnia; Croatia; Macedonia; Serbia.
Americans for Bosnian Human Rights-Chicago Office
6331 N. Keystone Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60646
This Chicago office is part of a national network. The main
office is in Phoenix. For a full description, see the entry for
Americans for Bosnian Human Rights-Main Office under ARIZONA.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Education; Humanitarian Relief; Human
Rights; U.S. Policy.
Benevolence International Foundation
P.O. Box 548
Worth, Illinois 60482
Tel: 708-233-0062 days
Fax: 708-233-0069
Email: gzobie@aol.com and mermaa@engvms.unl.edu
Contact: Muzaffar Khan
The Benevolence International Foundation offers acute aid on an
emergency basis in food, clothing, shelter, and medical care as
well as educational, vocational and agricultural processes. It
publishes Benevolence Report, a quarterly newsletter, and
produces videos on BIF's projects.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Education; Humanitarian Relief;
Reconstruction; Refugee Assistance.
Franciscan Fathers-Save the Children of Bosnia and Herzegovina
P.O. Box 29067
Chicago, Illinois 60629
Tels: 708-806-6700 days; 708-430-9516 eves (Marija Luburic)
Fax: 708-806-6370
Email: napredak@hrnet.org
Web Site: http://www.hrnet.org/~napredak/SCBH/
Contact: Marilyn Wright
Franciscan Fathers-Save the Children provides humanitarian aid
for children in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sponsors are connected to
an individual child with whom they are encouraged to correspond.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Humanitarian Relief.
Illinois Committee to Save Bosnia
Chicago, Illinois
Tel: 312-421-5161
Contact: Steve Mueller
Bojana Mladenovic
Northwestern University, Dept. of Philosophy
1818 Hinman Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60208
Bojana Mladenovic is a speaker and activist engaged in supporting
feminism, multi-ethnicity, peace and conflict resolution efforts
in former Yugoslavia. She recently relocated to Illinois from
Berkeley, California where she worked with the Balkans Peace
Project. She can speak about the existence and viability of the
political forces for peace and democracy in the region, as well
as providing a political analysis of the current situation.
Key words: Conflict Resolution; Education; Peace/Anti-War;
Women's Issues.
Napredak On-Line
Project on Genocide, Psychiatry and Witnessing
SESTRA International
Southern Illinois Committee for Bosnia
World Relief Corporation
World Without War Council-Midwest Office
Children of War Rescue Project
Catholic Relief Services
International Orthodox Christian Charities
Balkan Initiatives, Inc.
Bosnia Advocates of Metrowest (BAM)
Bosnian Manuscripts Ingathering Project
Boston Group Against Ethnic Cleansing
Center for War, Peace and the News Media
Friends of Bosnia
The Frosina Foundation
Institute for Resource and Security Studies
Knitting Project of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
New England Bosnian Relief Committee
Open Road Sarajevo
Physicians for Human Rights
Project Bosnia
Sabre Foundation, Inc.
Sarajevo Pony Express/Servis za Pisma Refugee Mail
International Aid
Mercy International-USA
Sarajevo News Network
Coalition for Peace and Human Rights in the former Yugoslavia
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
St. Louis Bosnian Student Project
Drew University Students Against Genocide
International War Crimes
Amnesty International/USA-The Balkan Coordination Group
Balkan Children in Exile
Balkan Dialogue Project
Balkan Peace Team
Balkans Trauma Project
Balkan Theater Project
Balkan War Resource Group
The Bosnia Coordinating Committee
Bosnian Student Project
Bowery Productions
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for War, Peace and the News Media
Center on Violence and Human Survival
Children in Crisis International
Coalition for Intervention Against Genocide
Committee to Protect Journalists
Desa Dubrovnik
Manuela Dobos
Doctors of the World
Doctors Without Borders USA
Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop's
Fund for World Relief
Equality Now
Faces of Sorrow
Foundation for a Civil Society
Free Bosnia Action Group
Friends of B-92
Global Action Project
Globalvision
Helsinki Citizens Assembly/USA
Human Rights Watch/ Helsinki
485 Fifth Avenue
Institute for War & Peace Reporting
International Medical Relief of Western New York
International Rescue Committee
Jerrahi Order of America
Jews Against Genocide/NY Committee to Save Bosnia
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Lutheran World Relief
Karen Malpede
Neither East Nor West
Open Society Institute/Soros Foundations Network
The Sarajevo Fund, Inc.
Ivo Skoric
Solidarity Project of St. Lawrence University
Tribunal Watch
United Methodist Committee on Relief
Women in Black/3 Women in Black
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Stop Ethnic Cleansing
Similar Spaces, Distant Places
Peace Journey/Sarajevo Peace Centre
Women in Black/ Portland
American Friends Service Committee
Balkans Peace Centre in Macedonia
Brother's Brother Foundation
The Community of Bosnia Foundation
Friends of Bosnia
Jews Against Genocide in Bosnia
Mennonite Central Committee Peace Office
Project Bosnia, Villanova University School of Law
PeaceWorks
Foundation for a Compassionate Society
Texans for Peace
The Bosnia and Herzegovina Education Fund
Emergency Medical Response Agency
JournalShare Bosnia Project
Lifeline Network for Peace/
Gerald Shenk
Island Bosnian Relief
Powerful Choices
RES-Q Global Relief
Thurston County Citizens for Bosnia
World Vision
Bosnia Relief Committee
Produced by the Balkan War Resource Group Sponsored by
Web version by Boyd Noorda of Socia Media, The Hague
P.O. Box 29004
Chicago, Illinois 60629
Tel: 315-581-7781 (evenings)
Electronic mail:
Web Site: http://www.hrnet.org/~napredak/
Contact: Marko Puljic
Napredak On-Line is linked to the organization Napredak, which
has served the Croatian community in Bosnia-Herzegovina since
1907, primarily focusing on education. Since 1990, it has sought
to be a voice for peace during the war, organizing humanitarian
help, student support and cultural activities which transcend
religious and cultural differences. Napredak On-Line is an
on-line database of information concerning the Croatian community
in Bosnia. It contains documents, analysis, pictures and other
material.
Key words: Bosnia; Computers; Education.
U. of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Psychiatry
Psychiatric Institute, Room 4235
1601 West Taylor Street
Chicago, Illinois 60612
Tel: 312-666-6500 x3205
Fax: 312-633-2195
Email: smweine@uic.edu
Contacts: Steven M. Weine MD and Ivan Pavkovic MD
The Project on Genocide, Psychiatry and Witnessing, which is led
by two psychiatrists and includes professionals with mental
health experience in Bosnia and Croatia, has two primary goals.
The first is survivors' recovery: the Project supports Bosnian
refugees in the Chicago area who need specialized services for
overcoming their trauma-related problems, in order to help with
their adaptation in the new environment. The second goal is to
make an intellectual inquiry into the nature of events that lead
to crimes against humanity. The Project's experience of providing
high quality health services to Bosnian refugees will also
provide the basis for educating mental health professionals in
the U.S., Bosnia, and Croatia.
Key words: Art/Theater; Bosnia; Croatia; Education; Genocide;
Mental Health; Refugee Assistance.
200 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 401
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Tel: 312-251-0501
Fax: 312-649-1088
Email: susan_soric@specevent.uchicago.edu
Web Site: http://www.embassy.org/nona/sestra.front.page.html
Contacts: Susan Soric or Meghan Kennedy
SESTRA International is a Chicago-based grassroots organization
which seeks to respond directly to the survivors of systematic
and genocidal rape as their advocates and supporters through
working with health-care providers, women's organizations, and
volunteer organization of the country and culture in need. The
organization maintains close ties to women in the Balkans while
responding to requests for assistance from women throughout the
world. They provide crisis intervention training programs,
advocate for improved human rights laws and enforcement for women
survivors of war crimes, support Chicago area programs in their
efforts to help refugees, and conduct research on the subject of
systematic rape.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Education; Humanitarian Relief; Human
Rights; Mental Health; Rape/Genocide; Refugee Assistance; War
Crimes Tribunal; Women's Issues.
Interfaith Center
913 S. Illinois
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
Fax: 618-453-5440 (Zobairi)
Contact: Nelafir Zobairi.
Key words: Bosnia; Education.
P.O. Box WRC
Wheaton, Illinois 60189
Tels: 630-665-0235; 800-535-5433
Fax: 630-665-4473
Email: worldrelief@xc.org
Web Site: http://www.wr.org
Contacts: Arne Bergstrom or Martin Hartog
World Relief works through local churches or agencies to
alleviate human suffering in the name of Christ. Since the war
began, WR has provided funding for projects in Croatia, Bosnia,
and Serbia through local NGOs and local churches. In 1995-96, WR
provided medical and food supplies to displaced people arriving
in Tuzla, and Mostar, Bosnia; food and bedding to refugees
arriving in Belgrade and Novi Sad; hot meals to refugees in
Osijek, Croatia; and counseling and rehabilitation services to
children and rape victims in Crkvenica and Celse, Croatia.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Croatia; Humanitarian Relief;
Mental Health; Refugee Assistance; Serbia; Vojvodina; Rape;
Women's Issues.
421 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60615
Tel: 312-663-4250
Fax: 312-431-0233
Contact: Robert Woito
The World Without War Council identifies individuals and
organizations in the U.S. with connections to the former
Yugoslavia, identifies democratic, human rights and
peace-oriented leaders and groups in former Yugoslavia and then
helps to establish links between the two. They want to help the
individuals and agencies in former Yugoslavia by linking them to
interested American organizations. The WWWC-Midwest has produced
Internal War: A Citizens Primer, which analyzes the causes and
examines the moral and ethical issues of five conflicts,
including the war in Bosnia. The WWWC also maintains an office in
Berkeley; see listing under CALIFORNIA.
Key words: Conflict Resolution; Education; Human Rights;
Peace/Anti-War; U.N.
Policy; U.S. Policy.
Indiana
Church World Service
P.O. Box 968
Elkhart, Indiana 46515
Tel: 800-762-0968
Since the beginning of the war, Church World Service has
delivered material aid to victims on all sides, including food,
clothes, health kits, and school kits. It also participates in
international dialogues seeking to help the religious communities
in former Yugoslavia work toward peace in the region. Through the
National Council of Churches, the agency has been helping U.S.
Protestants engage in public debate on U.S. policy choices in the
Balkan conflict.
Key words: Conflict Resolution; Education; Humanitarian Relief;
Refugee Assistance; Religious Community; U.S. Policy.
Kentucky
St. Joseph Peace Mission
c/o Mary Ann Haycraft
5057 Pleasant Valley Road
Philpot, Kentucky 42366
Tel: 502-281-5295
Fax: 502-684-2588
Email: aismidgett@acs.eku.edu
Web Site: http://www.cris.com/~Midgett/
Contact: Mary Ann Haycraft
The Peace Mission's aim is to provide necessities to refugees:
transportation for those needing medical assistance and shipments
of needed supplies and children's items. With a base in
Medjugorje, SJMR has organized a youth center in Drugi Rat,
Croatia, and a distribution center for aid in Graska, Bosnia,
where it also plans to open a medical dispensary. The Mission has
welcomed the heartfelt contributions of aid that come from small
communities, parishes and individual families in the United
States. The Mission's worker in the region, Maria, writes a
regular newsletter with stories of the local communities.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Croatia; Education;
Humanitarian Relief; Reconstruction; Refugee Assistance.
