The Igman Initiative ( sh, Igmanska inicijativa) is an umbrella association whose goal is to foster economic and political cooperation as well as to encourage normalization of inter-state relations among the countries of the
Dayton Quadrangles:
Croatia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Serbia and
Montenegro.
History
The initiative was named after Mt.
Igman
Igman ( sr-cyrl, Игман, ) is a mountain plateau in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. Geologically, Igman is part of the Dinaric Alps and formed largely of secondary and tertiary sedimentary rock, mostly Limestone. It is located southwest of Sa ...
in remembrance of the intellectual activists, who traveled from all over former
Yugoslavia via the Igman Mountain Road to Sarajevo in April 1995 in solidarity with the besieged population. In November 2000 a conference ''Prospects of Relations between Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the FRY''
[At that time the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) still consisted of Serbia and Montenegro.]” was convened in
Zagreb. The conference gathered more than a hundred
NGOs from the nations ratifying the
Dayton Agreement. The participating organizations agreed to formally join their efforts to stimulate the normalization of relations among the three countries. In 2001 in
Novi Sad the second session of the conference was held where the Initiative was formally established and a Council was appointed.
The Igman Initiative was founded by the
Center for Regionalism (Novi Sad, Serbia), the
Forum of the Democratic Alternative BiH (Sarajevo, BiH) and the
Civic Committee for Human Rights
The Civic Committee for Human Rights ( hr, Građanski odbor za ljudska prava; abbreviation CCHR (English) or GOLJP (Croatian)) a non-governmental non-profit organization in Croatia. It operates since 1992 and its goal is to protect and promote of ...
(Zagreb, Croatia).
Freedom House
Freedom House is a non-profit, majority U.S. government funded organization in Washington, D.C., that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom, and human rights. Freedom House was founded in October 1941, and Wendell Wil ...
provides nearly all of the funding for the Igman Initiative projects.
Organization
The Igman Initiative is now governed by four co-Presidents from Croatia, BiH, Serbia and Montenegro and its Council is currently composed of twenty members, five per country. It comprises more than 140 non-governmental organizations from Serbia, Montenegro, BiH, and Croatia.
References
External links
* {{official, http://www.igman-initiative.org/
Political organizations based in Croatia
Political organizations based in Serbia