Links

Regional mediation organisations, mediation association

Partners Center for Conflict Management (Partners-Kosova) is a local NGO committed to building sustainable indigenous capacity to advance civil society and a culture of change and conflict management. Partners-Kosova is one of the fourteen Centers of Partners for Democratic Change (PDC), an international NGO, founded in 1989. Partners-International, through its Centers, has provided vital communication, negotiation, and cooperative planning skills to thousands of civic, NGO, municipal and national government leaders in over 50 countries. 
Partners-Kosova (P-K) is a locally managed national Center working since 2001 within communities to foster a culture of peaceful conflict resolution and build consensus on neighborhood, business, majority-minority, and citizen-government issues.  The Center provides services ranging from mediation to training courses in anti-discrimination and ethnic integration. The chief programs of Partners-Kosova include a mediation service; training of local government officials and elected municipal representatives in leadership and citizen participation processes; and training, mentoring and reconciliation programs.  As the most active mediation center in Kosova, Partners-Kosova’s services include mediating family, property, business, blood feud and other cases; training in basic and advanced mediation skills; and expert consultation in setting up mediation programs for schools, municipalities and diverse community groups. The Center has developed a highly effective Kosovar mediation methodology that blends modern mediation concepts such as voluntary participation and mediator neutrality with Kosova’s centuries-old traditions of mediation by a trusted third party.   Since its inception in 2001 P-K has trained more than 200 mediators and court staff with diverse ethnicity in ADR methodology (Communication, Conflict Management, Negotiation, Facilitation, Mediation, and Collaborative Process). P-K mediators and a network of 45 external active mediators have helped settle over 170 cases out of 378 involving more than 11000 people, which indicate that over 85% of cases mediated by Partners-Kosova have resulted in settlement or significant de-escalation of the dispute.
Partners Kosova:  www.partnerskosova.org,  www.partnersglobal.org

Kosovan Nansen Dialogue (KND): www.kndialogue.org
Kosovan Nansen Dialogue (KND) is a Kosovan NGO that works on interethnic dialogue and reconciliation and promotion of democracy and human rights. Through its offices in Prishtina and Mitrovica and with its work and activities it covers all of Kosovo. With the engagement of the staff in the offices and designated team members KND covers all of the population of Kosovo, including all ethnicities, regions as well as enclaves.
Kosovan Nansen Dialogue is a part of the Nansen Network, a network of similar NGO centers all over the Balkans working on dialogue and reconciliation issues. KND is supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs by its annual grants provided through the  Nansen Academy in Lillehammer.
Kosovan Nansen Dialogue mission is building a peaceful, democratic, open and inclusive society in Kosova/o by providing safe space for interethnic dialogue and reconciliation; facilitating and contributing to the public debate in the Kosovan society; developing peace.

Mediation related links

UNMIK: www.unmikonline.org

Kosovo Government: www.ks-gov.net

OSCE Mission in Kosovo: www.osce.org/kosovo/

USAID Kosovo: www.usaid.gov/missions/kosovo/

American Bar Association : www.abanet.org