Maine
Alice Mead
Loose Cannon Press
9 Bea Lane
Cumberland, Maine 04021
Alice Mead is a Quaker and children's book author who seeks to
make the people of Kosovo/a and their situation more well-known
to Americans. In 1994 she traveled to Kosovo/a, following the
belief that the only way to end wide-scale violence is to seek
ways to humanize it. The result of her work is the book Journey
to Kosova. Alice works closely with the Kosovo/a Coalition Group
which meets periodically in Washington. She also distributes a
video about the Kosovo/a conflict, Kosova and the Death of
Yugoslavia.
Key words: Education; Human Rights; Kosovo/a; U.S. Policy.
195 Gray Road
Falmouth, Maine 04105
Tel: 207-871-8635
Fax: 207-773-0804
Email: jgenesio@aol.com
Contact: Jerry Genesio, President
The Children of War Rescue Project is a non-profit organization
that evacuates and provides free medical and surgical treatment
for child war victims around the globe. During the fighting in
former Yugoslavia, they provided this service to wounded children
from the Balkan war.
Key words: Children/Youth; Health; Humanitarian Relief.
Maryland
Adventist Development & Relief Agency (ADRA)
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, Maryland 20904
Tel: 800-424-ADRA
The Adventist Development & Relief Agency has provided
humanitarian aid to former Yugoslavia since 1991. Its most unique
contribution was to organize Sarejevo's mail delivery system,
working with more than 100 local volunteers. Because of its known
neutrality among all ethnic and religious groups, its convoys
were able to travel throughout the region on a regular basis. It
is involved in both immediate and long-term development
assistance.
Key words: Bosnia; Economic Development; Humanitarian Relief.
P.O. Box 17090
Baltimore, Maryland 21203
Tel: 800-736-3467
After providing $30 million in humanitarian assistance during the
war, Catholic Relief Services, in the wake of the peace
agreement, is dramatically increasing its support for
reconciliation work and for economic reconstruction, plus
providing mental health counselors with training in trauma
counseling. Much of the new support is directed at small
businesses. One CRS-initiated enterprise during the war was the
Sarajka Pasta Factory in Sarajevo which employed 500 people and
offered a high-protein alternative to the bread, beans and oil
which for so long was the bulk of people's diet. CRS works with
agencies from the Catholic, Muslim, Serbian Orthodox and Jewish
communities.
Key words: Bosnia; Conflict Resolution; Economic Development;
Humanitarian Relief; Mental Health; Reconstruction.
711 40th Street, Suite 306
Baltimore, Maryland 21211
Tel: 410-243-9820
Fax: 410-243-9824
Email: iocc@igc.apc.org
Web Site: http://www.omacess.com/wrlom/iocc
Contact: Samir Ishak, International Programs Manager
The International Orthodox Christian Charities organization
coordinates with the Serbian Orthodox Church to reach vulnerable
populations in need of relief, maintaining an established office
in Belgrade and a satellite office in Banja Luka. Assistance is
given solely on the basis of need. Recent activities include
providing food and clothing and medical supplies to refugees from
the Krajina and providing Serbian hospitals with infant formula,
medical supplies,and mental health kits.
Key words: Bosnia; Health; Humanitarian Aid; Mental Health;
Refugee Assistance; Serbia.
Massachusetts
Ed Agro
32 Robinwood Avenue #2
Boston, Massachusetts 02130
Tel: 617-524-2057
Fax: 508-356-8567
Email: pnbalkans@igc.apc.org or eagro@igc.apc.org
Ed Agro, Coordinator of the PeaceNet Balkans Desk, is a computer
activist who moderates electronic mail conferences, including the
popular
Key words: Computers; Education; Peace/Anti-war; Refugee
Assistance.
82 Washington Street
Northampton, Massachusetts 01060
Tel: 413-586-9690
Email: senechal@minkowski.smith.edu
Contact: Marjorie Senechal
Balkan Initiatives seeks to make the cultures of the Balkans
better known in the United States, working with affiliates
throughout the region to encourage peaceful change. This
includes Greek, Albanian, Romanian and Bulgarian cultures as well
as the regions and ethnic groups in former Yugoslavia.
Key words. Economic Development; Education; Women's Issues.
c/o Joyce McNeil
901 Pleasant Street
Framingham, Massachusetts 01701
Tel: 508-875-1546 (Joyce McNeil) or 508-626-9231 (Ed Herbert )
Email: rmcneil@ultranet.com
Contacts: Joyce McNeil or Ed Herbert
Bosnia Advocates of Metrowest (BAM) is an all-volunteer,
grassroots organization dedicated to helping the people of
Bosnia. By lobbying elected officials, by educating the American
people, and by participating in humanitarian aid campaigns, it
works to oppose genocide. BAM supports justice and peace for
multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Bosnia. Its activities have included
educational presentations, often in cooperation with other Bosnia
advocacy groups; organizing pro-Bosnia rallies; and lobbying
political leaders to bring war criminals to justice.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Genocide; Humanitarian Relief; U.S.
Policy; War Crimes Tribunal.
c/o Fine Arts Library, Harvard University
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Tel: 617-495-3372
Fax: 617-496-4889
Email: riedlmay@fas.harvard.edu and schick@lids.mit.edu
Web Site: http://www.applicom.com/manu/ingather.htm
Contact: Andras Riedlmayer
The Bosnia Manuscripts Ingathering Project gathers data on the
current locations of copies (photos, microforms, photocopies) of
Bosnian documents, manuscripts and works of art. It aims to help
Bosnian librarians and archivists in gathering copies to help
reconstruct destroyed originals to help with the recovery of
Bosnia's devastated cultural heritage. Its members also support
the prosecution of crimes against culture.
Key words: Art/Theater; Bosnia; Education; Reconstruction; War
Crimes Tribunal.
10 Kenmore Street S. #103
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Tel: 617-247-1883
Contact: Victoria Poupko
The Boston Group Against Ethnic Cleansing was founded in response
to the massacre in Srebrenica in July 1995. The Group organized a
2.5 ton shipment of food and clothing for the women and children
from Srebrenica who are now living in refugee camps around Tuzla,
Bosnia. It is now developing projects to support programs that
address the medical and emotional needs of the children in these
camps.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Humanitarian Relief; Mental
Health; Refugee Assistance; Women's Issues.
5 Upland Road, Suite 3
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
Tel: 617-497-7377
Fax: 617-491-5344
Email: rleavitt@tiac.net
Contact: Rob Leavitt
The Media and Conflict Program at the Center for War, Peace and
the News Media explores opportunities for the media to contribute
to peace in the Balkans. Its Global Reporting Network works to
improve U.S. media coverage of the war through briefings,
seminars, overseas briefings and the production of reference
materials. The Media and Conflict Program co-sponsors innovative
multi-ethnic reporting projects in the Former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia (see Search for Common Ground, DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA); and works to raise professional standards and improve
practices on reporting on ethnic conflict and minority issues in
Europe and the former Soviet Union (including Hungary, Romania,
and Albania). The Program is working on a book project with the
U.S. Institute of Peace that explores journalistic initiatives to
help lessen ethnic tension and conflict. The Center has
U.S.-based offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York City.
Key words: Conflict Resolution; Education; Macedonia; Media.
47 East Street
Hadley, Massachusetts 01035
Tel: 413-586-6450
Fax: 413-586-2415
Email: fob@crocker.com
Contacts: Glenn Ruga, Sharon Webb
Friends of Bosnia is a grassroots organization formed to educate
the public about the conflict in Bosnia, to provide a forum for
influencing U.S. policy regarding Bosnia, and to provide
humanitarian aid and assistance to war victims in Bosnia and the
U.S. FOB makes presentations to school groups and the general
public and has recently produced a photo documentary that is
posted on display panels and available for showing around the
country.
Key words: Art/Theater; Bosnia; Education; Humanitarian Relief;
Refugee Assistance; U.S. Policy.
100 Boylston Street, Suite 930
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
Tel: 617-482-2002
Fax: 617-482-0014
Email: vanchristo@frosina.org
Web Site: http://www.frosina.org
Contact: Van Sotir Christo
The Frosina Foundation provides counseling and referral services
to persons of Albanian origin who have emigrated to the United
States, and helps facilitate their integration into U.S. society.
It also seeks to educate others about Albanian history and
culture. It distributes monthly advisories and other
Albanian-oriented data and information.
Key words: Albanian community; Art/Theater; Education;
Humanitarian Relief; Refugee Assistance.
27 Ellsworth Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Tel: 617-491-5177
Fax: 617-491-6904
Email: irss@igc.apc.org
Contact: Paula Gutlove; Gordon Thompson
The Institute for Resource and Security Studies is an independent
nonprofit corporation which conducts technical and policy
analysis and public education to promote peace and international
security, efficient use of natural resources, and protection of
the environment. The IRSS Program on Promoting Understanding and
Cooperation complements the research work by working directly
with people holding diverse perspectives and interests to improve
communication, resolve conflicts, and promote cooperation. One
focus has been promoting nonviolent conflict management in
Central Europe and the Balkans; the Balkans Peace Project
facilitates workshops and dialogue sessions among citizens from
Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Macedonia. A new IRSS project,
Health Bridges for Peace, links health care with the prevention
and resolution of inter-communal conflict.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Conflict Resolution; Education;
Health; Inter-Ethnic Dialogue; Macedonia; Peace/Anti-war.
c/o Hartford Street Presbyterian Church
99 Hartford Street
Natick, Massachusetts 01760
Tel: 508-653-4839
Fax: 508-655-2585
Contact: Babbie Cameron
From 1994-1996, the Knitting Project gathered 60,000 pounds of
donated yarn and sewing supplies for women refugees on all sides
of the conflict in former Yugoslavia. This helped them by
providing work and the means of clothing their families, but also
enabled them to come together in groups and discuss their common
problems. The Knitting Project is now directing its efforts
toward supporting micro-enterprise initiatives in Croatia and
Bosnia. Flyer available.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Economic Development; Humanitarian
Relief; Refugee Assistance; Women's Issues.
54 Ellery Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02127
Tel: 617-269-5555
Fax: 617-464-4406
Email: ebrc@tiac.org
Attention: Nancy Coan.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Humanitarian Relief; Refugee
Assistance.
P.O. Box 3421
Nantucket, Massachusetts 02504
Tel: 508-325-4809
Contact: Camilla Warrender
100 Boylston Street, #702
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
Tel: 617-695-0041
Fax: 617-695-0307
Email: phrusa@igc.apc.org
Web Site: gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:5000/00/int/phr/about/
Physicians for Human Rights is an organization of health
professionals, scientists and concerned citizens that uses the
knowledge and skills of the medical and forensic sciences to
investigate and prevent violations of international human rights
and humanitarian law. In former Yugoslavia, PHR members
participate in the investigation of war crimes, push for the
right of civilians and combatants to receive medical care, and
work to stop disappearances and political killings by governments
and military factions.
Key words: Education; Health; Human Rights; U.N. Policy; U.S.
Policy; War Crimes Tribunal.
Building 200, 1 Kendall Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Tel: 617-621-9595
Fax: 617-621-8686
Contact: Guy Mayo
Project Bosnia is an emergency medical-relief project based on
the collaboration of concerned Americans with Bosnian physicians.
Besides general shipments of food, medicine, and medical
supplies, the Project has concentrated on major medical
equipment, such as two complete X-Ray rooms and one complete
Intensive Care Unit. Along with its medical work, Project Bosnia
carries out educational activities about Bosnia in the New
England region: Bosnia-support rallies, conferences, and an
exhibition of Children's War Art from Bosnia and Croatia. Project
Bosnia has donated short term professional services to the
medical community in Tuzla, Bosnia, and maintains a permanent.
representative in Tuzla.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Computers; Education; Health;
Humanitarian Relief.
