CIAO DATE: 04/04

ECMI Civil Society Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace and the Role of the Preservation of National Monuments in Successful Peace Implementation

Introduction

The ECMI Civil Society Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina aims to assist local actors in assuming responsibility for democratic governance in the country. They are involved and engaged, with the assistance of international and local experts, in a process of reviewing existing policy on practical issues of concern to all communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and of developing specific policy recommendations to further governance and civil society development within the framework set out by the Dayton Peace Accords (DPA).

The project targets civil society representatives, policy and decision makers in Bosnia and Herzegovina at all levels of governance, and researchers from all national communities. Representatives from the international implementing agencies and donors are invited to attend as observers. To launch the series of Workshops, a constitutive meeting was held in July 2001 to identify broad themes that could provide the basis for more specific and focused work as the project progresses. Follow-on events were held in November of that year on media issues, and on the implementation of Annex 8 of the Dayton Accords in December. This theme was considered so important as to demand a series of three projected meetings addressing the issue. This meeting therefore represents the second in the ongoing series on the area of the implementation of Annex 8 of the Dayton Accords. Together, the three workshops form the “pilot phase” of the Annex 8 project, and will be the basis for potential future work on the issue.

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