Scientific Assistance Project
872 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 2-1
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Tel: 617-868-3510
Fax: 617-868-7916
Email: savre@sabre.org
Contact: Tania Vitvitsky
Sabre Foundation is a donor of English-language materials in the
former Eastern bloc. It is distinctive in book donation work for
its emphasis on new books in current editions and the use of the
Internet to allow recipients to select titles and quantities
prior to donation. The Foundation is undertaking an effort to
help replace materials lost when the National and University
Library in Sarajevo and other Bosnian libraries were destroyed in
the war. Students at the University of Sarajevo Department of
Librarianship will manage the book selection and distribution as
part of their in-service training program.
Key words: Bosnia; Computers; Education; Reconstruction.
c/o Ed Agro
32 Robinwood Avenue #2
Boston, Massachusetts 02130
Tel: 617-524-2057
Fax: 508-356-8567
Email: pnbalkans@igc.apc.org or eagro@igc.apc.org
Contact: Ed Agro
Sarajevo Pony Express (SPE/PISMA) forwards mail when the
ordinary modes (postal mail, telephone) are unavailable. As post
and telephone are being restored in Bosnia, SPE/PISMA is mainly
carrying mail from isolated refugee camps which have no Red Cross
help.
Key words: Bosnia; Diaspora; Refugee Assistance.
Michigan
Ann Arbor Committee for Bosnia
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Tel: 313-572-7276 x9
Contact: Daniela Wittman
17011 West Hickory
Spring Lake, Michigan 49456
800-968-7490
International Aid has been providing emergency aid to victims of
the war in Bosnia for four years: blankets, food, and medical
supplies such as antibiotics. IA is developing plans to restore
the emergency and surgical units of the Kosovo Hospital in
Sarajevo and raising funds for rehabilitation assistance.
Key words: Bosnia; Health; Humanitarian Relief; Reconstruction.
44450 Pinetree Drive, Suite 201
Plymouth, Michigan 48170
Tel: 800-55-MERCY; 313-454-0011
Fax: 313-454-0303
Email: mercy@umcc.umich.edu
Web Site: http://www.umcc.umich.edu/~omh/Mercy/Mercy.html
Mercy International is a relief organization dedicated to
alleviating human suffering worldwide. Many MI programs involve
supporting local food production, providing seed packages and
agricultural material to help small farmers rebuild after war and
disaster. In Bosnia, recent efforts include a poultry project and
a dairy farm effort in Tuzla and a rabbit farm in Zenica which
distributed rabbits for breeding to 2500 local families.
Key words: Bosnia; Economic Development; Humanitarian Relief;
Reconstruction.
P.O. Box 130146
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48113
Minnesota
American Refugee Committee
2244 Nicollet Avenue, Suite 350
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404
Tel: 612-872-7060 (days) Hotline: 1-800-329-4447
Fax: 612-872-4309
Email: kraus024@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Web Site: http://www.charity.org/arc.html
Contact: John Wingate
The American Refugee Committee has been working in former
Yugoslavia since 1993. ARC promotes reconciliation through war
reconstruction projects in Bosnia. ARC staff also provide
critically needed trauma counseling and primary health care to
displaced persons at several sites in Bosnia and Croatia. ARC's
quarterly publication, Bridges, covers ARC work in eleven
countries in Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
Key words: Bosnia; Health; Humanitarian Relief; Human Rights;
Mental Health; Peace/Anti-War; Refugee Assistance;
Reconstruction.
St. Paul, Minnesota
Tel: 612-871-6350
Fax: 612-871-0630
Contact: Rev. Joan Dehzad
400 Second Avenue South, Suite 1050
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401
Tel: 612-341-3302
Fax: 612-341-2971
Email: mnadvocates@igc.apc.org
Web Site: http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/mnadvocates
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights is a volunteer-based
organization that works on projects supporting the protection of
internationally recognized human rights. Minnesota Advocates
investigates and exposes human rights violations, represents the
victims of human rights abuses, trains and assists groups that
protect human rights, and seeks to educate the public, policy
makers,and children about human rights. One of its programs, The
Women's Project, has focused on domestic violence in the Balkans.
In 1996, the Women's Project co-sponsored an Inter-Balkan
workshop on domestic violence with women's groups from Albania,
Bulgaria, Macedonia and Romania. As part of its program, in
1996-97, the Project will investigate and document domestic
violence as a human rights abuse in Macedonia.
Key words: Education; Human Rights; Macedonia; Women's Issues.
Missouri
Islamic African Relief Agency
Bosnia Program
P.O. Box 7084
Columbia, Missouri 65205
Tel: 314-443-0166
The Islamic African Relief Agency has worked with IARA in Bosnia,
reconstructing damaged schools and publishing school books. It
has helped to open a rehabilitation center to provide new
employment skills for war victims. IARA established an intensive
care unit, a primary school and health clinic. Through a
sponsorship program, IARA in the U.S. matches orphans with
American sponsors.
Key words: Children/Youth; Economic Development; Health;
Humanitarian Relief Reconstruction.
4018 Magnolia Place
St. Louis, Missouri 63110
Tels: 314-664-9920 or 314-977-3093
Fax: 314-977-3108
Email: mccartpg@sluvca.slu.edu
Contact: Patrick McCarthy
The St. Louis Bosnian Student Project seeks scholarships for
Bosnian students and provides general education assistance to the
local Bosnian refugee community of 3,000. The project works to
raise local public awareness about Bosnia, serves as a general
resource for the refugee population, and sponsors periodic events
in support of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Education; Exchanges; Refugee
Assistance.
New Hampshire
Bosnia and Herzegovina Education Fund
P.O. Box 207
Exeter, New Hampshire
Tel: 603-772-3202
Fax: 603-772-3496
Email: azzi@bluefin.net
Contact: Robert Azzi
The Bosnia and Herzegovina Education Fund was created to house
and educate Bosnian students of high school age in the United
States, due to the devastation of the educational system in
Bosnia. The Fund's mission is multifaceted: to resist ethnic
cleansing and genocide; to educate young Bosnians in order
prepare them to participate in the rebuilding of their country;
to break through the misguided public perceptions in the West
about Islam; and to show Bosnians that there are families in
America who are willing to open their homes in the face of the
horrors that have taken place in Bosnia. The program began with a
few families and soon spread throughout the United States with
donations and services provided by corporations, local school
boards, professionals, teachers and whole communities. This is
the central office; the regional office is in Petersburg,Virginia
(See listing under VIRGINIA).
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Education; Exchanges;
Genocide.
New Jersey
Americans for Bosnian Human Rights-New Jersey
277 W. Midland Avenue
Paramus, New Jersey 07652
This New Jersey office is part of a national network. The main
office is in Phoenix. For a full description, see the listing
for Americans for Bosnian Human Rights-Main Office under ARIZONA.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Education; Human Rights; Humanitarian
Relief; U.S. Policy.
P.O. Box 802 CM 532 - Drew
Madison, New Jersey 07940
Contact: Jennifer Gerlach
Email: jgerlach@drew.edu
Key words: Bosnia; Genocide.
Investigations and Research Service
P.O. Box 669
Princeton, New Jersey 08542
Contact: Mike Pellerin.
Key words: War Crimes Tribunal.
New Mexico
ARS Publica
535 Cordova, Suite 401
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
Tel: 505-988-1967
Fax: 505-988-4727
Email: mla95@aol.com
Contact: Merle Lefkoff
ARS Publica is a nonprofit organization specializing in
multi-party public dispute resolution. The organization offers
training and facilitation for inter-ethnic dialogue,
collaborative problem-solving, and conflict resolution. Among its
ongoing projects is "Ziva Voda" ("Living Waters"), Balkan Women's
Community Coexistence Project for women leaders in former
Yugoslavia. Twenty two women from 16 organizations throughout the
region are meeting in dialogue and learning skills for
implementing long-term change in ethnic relations at the
community level.
Key words: Conflict Resolution; Inter-Ethnic Dialogue; Women's
Issues.
New York
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
JDC-Bosnia Open Mailbox
711 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Tel: 212-687-6200
Fax: 212-370-5467
Contact: Susan Harris
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee has been
involved in relief efforts in former Yugoslavia since 1992. Its
work has fallen into three areas: rescue operations, humanitarian
relief, and refugee care. Working together with the Sarajevo
Jewish community's organization, La Benevolencija, AJJDC has
operated free pharmacies and developed a home-care program for
the city's elderly. The organization provided financial help,
housing and medical care for the 1800 Bosnian Jews who found
refuge in Belgrade and in Croatia. This included a self-help
venture called the Menorah Club whose members crocheted 5,000
kippot (skullcaps) with their own distinctive design to
distribute in the U.S. and throughout Europe.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Economic Development; Health;
Humanitarian Relief; Jewish Community; Refugee Assistance.
70 West 95th Street, Apt. 27G
New York, New York. 10025
Tels: 212-865-1767; 212-666-2556
Fax: 212-665-1684
Email: gwallman@igc.apc.org
Web Sites: http:/www.io.org/amnesty/ or
http/www.traveler.com/~hrweb/ai/ai.html
Contact: Karis Hall
Amnesty International is an international human rights
organization with grassroots membership organized into local
groups, student groups, and action networks. Members of the
Balkan Coordination Group serve as the strategists and experts in
the United States for activities focused in the Balkans. They
work with local AI groups around the U.S. that take action on
Balkan-related issues. The BCG-AI/USA seeks to improve human
rights in the Balkans, to influence the U.S. government, the
governments of former Yugoslavia and the U.N. to improve human
rights, to support the quest of justice through the War Crimes
Tribunal, and to support the rights of refugees. Amnesty Action
is published quarterly ($25).
Key words: Education; Human Rights; U.N. Policy; U.S. Policy; War
Crimes Tribunal; Women's Issues.
c/o Center for Social Change
Ethical Humanist Society
38 Old Country Road
Garden City. New York 11530
Tel: 516-741-7304
Contact: Elayne Gersten
Balkan Children in Exile is a grassroots group which began in
1993 to provide the necessities of life to children and their
families who were victims of the war in Bosnia. The
organization's founders raise funds primarily from concerned
citizens on Long Island, and seek to channel the funds to viable
grassroots organizations in Croatia and Bosnia. They give
particular attention to the needs of children.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Croatia; Humanitarian Relief;
Refugee Assistance.
American Friends Service Committee
New York Metropolitan Regional Office
Conflict Resolution Program
15 Rutherford Place
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212-598-0967
Fax: 212-529-4603
Email: afscnyc@aol.com
Contact: Jack Patterson
The Dialogue Project brings together expatriates from former
Yugoslavia currently living in the New York area who want to
break through the intentional isolation of the Serbian, Croatian,
Bosnian Muslim and Albanian ethnic communities. The Project uses
regular facilitated dialogue meetings and problem-solving
workshops. Since it began in 1992, it has also encouraged
collaborative projects such as an information fair (and
subsequent directory) for social service agencies in New York
City serving immigrants and refugees from former Yugoslavia.
Key words: Conflict Resolution; Diaspora; Education; Inter-Ethnic
Dialogue; Peace/Anti-war.
c/o Jill Sternberg
29 Dalewood Drive
Hartsdale, New York 10530
Tel: 914-428-7299
Fax: 914-428-7383
Email: jillberg@igc.apc.org
The Balkan Peace Team is an international project sending
long-term volunteers to support human rights and nonviolent civil
society in the territory of former Yugoslavia. BPT teams are
presently working in Croatia, and Serbia/Kosovo/a. Potential
volunteers apply to the Coordination Office in Minden, Germany.
Training sessions are usually held in Europe, but there are
occasional training sessions in the United States. Jill
Sternberg is available to speak about the work of Balkan Peace
Team and to answer questions from potential volunteers.
Key words: Croatia; Human Rights; Inter-Ethnic Dialogue;
Kosovo/a; Peace/Anti-war; Serbia; Trial-Watching.
Center for Psychology and Social Change
an affiliate of Harvard Medical School
c/o Nancy Roof
330 E. 46th Street
New York, New York 10017
Tel: 212-808-0469; 617-244-5375 (summer)
Contact: Nancy Roof
In responding to the call for humanitarian aid and trauma relief
in former Yugoslavia in 1993, the Balkans Trauma Project assessed
the needs of Croatian humanitarian organizations and found that
the most urgent unmet need was for concrete support to shore up
the health of the humanitarian service providers, exhausted by
overwork and chronic exposure to trauma. The Project organized a
team of U.S. professionals to design a comprehensive and
collaborative training program in secondary stress and burnout.
The essential points in these training sessions were compiled
and published in The Impact of War on Humanitarian Service
Providers; A Workbook on Secondary Traumatic Stress and Burnout.
Essential to the success of their effort was the Program's
partnership with local NGOs and service providers; the
continuation of the program has now been transferred to their
leadership.
Key words: Croatia; Education; Humanitarian Relief; Mental
Health.
American Friends Service Committee
New York Metropolitan Regional Office
Conflict Resolution Program
15 Rutherford Place
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212-598-0967
Fax: 212-529-4603
Email: afscnyc@aol.com
Contact: Jack Patterson
The Balkan Theater Project's aim is to create an opportunity for
individuals from the former Yugoslavia to process the trauma of
war through the performance of a classical text, Euripides' The
Trojan Women. After initial acclaimed public readings in 1996,
the Project has future plans for taking the play to schools where
it will be followed by audience discussion. The Project is a
collaboration between playwright and actress Ellen McLaughlin,
social worker Saralee Kahn, and the AFSC.
Key words: Art/Theater; Children/Youth; Conflict Resolution;
Diaspora; Mental Health; Peace/Anti-war.
c/o HCA/USA
PO Box 2391
New York, New York 10185
Tel: 212-982-9561
Fax: 212-529-4603
Email: doriew@igc.apc.org
Contacts: Dorie Wilsnack, Bill Weinberg
The Balkan War Resource Group is a group of journalists and peace
activists who seek to educate U.S. audiences about the conflict
in former Yugoslavia and the work of peace and human rights
groups in the region. In 1993, they produced War at the
Crossroads, a short history of the Balkan region. In 1992 and 94,
they produced War and Peace in the Balkans, A Resource Guide to
Ex-Yugoslavia. They launched an active campaign in support of the
Zitzer Spiritual Republic, a courageous community of draft
resisters from the Serbian army in one village. Their most recent
project is the production and distribution of Working for Peace
in the Balkans; A Guide to US Organizations, and the maintenance
of a data-base of US organizations involved in human rights,
peace,and humanitarian aid work in former Yugoslavia.
Key words: Computers; Education; Media; Peace/Anti-war.
Institute for European Studies
120 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853
Tels: 607-255-6754 (Weiss) and 607-273-9081 (Palmer)
Fax: 607-255-0021
Email: jhw4@cornell.edu (Weiss) and jrp9@cornell.edu (Palmer)
Contacts: Prof. John Weiss and John Palmer
The Bosnia Coordinating Committee, an Ithaca-based citizens group
made up mostly of students and faculty from Cornell University
and Ithaca College, is dedicated to helping restore peace in
Bosnia and improve the lives of the victims of the war through
political activism and humanitarian aid. Its activities include a
sister city project with Bihac, academic exchanges with the
University of Tuzla, humanitarian aid delivery, demonstrations,
and letter-writing campaigns. BCC takes a political stance that
the U.S. should shift its policy from one which partitions Bosnia
along ethnic lines to one supporting its development as a united,
multi-cultural, and democratic state.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Exchanges; Humanitarian Aid;
Peace/Anti-war; Reconstruction; U.S. Policy.
Fellowship of Reconciliation
521 North Broadway, Box 271
Nyack, New York 10960
Tel: 914-358-4601
Fax: 914-358-4924
Email: forbsp@igc.apc.org
Web Site: http://www.netaxs.com/~for/
Contacts: Helen Morgan; Doug Hostetter
The Bosnian Student Project was established to assist Bosnian
students who have been denied an education in the former
Yugoslavia due to ethnic cleansing or the war. They try to
interest U.S. colleges and universities in offering scholarships
to Bosnian students, then matching students and scholarships.
With the Dayton Agreement and ceasefire in Bosnia, BSP also began
organizing workcamps in Bosnia for U.S. and Bosnian participants.
The Project has produced a brochure, two information packets ($7
each), and two videos ($10).
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Conflict Resolution;
Education; Exchanges; Human Rights; Peace/Anti-war;
Reconstruction; Refugee Assistance.
296 Elizabeth Street, Suite 1F
New York, New York 10012
Tel: 212-677-2286
Fax: 212-529-2849
Email: bowery@aol.com
Web Site: http://www.peacenet.org/balkans/mandy.html
Contact: Mandy Jacobson
Bowery Productions is an independent documentary film and video
company that produces human affairs programs where the center
stage of activism is held by women. Their documentary Calling
the Ghosts: A Story About Rape, War and Women, bears witness to
women's experience of mass rape in the war in former Yugoslavia,
following the journey of two survivors of rape who have organized
to collect evidence of war crimes. Completed in 1996, the film is
the winner of the Nestor Almendros Award at the Human Rights
Watch Film Festival and it is the centerpiece of an Amnesty
International-USA nationwide tour and public education campaign
to insist that rape be prosecuted as a war crime.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Film/Video; Human Rights; Media;
Rape; War Crimes Tribunal; Women's Issues.
666 Broadway
New York, New York 10012
Tel: 212-614-6464
Email: ccr@igc.apc.org
Contacts Jennie Green, Beth Stephens
The Center for Constitutional Rights is involved in litigation,
advocacy, and education related to the violence and genocide
committed in former Yugoslavia. CCR is pursuing U.S. human rights
litigation against Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a class
action suit in the name of all women and men who suffered rape,
execution, and torture by the Bosnian Serb military forces. The
Center supports the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia, and advocates for the effective prosecution of
rape and other sexual violence, as well as preparing briefing
materials for the U.N. related to the prosecution of gender-based
crimes and the protection of victims and witnesses. CCR has also
worked with Bosnian refugees in the U.S. who have been threatened
or forced to relocate; the Center will actively work to identify
and prosecute attackers so that the U.S. may actually be a safe
haven for refugees and so that those who committed human rights
atrocities are kept out of the country, deported,or punished.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Genocide; Human Rights; Legal
Reform; Rape; Refugee Assistance; U.N. Policy; War Crimes
Tribunal; Women's Issues.
Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communication
New York University, 10 Washington Place
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212-998-7960
Fax: 212-995-4143
Email: manoff@is2.nyu.edu
Contact: Rob Manoff
The Media and Conflict Program at the Center for War, Peace and
the News Media explores opportunities for the media to contribute
to peace in the Balkans. Its Global Reporting Network works to
improve U.S. media coverage of the war through briefings,
seminars, overseas briefings and the production of reference
materials. The Media and Conflict Program co-sponsors innovative
multi-ethnic reporting projects in the Former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia (see Search for Common Ground, DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA); and works to raise professional standards and improve
practices on reporting on ethnic conflict and minority issues in
Europe and the former Soviet Union (including Hungary, Romania,
and Albania). The Program is working on a book project with the
U.S. Institute of Peace that explores journalistic initiatives to
help lessen ethnic tension and conflict. The Center has
U.S.-based offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York City.
Key words: Conflict Resolution; Education; Macedonia; Media.
John Jay College, City University of New York
899 Tenth Avenue, Suite 434
New York, New York 10019
Tel: 212-237-8429
Fax: 212-237-8468
Email: strozier@interramp.com
Contact: Charles B. Strozier
Working with academics and intellectuals, the Center on Violence
and Human Survival encourages the study of violence with an end
to promote peace. It has given particular attention to the
conflict in former Yugoslavia, examining the phenomenon of
genocide and how international institutions have responded to
this situation. The Center hosts conferences, sponsors visiting
scholars, and sponsors research projects.
Key words: Education; Genocide; Human Rights; Peace/Anti-War;
U.N. Policy; U.S. Policy.
15 Stone Street, 5th Floor
New York, New York 10004
Tel: 212-425-0680
Fax: 212-425-9737
Email: ciccicev@aol.com
Contact: Karin DiGia
Children in Crisis' primary projects are providing humanitarian
relief for orphans, elderly persons, and families through its
office in Tuzla; providing medical supplies to Tuzla Hospital;
and assisting with the search for missing children. The funds for
their work are raised in part by fundraising projects involving
artists.
Key words: Art/Theater; Bosnia; Children/Youth; Health;
Humanitarian Relief; Reconstruction; Refugee Assistance; Women's
Issues.
401 Broadway, Suite 1700
New York, New York 10013
Tel: 212-966-1545
Fax: 212-941-0413
Contact: Sheila Geist
The Coalition Against Genocide is a grassroots multi-cultural
coalition which, in support of Bosnia as a multi-ethnic state,
carries out public education activities and influences public
officials about the need for intervention to protect human rights
abuses. The group calls for enforcement of the Geneva Convention
and other international human rights protection statutes, for the
arrest of indicted war criminals by the War Crimes Tribunal, and
for broader recognition of rape as a war crime. The Coalition has
taken several government agencies to court to obtain, under the
Freedom of Information Act, electronic surveillance tapes taken
by satellite of Srebrenica in July 1995.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Genocide; Human Rights; Legal
Reform; Rape; U.N. Policy; U.S. Policy; War Crimes Tribunal.
330 Seventh Avenue
New York, New York 10001
Tel: 212-465-1004
Fax: 212-465-9568
Email: europe@cpj.org
Web Site: http://www.cpj.org/
The Committee to Protect Journalists is a nonpartisan, nonprofit
organization which monitors and protests abuses against working
journalists and their news organizations, regardless of their
ideology or nationality. CPJ staff track press conditions through
independent research, reports from the field, and fact-finding
missions. The work of CPJ's program for Central Europe and the
former Soviet Union includes a focus on press freedom issues in
the Balkans. CPJ is active in campaigns to support independent
journalists being harassed in Croatia (Feral Tribune) and in
Serbia (Radio B-92); it has also given special attention to the
lack of press freedom conditions in Bosnia despite their
guarantee under the Dayton Peace Accords.
Key words: Education; Media.
London Terrace, P.O. Box 20081
New York, New York 10021
Tel: 212-243-1967
Fax in Croatia: 385-20-411422 (Janey Hansell)
Contact: Susan Baldwin
Desa Dubrovnik helps women refugees develop cottage industries.
Custom work is done to order, including quilts, embroidery and
crocheted lace of all kinds. Decorators and designers are sought
as customers. The program now includes the revival of the
silkworm industry, and an inn which will serve the returning
tourist population.
Key words: Croatia; Economic Development; Humanitarian Relief;
Refugee Assistance; Women's Issues.
123 Prospect Place
Brooklyn, New York 11217
Tel: 718-789-5101
Manuela Dobos teaches Russian and Eastern European history at the
College of Staten Island, City University of New York. She is
active with campaigns to stop the destruction of Bosnia's
multi-ethnic society, with particular concern for the effect of
the war on women. Manuela is available for public speaking,
bringing her knowledge of the region's history and culture
together with her activism.
Key words: Education; U.S. Policy; War Crimes Tribunal; Women's
Issues.
375 West Broadway, 4th Floor
New York, New York 10012
Tel: 212-529-1556
Fax: 212-529-1571
Email: dow@igc.apc.org
Doctors of the World's activities in the former Yugoslavia are
centered in Kosovo/a, a formerly autonomous region within Serbia,
populated primarily by ethnic Albanians. Kosovo/a has along been
the poorest and most disease ridden area of the former Yugoslavia
- a condition that has worsened dramatically since the recent war
in Bosnia. Doctors of the Word's goal in the former Yugoslavia
is to provide much needed medical assistance while serving as a
catalyst for reconciliation and cooperation. Currently, the
organization is implementing a Maternal Infant Health Project, an
Anti-Tuberculosis Program and a Health and Nutrition Commodities
Distribution Project.
Key words: Children/Youth; Health; Humanitarian Relief; Kosovo/a.
11 East 26th Street, Suite 1904
New York, New York 10010
Tel: 212-679-6800
Doctors Without Borders (Medicins sans Frontieres) has been
working in former Yugoslavia since the war started. MSF teams
have supported medical facilities and distributed hygenic
supplies. MSF maintains a psychological training program for
Bosnian counselors and operates a live radio counseling program
for people who do not have direct access to help. Teams of
doctors and nurses are closely monitoring health and sanitary
conditions of people returning and resettling in their homes.
Key words: Bosnia; Health; Humanitarian Relief; Mental Health;
Reconstruction; Refugee Assistance.
815 Second Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Tel: 212-334-7626, ext. 5179
In its humanitarian assistance, the Episcopal Church's Presiding
Bishop's Fund for World Relief helped purchase a mobile clinic to
help treat and provide trauma counseling to women and children.
It also contributes medical supplies and food. It works though
ecumenical agencies when there is no Anglican connection.
Key words: Children/Youth; Health; Humanitarian Relief; Mental
Health; Women's Issues.
P.O. Box 20646, Columbus Circle Station
New York, New York 10023
Tel: 212-586-0906
Fax: 212-586-1611
Email: equalitynow@igc.apc.org
Contact: Surita Sandoshan, Executive Director
Equality Now works to highlight human rights violations against
women in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to call for an end to these
violations and for the prosecution of those responsible. The
organization is currently campaigning for the arrest of Radovan
Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. Equality Now produces brochures and
reports on these and other issues of concern to women.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Human Rights; Rape; War Crimes
Tribunal; Women's Issues.
Photo Perspectives
32 Union Square East
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212-614-3083 or 684-1578
Web Site:
http://www.i3tele.com/photo_perspectives_museum/faces/exhibition.html
Contact: Aaron Schindler
Faces of Sorrow is a photo exhibit from the conflict in former
Yugoslavia which was originally a museum exhibition and is now an
Internet exhibition. Photo Perspectives' intention is to give
face to the faceless and voice to the victims of this devastating
war. Faces of Sorrow offers an indisputable pictorial witness to
the searing effects of man's inhumanity to mankind. The more than
50 photographs by 36 photojournalists from 14 countries depict
acts of destruction waged by the warring parties from the
beginning of the war in Croatia in 1991 through the recent Dayton
Peace Accord in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Key words: Art/Theater; Computers; Education.
Project on Justice in Times of Transition
1270 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 609
New York, New York 10020
Tel: 212-332-2890
Fax: 212-332-2898
Contacts: Sara Zucker, Tim Phillips
The Project on Justice in Times of Transition seeks to provide
the key players from the three warring communities in Bosnia with
exposure to the relevant experiences of leaders from other
countries that have recently faced similar obstacles in the
aftermath of a violent civil conflict. A major effort in this
regard is a workshop on reconciliation in Bosnia, scheduled for
November 1996, which is to bring Bosnian leaders together with
leaders from El Salvador, Israel and Palestine, South Africa and
Northern Ireland. The workshop is structured to create an
environment in which Bosnians can begin to open their minds to
the possibility of working with former enemies. It will address
specific questions about ways to create stability and eventually
to establish the trust necessary to rebuild their community.
Key words: Bosnia; Conflict Resolution; Inter-Ethnic Dialogue;
Peace/Anti-war; Reconstruction.
P.O. Box 814, Lincolnton Station
New York, New York 10037
Contact: Aisha al-Adawiya.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; U.N. Policy; U.S. Policy.
c/o Marina Komarecki
575 Main Street #903
New York, New York 10044
Contact: Marina Komarecki
Friends of B-92 is a U.S.-based organization created to support
one of the few independent media outlets in Serbia and to make
Americans more aware that there are journalists and citizen
groups in Serbia opposed to the government's policies. B-92 is an
independent radio station in Belgrade. It is one of the few
sources of independent radio news coverage as well as an
important voice of support for youthful art and culture in the
region. While other media outlets have been closed down by the
government, B-92 journalists and editors continue to withstand
threats of closure and arrest for their work, even going so far
as to expand their work to include publishing, film, CD
production, and Internet projects.
Key words: Art/Theater; Computers; Education; Film/Video; Media;
Serbia.
61 Eighth Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11217
Tel: 718-230-8448
Fax: 212-230-1443
Contacts: Diana Coryat; Susan Siegel
Global Action Project works with young people in the United
States and in refugee camps in Croatia on an international
videoletter project. They worked with Bosnian teenagers living in
a refugee camp in Croatia to produce Kolaps, where the young
people send a message to the world about the upheaval of their
lives. Turning the camera onto themselves, they describe their
experiences of the war, of life in a refugee camp, and of their
hopes for the future. The project provides training in
videotaping and other communication skills. The videoletters are
then distributed to schools, museums, television stations, and
conferences; they are accompanied by a teacher's guide.Key words:
Bosnia; Children/Youth; Croatia; Education; Film/Video; Media;
Refugee Assistance.
1600 Broadway, #700
New York, New York 10019
Tel: 212-246-0202 (Rights and Wrongs)
Fax: 212-246-2677 (Rights and Wrongs)
Email: rights@igc.apc.org
Web Site: http://www.igc.apc.org/globalvision/
Contact: Danny Schechter
Globalvision is an independent television and film production
company. Its first series was a TV news magazine, South Africa
Now; its second news magazine, Rights and Wrongs: Human Rights
Television offers analytical and caring reporting on global human
rights issues. Rights and Wrongs provides extensive coverage of
human rights issues in former Yugoslavia: ethnic conflicts in
Kosovo/a; the siege of Sarajevo; ethnic cleansing; safe havens
and the fall of Srebrenica; and the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal.
Globalvision (ONE WORLD) has also produced two special
documentaries on the war available on video: Sarajevo Ground Zero
(with SAGA, the film makers of Sarajevo) and Yellow Wasps:
Anatomy of a War Crime(co-produced with Tamouz Productions).
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Film/Video; Human Rights; Media;
War Crimes Tribunal.
P.O. Box 2391
New York, New York 10185
Tel: 212-982-9561 (Wilsnack) 215-386-5538 (Feffer)
Email: doriew@igc.apc.org
Contacts: Dorie Wilsnack, John Feffer
Helsinki Citizens Assembly/USA is the U.S. chapter of an
international coalition of activists who seek to strengthen civil
society in Europe by building democratic structures "from below."
HCA/USA supports people who are struggling in the former
Yugoslavia to keep civic values alive and seeks to keep
interested Americans informed about their work. The group's
primary activity has been to host public forums and speaking
tours for visiting activists and researchers. Upcoming plans
include public education on human rights abuses facing the Roma
community (Gypsies) in the Balkans and throughout Europe. HCA/USA
also sponsors special projects such as a campaign to support
Radio Zid in Sarajevo and most recently, the production of
Working for Peace in the Balkans; A Guide to U.S. Organizations.
Key words: Education; Human Rights; Peace/Anti-war; Roma; U.N.
Policy; U.S. Policy.
New York, New York 10017
Tel: 212-972-8400
Fax: 212-972-0905
Email: hrwnyc@hrw.org
Human Rights Watch/Helsinki monitors and promotes domestic and
international compliance with the human rights provisions of the
1975 Helsinki Accords. It has conducted regular, systematic
investigations of human rights abuses in the states and regions
of former Yugoslavia, where it has documented and denounced
murders, disappearances, torture, arbitrary imprisonment, and
other abuses of internationally recognized human rights. Based on
its documented published reports, HRW/H addresses public
challenges to governments and international institutions.
Key words: Education; Human Rights; U.N. Policy; U.S. Policy.
P.O. Box 2617
New York, New York 10185
Tel: 212-688-1451
Fax: 212-371-4054
Email: uswarreport@igc.apc.org
Contact: Ian Williams
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting is an independent
conflict-monitoring and media-support nonprofit organization
working to inform the international debate on conflict and
provide a platform and other support for voices of moderation
caught in war. Since war first broke out in former Yugoslavia,
IWPR has made the Balkan conflict a primary focus, seeking to
provide a channel for independent journalists reporting from
throughout the region. The Institute provides special training
opportunities for journalists in the region, publishes a monthly
magazine, WarReport, ($45.00 per year) and is conducting two
special projects, one related to the War Crimes Tribunal and the
other monitoring the role of the media in the Bosnian elections.
While the IWPR is based in London, it also maintains an address
and an editor based in New York.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Media; U.N. Policy; War Crimes
Tribunal.
811 Maple Road
Williamsville, New York 14221
Tels: 716-626-1593; 716-859-2248
Fax: 716-859-2885
Email: nielsb@aol.com
Contacts: Jacob Bergsland, M.D. 100 High Street, Buffalo, New York 14203
or Dr. Riaz Hassanali, Tel: 716-626-1593
The goal of International Medical Relief of Western New York is
to provide medical assistance to civilians trapped in wars, civil
disturbances and major natural and man-made catastrophes. They
consider their effort a model for how a community can reach out
and make a difference throughout the world. To assure efficiency,
IMR limits its focus to one or two projects; the currently focus
is in Bosnia and Croatia. They have established a medical
exchange program with the hospital in Tuzla, delivering medical
equipment and organizing an exchange of physicians.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Exchanges; Health; Humanitarian
Relief; Reconstruction.
122 East 42nd Street, 12th Floor
New York, New York 10168
Tel: 212-551-3000
International Rescue Committee has country offices in Bosnia,
Croatia, and Serbia. Its activities include reconstruction
projects such as upgrading buildings; upgrading water and gas
infrastructure; the provision of emergency relief supplies;
medical and mental health programs; food and seed distribution;
and special care for war-injured children. IRC operates a joint
resettlement processing program based in Zagreb, helping refugees
with paperwork for resettlement.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Croatia; Health; Humanitarian
Relief; Mental Health; Reconstruction; Refugee Assistance;
Serbia.
884 Chestnut Ridge Road
Chestnut Ridge, New York 10977
Tel: 914-356-0588
Fax: 914-356-2452.
Key words: Bosnia; Humanitarian Relief.
P.O. Box 723, Cathedral Station
New York, New York 10025
Tel: 212-496-4550
Email: jag@tiac.net
Web Site: http:\\www.tiac.net\users\jag
Contacts: Sharon Silber, Meryl Zegarek
Jews Against Genocide/New York Committee to Save Bosnia is a
multi-ethnic all-volunteer group lobbying politicians to lift the
arms embargo on Bosnia and to pressure the U.S. government not to
appease the aggressors and perpetrators of genocide. JAG/ACSB
advocates full support of the War Crimes Tribunal. The group
distributes educational materials, lists of suggested actions
that concerned individuals can take, and two videos. It operates
a 24-hour recorded phone line about Bosnia-related activities,
provides speakers for conferences and teach-ins, and organizes
teach-ins, demonstrations, and theatrical productions. It also
collaborates on campaigns with humanitarian organizations.
Key words: Art/Theater; Bosnia; Education; Genocide; Jewish
Community; U.S. Policy; War Crimes Tribunal.
330 Seventh Avenue, 10th Floor
New York, New York 10001
Tel: 212-629-6170
Fax: 212-967-0916
Email: nyc@lchr.org
Contact: Jelena Pejic
The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights works to protect and
promote internationally recognized human rights by strengthening
the legal enforcement mechanisms and supporting non-governmental
organizations working in the field. LCHR helps establish national
laws consistent with human rights standards and treaties;
promotes the development of independent human rights
organizations; protects and supports human rights lawyers and
advocates; provides legal assistance to victims of human rights
violations seeking asylum in the U.S.; and critiques, monitors
and influences the international systems designed to protect
human rights. The LCHR's Europe program is primarily focused on
two issues in the former Yugoslavia: war crimes and
citizenship/statelessness. The LCHR provides the International
War Crimes Tribunal with legal services and has laid the
groundwork for monitoring domestic war crimes trials; it will be
conducting trial observation missions. The LCHR has conducted
field work on citizenship and statelessness in former Yugoslavia
and prepared a detailed report, with recommendations for changes
in citizenship legislation.
Key words: Citizenship; Education; Human Rights; Legal Reform;
Refugee Assistance; Trial-Watching; U.N. Policy; War Crimes
Tribunal.
P.O. Box 92949
Rochester, New York 14692
Tel: 800-LWR-LWR2
Lutheran World Relief helps displaced and refugee populations in
northern and central Bosnia and eastern and central Croatia. Aid
includes food parcels for teachers, seeds and fertilizers for
farmers, refugee housing, and repairs for war-damaged schools and
homes. LWR is also supporting refugees from former Yugoslavia who
are now in Hungary.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Humanitarian Relief; Reconstruction;
Refugee Assistance.
Theater Three Collaborative, Inc.
289 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11205
Tel: 718-789-5404
Fax: 212-998-1855
Karen Malpede is playwright and director who uses theater to
explore the human psyche as it intersects with history. Her play,
The Beekeeper's Daughter, addresses the violence done to women in
the war in Bosnia. This is not a play about what is going on in
Bosnia, but about how Bosnia plays in the world outside, about
what happens when violence infiltrates worlds that were supposed
to be "protected." Malpede is involved in an inter-disciplinary
study of "witnessing," a practice well-known in work with
survivors of violence as an important part of the healing
process, and she seeks ways to help the benumbed American public
come to terms with the genocide in Bosnia which they casually
witnessed in the media.
Key words: Art/Theater; Bosnia; Education; Genocide; Media;
Mental Health; Peace/Anti-war; Women's Issues.
c/o Bob McGlynn
528 Fifth Street
Brooklyn, New York 11215
Tel: 718-499-7720
Contact: Bob McGlynn
Neither East Nor West works in solidarity with alternative
political campaigns in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union, particularly with pacifist/anarchist groups, squatter
campaigns, and the rock music scene. They carried out an active
campaign to support Serbian draft resisters in the Zitzer
Spiritual Republic (Vojvodina) and continue to rally public
attention for human rights, independent media, and draft
resistance in the Balkans, periodically publishing On Gogol
Boulevard.
Key words: Art/Theater; Education; Human Rights; Media;
Peace/Anti-War; U.S. Policy; Vojvodina; Women's Issues.
888 Seventh Avenue, 31st Floor
New York, New York 10106
Tel: 212-757-2323
Fax: 212-974-0367
Email: osnews@sorosny.org
Web Site: http://www.soros.org
Philanthropist George Soros has established independent nonprofit
foundations in each of the countries of the former Yugoslavia:
Open Society Fund-Bosnia and Herzegovina; Open Society
Institute-Croatia; Open Society Institute-Macedonia; Open Society
Institute-Slovenia; and the Fund for an Open Society-Yugoslavia.
These organizations share the common mission of fostering the
development of open society. To this end, they operate and
support an array of programs in education, civil society,
economic reform, independent media, Internet communications,
publishing, human rights, humanitarian aid, arts and culture, and
social and legal reform. The foundations in the former Yugoslavia
are part of an informal network of autonomous nonprofit
foundations created and funded by Mr. Soros in 22 countries. The
Open Society Institute-New York assists these foundations and
organizations by creating regional programs on common issues and
by providing administrative, financial, and technical support.
Key words: Bosnia; Computers; Croatia; Economic Development;
Education; Humanitarian Relief; Human Rights; Kosovo/a;
Macedonia; Montenegro; Media; Reconstruction; Refugee Assistance;
Roma; Serbia; Slovenia; Vojvodina.
P.O. Box 1640, Cathedral Station
New York, New York 10025
Tel: 212-666-5924
Fax: 212-662-5892
Contact: Jennifer Scarlott
The Sarajevo Fund is a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation set up
to assist in the reconstruction of a democratic multi-ethnic
Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is administered by an independent and
international group of citizens. The Fund has two projects: one
is to assist some of the 25,000 permanently war-disabled people
of Bosnia to reconstruct their lives, and the second is to aid in
the reconstruction of a new National and University Library in
Sarajevo.
Key words: Bosnia; Health; Humanitarian Aid; Mental Health;
Reconstruction.
1773 Lexington Avenue #5
New York, New York 10029
Tel/Fax: 212-369-9197
Email: iskoric@igc.apc.org
Web Site: http://www.igc.apc.org/balkans/
Ivo Skoric is a peace and human rights activist and journalist
who was involved in the development of anti-militarist efforts in
Croatia before the war. He is the creator of PeaceNet's Balkans
web page and moderator of
Key words: Art/Culture; Computers; Croatia; Education; Media;
Peace/Anti-war.
Prof. William Hunt, Department of History
St. Lawrence University
Canton, New York 13617
Tel: 315-379-5212
Fax: 315-379-5803
Email: whun@music.stlawu.edu
Contact: William Hunt
The Solidarity Project of St. Lawrence University has been
working for the past two years to assist the reconstruction of
democratic, multi-ethnic culture in Bosnia, principally through
the donation of educational materials such as books, films,
software, and computers. At present, the Project is particularly
seeking donations of computers in good working order.
Key words: Bosnia; Computers; Education; Media; Reconstruction.
c/o Scott Johnson
182 Ashland Avenue
Buffalo, New York 14222
Email: stj@acsu.buffalo.edu
Contacts: Scott Johnson or Jay Ovsiovitch
Tribunal Watch is an electronic mailing list which has been
organized to facilitate intellectual and activist dialogue
regarding the International War Crimes Tribunal for Former
Yugoslavia. Besides regularly posted articles and press reports,
participants can post messages and ask questions to each other
about legal and political issues surrounding the Tribunal.
Key words: Computers; Education; Human Rights; Legal Reform;
U.N. Policy; War Crimes Tribunal.
475 Riverside Drive, Room 350
New York, New York 10115
Tel: 800-554-8583
The United Methodist Committee on Relief is committed to
emergency relief programs, rebuilding traumatized lives and
helping communities rebuild. In Bosnia, UMCOR provides
pharmaceuticals; offers medical, occupational, and psychological
rehabilitation; supports cottage industry enterprises; helps
rebuild war-damaged housing; and helps to repatriate refugees.
Support comes from Methodists worldwide and UMCOR works in
cooperative partnership with government and other agencies and
NGOs.
Key words: Bosnia; Economic Development; Health; Humanitarian
Relief; Mental Health; Reconstruction; Refugee Assistance.
463 Broome Street
New York, New York 10013
Tel: 212-226-0631
Fax: 212-219-2585
Email: threewib@aol.com
Web Site: http://www.nyu.edu/classes/mckenzie/3wb/index.html/
Contact: Duston Spear
3 Women in Black holds vigils in New York City against war and
the violence it does to women in particular, following the model
set by the Belgrade anti-war group, Women in Black, who took
their inspiration from Women in Black in Israel. A sponsored
project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, 3 Women in Black
creates multi-media installations using the images of three women
dressed in historic black mourning clothes. Women in Black has a
zine and a video available.
Key words: Art/Theater; Education; Human Rights; Peace/Anti-War;
Serbia; Women's Issues.
122 East 42nd Street, 12th Floor
New York, New York 10168
Tel: 212-551-3088
Fax: 212-551-3186
Email: wcrwc@intrescom.org
Web Site: http://www.hypernet.com/wcrwc.html
Contact: Mary Diaz
The Women's Commission speaks on behalf of refugee and displaced
women and children who have a critical voice in bringing about
change, but do not have access to governments and policy makers.
The Commission has sent five fact-finding delegations to former
Yugoslavia whose members have returned to present their
observations to government leaders and the media. The Commission
also sponsors a Knitting Project for women refugees ( see
separate listing under MASSACHUSETTS).
Key words: Children/Youth; Economic Development; Education; Human
Rights; Refugee Assistance; Women's Issues.
North Carolina
Dan Besse
P.O. Box 15306
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27113
Tel/Fax: 910-722-1674
Dan Besse was the first Chair of the American Committee to Save
Bosnia. He has made research trips to Bosnia and Croatia, and is
available to speak to groups in North Carolina about politics and
policies relevant to the region.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; U.S. Policy.
P.O. Box 4088
Greensboro, North Carolina 27404
Tel: 910-288-0013
Email: 72470.2251@compuserve.com
Contact: Nick Divitci
Ohio
The Organization Development Institute
781 Beta Drive, Suite K
Cleveland, Ohio 44026
Tel: 216-461-4333
Fax: 216-729-9319
Email: donwcole@aol.com
Web Site: http://members.aol.com/odinst
Contact: Dr. Donald Cole
The Organization Development Institute is a nonprofit educational
association of professionals in the fields of Organization
Development, psychology, and social science who work for the more
effective development of organizations and collective behavior.
Members give serious attention to conflict resolution techniques.
Since the war in former Yugoslavia began, O.D. Institute members
have worked with local professionals to organize training
sessions for refugee camp administrators; have invited Croatian
and Serbian doctors and psychologists to the U.S. for
conferences, and have created Peace Making Teams to help
conceptualize conflict resolution solutions.
Key words: Conflict Resolution; Education; Mental Health.
c/o Mark Moffett
4231 North Lockwood Avenue
Toledo, Ohio 43612
Tel: 419-478-2264
Fax: 419-537-6951 (Attn. Kathy Vierling)
Similar Spaces, Distant Places is a community art and youth
participation project initiated by artist Mark Moffett. Its aim
is to provide a creative environment where children of diverse
cultures work on a common artistic project, the decoration of
forms derived from the Yurt, a dwelling structure found in many
societies. The project involves youth from Toledo, Ohio and
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in decorating the forms with
paint and colorful materials and then using them in local parades
and celebrations. The project is coordinated with the Boys and
Girls Club of East Toledo and Mladi Most, a youth center project
in Mostar. The activities in both cities will be documented on
film and the forms later exhibited; the final product will be a
portrait of the creative journeys made by the artist and the
children, their unique contributions and their common threads.
Key words: Art/Theater; Bosnia; Children/Youth; Film/Video.
Oregon
Mercy Corps International
Balkan Relief Campaign
3030 SW First Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97201
Tel: 503-242-1032, ext 190
Mercy Corps has a team in Bosnia working to plan programs that
will strengthen the Bosnian Federation. MCI will use its
expertise in linking democracy-building initiatives to
humanitarian assistance. MCI is currently working in some Bosnian
cities to provide essential medicines and supplies, detergent and
hygiene parcels. In Kosovo/a and Montenegro, it provides
humanitarian aid and micro-enterprise opportunities. It works
closely with the Mother Theresa Society of Kosovo/a in providing
medical care.
Key words: Bosnia; Economic Development; Health; Humanitarian
Relief; Kosovo/a; Montenegro; Reconstruction.
1819 N.W. Everett
Portland, Oregon 97209
Tels: 503-224-5190; 503-288-8958
Fax: 503-246-2399
Contact: Yvonne Simmons
This is a U.S. organization actively supporting two peace
activities in the Balkans: Peace Journey and the Sarajevo Peace
Centre. The U.S. group seeks to work for peace in the Balkans,
emphasizing nonviolent means, by working with these local
efforts.
Key words: Education; Human Rights; Humanitarian Relief:
Peace/Antiwar; U.S. Policy; Women's Issues.
1819 N.W. Everett
Portland, Oregon 97209
Tels: 503-224-5190; 503-288-8958; 503-289-2097 (Hollingsworth)
Fax: 503-246-2399
Contacts: Yvonne Simmons, Pat Hollingsworth
Women in Black/Portland carries out activities in support of
Women in Black, a feminist anti-war organization in Serbia.
WIB/Portland follows the Belgrade group's practice of holding
regular silent vigils in public places where, dressed in black,
they provide a powerful image. Their aim is to speak for women
all over the world who seek an end to militarism and war.
Key words: Art/Theater; Education; Peace/Anti-war; Serbia;
Women's Issues.
Pennsylvania
American Friends Service Committee
East-West Program
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19012
Tel: 215-241-7188
Fax:215-241-7177
Email: msimmons@afsc.org
Contact: Michael Simmons
The East-West Program of the American Friends Service Committee
focuses its work on building civil society in Southeastern
Europe. Its programs concentrate on women's rights and the human
rights of Roma (gypsies) and other ethnic minorities Albania,
Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia. Staff
based in Budapest travel to former Yugoslavia regularly to meet
and work with local activists. Women from Croatia and Serbia were
part of a training seminar on confronting sexual harassment; Roma
from Macedonia participated in an three day seminar/exchange
between Roma and African Americans civil rights organizers. The
Program regularly produces written material to educate Americans
about the Balkan conflict, U.S. policy, and the work of
grassroots peace and human rights organizations in the region.
Key words: Education; Human Rights; Peace/Anti-war; Roma; U.S.
Policy; Women's Issues.
Yugoslav Relief Fund
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19012
Tel: 215-241-7086
Fax: 215-241-7177
The American Friends Service Committee established its Relief
Fund to meet humanitarian needs and to support peace groups in
the region. Humanitarian relief includes clothing, blankets,
shoes, and personal hygiene supplies for refugees and the needy
in Bosnia, Kosovo/a, and Serbia. In Croatia, Kosovo/a, and
Serbia, AFSC is raising funds to supply laptop computers,
printers, and fax machines to local peace and women's groups to
facilitate such work as counseling trauma victims.
Key words: Bosnia; Computers; Croatia; Education; Kosovo/a;
Peace/Anti-war; Refugee Assistance; Serbia; Women's Issues.
c/o Ted Herman
P.O. Box 125
Cornwall, Pennsylvania 17016
Tel: 717-273-6612
Fax: 717-274-8052
Email: t_herman@acad.lvc.edu
Contact: Ted Herman
The Balkans Peace Centre is based at the University of Sts. Cyril
and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia. Ted Herman, Emeritus Director
of Peace Studies at Colgate University, helped to establish the
Balkans Peace Centre, which has introduced the first peace
studies program in the Balkans. The Centre is setting up courses
in nonviolence and conflict resolution, translating materials
into Macedonian, and arranging exchanges between local teachers
and trainers from abroad. It is working directly with local women
refugees from Bosnia and looking for ways to bring clergy from
the different religions together. Ted Herman is available to
speak about this ground-breaking effort and about nonviolent
responses to war.
Key words: Conflict Resolution; Education; Exchanges; Macedonia;
Peace/Anti-war; Religious Community; Women's Issues.
Foundation Relief
Suite 305, 1501 Reedsdate Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15233
Tel: 412-321-3160
The Brother's Brother Foundation has provided humanitarian aid
and educational materials to every ethnic community in former
Yugoslavia. They have handled the distribution of food for
agencies like the Red Cross and provided wood burning stoves to
those in need in Croatia and Bosnia. They have also operated
feeding programs in Osijek, Croatia and Orasje, Bosnia, in
cooperation with the Lutheran World Federation.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Humanitarian Relief; Reconstruction;
Refugee Assistance.
c/o Michael A. Sells
Department of Religion
Haverford College
Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041
Tel: 610-896-1027 days; 610-645-0920 messages
Fax: 610-896-1224
Contact: Michael Sells
Email: msells@haverfor.edu
Web Site: http://www.haverford.students.edu/vfilipov.html
The Community of Bosnia supports a multi-religious and culturally
pluralistic Bosnia and seeks to help Bosnians in tangible ways,
through the Bosnian Student Project which helps secure
scholarships for Bosnia high school and college students, and the
Art and Culture Program which resists the attempt to annihilate
the traces of Bosnia's multi-religious past. The COBF Newsletter
is published bi-annually; subscriptions are $25.COB has made
information and graphic resources on human rights, education, and
culture in Bosnia available on its World Wide Web page.
Key words: Art/Theater; Bosnia; Education; Exchanges; Human
Rights.
P.O. Box 623
Abington, Pennsylvania 19001
Tel: 215-248-6480
Email: tkristel@aol.com
Contact: Todd Kristel
Friends of Bosnia is a coalition of Muslims, Christians, and Jews
that promotes public awareness and action of the crisis in Bosnia
and Herzegovina through speakers, materials, and contacts with
religious, ethnic, and social action groups.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Human Rights; Religious Community;
U.S. Policy; War Crimes Tribunal.
P.O. Box 623
Abington, Pennsylvania 19001
Tel: 215-246-6460
Email: tkristel@aol.com
Contact: Todd Kristel
Jews Against Genocide in Bosnia is an organization of concerned
Jews who support the people of Bosnia in their efforts to stop
the atrocities against their people, bring those responsible for
genocide to justice, and rebuild their nation as a multi-ethnic
and open democracy.
Key words: Bosnia; Education, Genocide; Human Rights, Jewish
Community; Reconstruction; U.S. Policy; War Crimes Tribunal.
P.O. Box 500. 21 South 12th Street
Akron, Pennsylvania 17501
Tel: 717-859-1151
Fax: 717-859-2171
Email: rb@mcc.org or hugerber@aol.com
Web Site: http://www.mennonitecc/ca/mcc/
Contact: Ray Brubacher, Hansulrich Gerber
The Mennonite Central Committee operates humanitarian aid
programs in coordination with local organizations such as Bread
of Life in Serbia and the Christian Information Service in
Croatia. Besides providing basic humanitarian needs, they have
distributed thousands of refugee kits with towels, combs, soap,
etc. and supported the development of a local economic
initiatives, such as a greeting card business. The Peace Office
creates written materials and videos to help Americans to
understand the conflict and the how people are experiencing the
war and its aftermath.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Economic Development; Education;
Humanitarian Relief; Peace/Anti-war; Refugee Assistance; Serbia.
299 North Spring Mill Road
Villanova, Pennsylvania 19805
Tel: 610-519-7078
Fax: 610-519-7033
Email: singis@law.vill.edu
Web Site: http://www.law.vill.edu/vcilp/bosnia/theplan.html
The Villanova University School of Law has undertaken the
development of a strategic plan for an Internet-based legal
infrastructure for Bosnia, a step in rebuilding Bosnian legal
institutions in the wake of war. Most law libraries, law books,
and copies of judicial decisions and statues were destroyed
during the war, and the most efficient path to a rule of law and
the restoration of civilian institutions of government is though
effective use of information technology. Project Bosnia has:
donated hundreds of computers and modems and established Internet
connections for Bosnian legal institutions; established training
programs to ensure that Bosnian attorneys and magistrates are
computer literate; and set up an exchange program for Bosnian law
students and faculty. It has developed plans for effective
Internet use by the human rights ombudsmen mandated by the Dayton
Accords; assisted in putting a database for missing persons on
the Internet; and created a plan for an Internet service provider
to small businesses. The Project has been a source of legal and
technical advice to Bosnian and U.S. government officials,
humanitarian aid organizations and other NGOs, and to
international funders including the World Bank.
Key words: Bosnia; Computers; Economic Development; Education;
Exchanges; Human Rights; Legal Reform; Reconstruction.
South Carolina
Americans for Bosnian Human Rights-Charleston
309 Meeting Street, #14
Charleston, South Carolina 29410
This Charleston office is part of a national network. The main
office is in Phoenix. For a full description, see the listing
for Americans for Bosnian Human Rights-Main Office under ARIZONA.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Education; Humanitarian Relief; Human
Rights; U.S. Policy.
c/o Melek Zimmer
12 Parkwood Avenue
Charleston, South Carolina 29403
Tel: 803-853-3180
Fax: 803-853-6495
PeaceWorks is a non-partisan, non-profit humanitarian
organization dedicated to helping children around the world who
are caught in the crossfire of warfare. PeaceWorks was founded as
a response to the war in former Yugoslavia and over the past
three years, it has procured, transported and distributed over
seventy tons of medical and school supplies to war torn Bosnia,
material contributed by U.S. corporations and 6,000 school
children. PeaceWorks is now building a Center in Charleston
which will serve as a place where people can come together from
around the world to organize projects which help children of war.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Health; Humanitarian Relief.
Tennessee
Nashville Peace Action
P.O. Box 121333
Nashville, Tennessee 37212
Tel: 615-321-9075
Fax: 615-320-8897
Contact: Lesley Hall
Through its work against militarism, Nashville Peace Action
helped organize two interfaith services on Bosnia in 1995. Its
work against the Balkan war is part of its general program on
issues of militarism, the arms trade, and military intervention.
NPA works through public education, public participation, and
legislative action.
Key words: Education; Peace/Anti-War; Religious Community; U.S.
Policy.
Texas
Bicycles to Bosnia
3333 Polk Street
Houston, Texas 77003
Tel: 713-880-5764
Email: artcars@aol.com
Contact: Tom Kennedy
Bicycles to Bosnia is collecting donated bicycles and shipping
them to the city of Mostar, Bosnia, where Mladi Most (Young
Bridge), an NGO, is based. The bicycles will then be decorated by
children; a bicycle parade is currently scheduled for June 1997.
Key words: Art/Theater; Bosnia; Children/Youth.
P.O. Box 868
Kyle, Texas 78640
Tel: 512-447-6222
Email: ffacs@igc.apc.org
Web Site: http://www.compassionate.org/
Contact: Sally Jacques
The Foundation for a Compassionate Society attempts to practice
feminist values of care and creativity on a social scale. Its
purpose is to create an alternative to paternalistic charity in
the creation of systemic social change to make a society itself
compassionate. Since early in the war, the Foundation has
collected and distributed medical supplies, baby formula,
vitamins and new thermal underclothing to several groups in
former Yugoslavia. It is now helping to develop a hospital link
between Austin and a community in Bosnia.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Health; Humanitarian Relief;
Peace/Anti-war.
P.O. Box 1763
Austin, Texas 78767
Tel; 512-990-1257
Email: charliej@igc.apc.org
Web Site: http://www.a2z.org/cj/bosnia/
Contact: Charlie Jackson
Texans for Peace is a project initiated by Charlie Jackson who
takes an active role in supporting peace making and humanitarian
aid efforts in Bosnia. Charlie seeks to build Texans for Peace
into an organization that will raise funds, provide training, and
prepare information on nonviolent action for Texans. His Relief
to Peace campaign has provided support in Tuzla, Bosnia, to
Children in Crisis, a direct aid organization (See listing under
NEW YORK) and to ZamirNet, an electronic bulletin board with
email connections to the rest of the world.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Computers; Education;
Humanitarian Relief; Peace/Anti-war.
Utah
Utahns for Bosnia
c/o Gunseli Berik
Economics Dept, University of Utah
308 BUC
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
Tel: 801-581-7435
Fax: 801-585-5649
Email: berik@econ.sbs.utah.edu
Contact: Gunseli Berik
Utahns for Bosnia works for a just and lasting peace in Bosnia.
UFB has been involved in information and letter-writing campaigns
to put pressure on the U.S. government, in order to ensure that
those indicted for war crimes are arrested and brought to trial
in the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; U.S. Policy; War Crimes Tribunal.
Vermont
Conflict Resolution Catalysts
P.O. Box 836
Montpelier, Vermont 05601
Tel: 802-229-1165
Fax: 802-229-1166
Email: gshapirocrc@igc.apc.org
Contact: Gary Shapiro
Conflict Resolution Catalysts's (CRC) mission in Bosnia is to
support and facilitate citizen peacemaking, community building,
open dialogue, reconciliation, and civil society development. CRC
assists local citizen groups in both political entities within
Bosnia, mainly in Sarajevo and Banja Luka. Core programs include
community centers; joint local/international Neighborhood
Facilitator teams to reduce tensions through mediation, human
rights monitoring, and trust-building activities in
neighborhoods; youth, culture and psychological support programs;
community-oriented media; and the facilitation of contacts
between citizens of the two political entities. CRC recruits and
trains international volunteers to assist these programs in
Bosnia.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Conflict Resolution;
Education; Human Rights; Inter-Ethnic Dialogue; Mental Health.
Virginia
Baptist World Alliance
6733 Curran Street
MacLean, Virginia 22102
Tel: 703-790-8980
Baptist World Aid hosted a roundtable in December 1995 for
Baptist leaders from Croatia and Serbia as well as Baptist
agencies. They agreed to keep working in Bosnia and the region
through the local agencies, providing relief goods and assistance
to refugees and displaced persons. Relief is also being provided
to the small Baptist community whose members fled the Krajina
last August.
Key words: Bosnia; Croatia; Humanitarian Relief; Refugee
Assistance; Serbia.
Bill and Jacqueline Poarch
2014 Woodland Road
Petersburg, Virginia 23805
Tel: 804-733-9795
Fax: 804-733-5212
The Bosnia and Herzegovina Education Fund was created to house
and educate Bosnian students of high school age in the United
States, due to the devastation of the educational system in
Bosnia. The Fund's mission is multifaceted: to resist ethnic
cleansing and genocide; to educate young Bosnians in order
prepare them to participate in the rebuilding of their country;
to break through the misguided public perceptions in the West
about Islam; and to show Bosnians that there are families in
America who are willing to open their homes in the face of the
horrors that have taken place in Bosnia. The program began with a
few families and soon spread throughout the United States with
donations and services provided by corporations, local school
boards, professionals, teachers, and whole communities. The Fund
is now exploring setting up a Sister Schools Program in Virginia
and Bosnia. This is the Fund's regional office; the central
office is in Exeter, New Hampshire (See listing under NEW
HAMPSHIRE).
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Education; Exchanges.
Box 178
Haymarket, Virginia 20168-0178
Tel: 703-606-9883
Fax: 703-754-1748
Email: EMRA@usa.net
Contact: Alan Potter or Program Director
The Emergency Medical Response Agency specializes in the location
and delivery of specifically requested medicines to the
individual patients who need them or the medical authority
administering them. It thus avoids the shortcomings of the more
usual inundation approach to medical relief, and makes more cost
effective use of its funds. EMRA has recently been asked by the
Bosnian Health Ministry to take over the provision of cancer
medicines for the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its
reputation for effectiveness is based on EMRA's history for
delivering medicines specifically to the points of need,
regardless of conditions in the area. Peter Deck of UNHCR has
said "When all other humanitarian organizations restricted their
movements during periods of intense fighting, EMRA was the only
relief team that would take the medicines through the front
lines."
Key words: Bosnia; Health; Humanitarian Relief; Refugee
Assistance.
9510 Lakewater Court
Richmond, Virginia 23229
Tel: 804-741-8802
Fax: 804-254-6009
Email: mcolglaz@leo.vsla.edu
Web Site: http://ahsc.arizona.edu/~lei/mla/journal2.htm
Contact: Merle L. Colglazier
JournalShare, through its Bosnia Project, is collecting and
shipping basic health sciences journals published in the last ten
years, to help with restoring the war-ravaged medical libraries
in Bosnia and other parts of the former Yugoslavia. JournalShare
is a non-profit journal broker seeking to distribute health
sciences journals to areas of need worldwide. The overseas
shipping for the Bosnia Project is being arranged by the
Emergency Medical Response Agency of Fredricksburg, Virginia (see
separate listing). Please contact the address above for
information on how to contribute and shipping instructions.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Health; Reconstruction.
World Alliance for Humanitarian Assistance for Bosnia
P.O. Box 23091
Alexandria, Virginia 22304
Tel/Fax: 703-370-0714
Contact: Beverly Britton
Lifeline Network for Peace was created to promote peace and
healing through body, mind, and spirit. The World Alliance for
Humanitarian Assistance for Bosnia was created to extend a
"lifeline" to Bosnia and Herzegovina by creating an international
network of groups working in humanitarian aid and human rights
advocacy. Lifeline projects have included placing war-wounded
Bosnian refugees in the U.S; sending medical professionals to
work in Bosnian hospitals; and distributing humanitarian aid .
Currently, the Healing Hands Project sends professionals
certified in therapeutic massage and physical and emotional
therapies to Bosnia in treatment teams to address Post Traumatic
Stress suffered by war zone survivors. The Children's Peace Quilt
Project, initiated after the Marketplace Massacre in Sarajevo,
now travels the world.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Education; Health;
Humanitarian Relief; Mental Health; Peace/Anti-war; Women's
Issues.
Eastern Mennonite Seminary
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22801
Tel: 540-432-4264
Fax: 540-432-4444
Email: shenkng@emu.edu
Gerald Shenk, a professor at Eastern Mennonite University, is a
specialist on the role of religion in former Yugoslavia. He
studied in Zagreb and Sarajevo and served as a lecturer at
Protestant theological institutions in Serbia and Croatia. He
speaks and writes widely in the United States, helping audiences
to understand the role that religion played in fostering the
conflict, and the role it can play in bringing peace and healing
to the region.
Key words: Conflict Resolution; Education; Peace/Anti-war;
Religious Community.
Washington State
Committee for MultiEthnic Bosnia
2318-2nd, Box 637
Seattle, Washington 98121
Tel: 206-324-7794
Email: fkorsboen@igc.apc.org
The Committee for MultiEthnic Bosnia supports the restoration of
Bosnia and Herzegovina as a unitary, democratic, pluralist, and
mutiethnic state, which ensures the full enjoyment of human and
civil rights for all of its residents. The Committee supports the
dismantling of ethnically-cleansed statelets of Croat and Serb
separatists, the return of refugees to their homes with security,
and foreign investment to rebuild and modernize the economy. To
the extent that the U.S. and U.N. are involved in Bosnia, the
Committee seeks to change their policies towards support for the
above measures.
Key words: Bosnia; Economic Development; Education; Human Rights;
U.N. Policy; U.S. Policy.
P.O. Box 2313
Friday Harbor, Washington 98250
Tel: 360-378-7089
Contact: James Lockwood.
Key words: Bosnia; Humanitarian Relief.
"I Am Your Witness" Campaign
P.O. Box 30918
Seattle, Washington 98103
Tel: 206-782-5662
Fax: 206-783-6071
Email: witness@accessone.com
Web Site: http:// wwwaccessone.~ witness
Contact: Cody J. Sontag
The "I Am Your Witness" Campaign raises money toward witness
protection for rape/genocide survivors, for women's groups in
Croatia and Bosnia serving refugees and displaced persons, and
for women artists, movie documentarians and writers. Witness
Update is published three times a year.
Key words: Art/Theater; Bosnia; Croatia; Education; Human Rights;
Rape/Genocide; Refugee Assistance; War Crimes Tribunal; Women's
Issues.
312 NW 85th Street, #111
Seattle, Washington 98117
Tel: 206-955-3669
Email: resq@cyberspace.com
Web Site: http://www.resq.org
Contact: Stephen Long
RES-Q Global Relief is an international humanitarian organization
whose mission is to provide emergency services, training and
supplies, as well as general relief assistance, to people and
organizations in need, without respect to political or religious
affiliation. RES-Q founder Stephen Long started RES-Q after
traveling in Bosnia during the war to help the needs of the
desperately under-equipped fire departments of the Balkans. RES-Q
collects good but decommissioned fire fighting equipment from
various cities and delivers them, along with training, to Bosnian
And Croatian fire departments. RES-Q also works with orphanages
and families to proved relief supplies and other assistance.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Education; Humanitarian
Relief; Reconstruction; Refugee Assistance.
5242 Rumac Street SE
Lacey, Washington 98513
Tel: 360-459-5340
Email: pamelacd@aol.com
Contact: Pam Crocker-Davis
Thurston County Citizens provide educational opportunities for
high school and university students from Bosnia.
Key words: Bosnia; Children/Youth; Education; Exchanges.
P.O. Box 9716
Federal Way, Washington 98063
Tel: 800-423-4200
Fax: 206-815-3446
Contact: Judy Jones
World Vision's multi-faceted rehabilitation program includes
small enterprise development, psycho-social training, vocational
training, reconstruction of war-damaged homes and schools and
relief preparedness. Reconciliation is an integral component of
every initiative. World Vision has offices in Zenica, Tuzla, and
Sarejevo, Bosnia, with a logistics office in Split, Croatia.
Key words: Bosnia; Economic Development; Humanitarian Relief;
Mental Health; Reconstruction.
Wisconsin
FK Bemis International Center, St. Norbert College
10-0 Grant Street
De Pere, Wisconsin 54115
Tel: 414-337-3955
Fax: 414-337-4008
Email: katngt@sncac.snc.edu
Contact: Garth Katner
In 1996-97, the F.K. Bemis International Center of St. Norbert
College (BIC-SNC) will be playing host to a series of citizens
exchanges between Tuzla, Bosnia and Green Bay, Wisconsin. The
Center seeks to help members of Tuzla's municipal government and
participants from the its NGOs form a core of citizens with
expertise in local democratic administration. It will provide
skills training to members of the Tuzla Forum and other voluntary
organizations, along with elected members of the Tuzla municipal
government, in how to influence and formulate public policy. This
will also allow the northeast Wisconsin community to gain a
deeper understanding of the multicultural society struggling to
survive in Bosnia.
Key words: Bosnia; Citizenship; Education; Exchanges;
Reconstruction.
University of Wisconsin
c/o Dalia Mogahed
2035 Adderbury Lane
Madison, Wisconsin 53711
Tel: 608-273-1094
Email: dalia@caelab1.cae.wisc.edu
Contact: Dalia Mogahed
The Bosnia Relief Committee is a student organization at the
University of Wisconsin. The students have raised thousands of
dollars in relief funds and shipped 30,000 pounds of humanitarian
aid. In 1996, they brought two seriously injured Bosnians to the
University Hospital for treatment and organized two Bosnia
Awareness Days on campus.
Key words: Bosnia; Education; Health; Humanitarian Relief;
Refugee Assistance.
Working for Peace in the Balkans: A Guide to US Organizations
Helsinki Citizens Assembly/USA
Conflict Resolution Program, American Friends Service Committee,
New York Metropolitan Regional Office
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