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Association and Organisations
Local Associations
Association of Mediators of Serbia (AmS)
The Association of Mediators of Serbia was established on March 17, 2006 as non-political, non-governmental and non-profit organization in order to promote dialogue, tolerance and mediation as means of peaceful resolution of disputes in public, private, profit and non-profit sector. The AmS aims to support and improve mediation practice in Serbia through the development of standards of conduct for mediators, by supporting continuing mediation education, through cooperation with other similar local and international associations and organizations therefore influencing society as a whole to recognize the value of mediation as a new means of solving disputes.
Contact:
Maja Zegarac (President of Management Board)
Association of Mediators of Serbia (AmS)
Ruska 4
11 000 Belgrade, Serbia
Tel: +381 11 2650 258
Fax: +381 11 2650 542
Mobile: +381 11 641 693 415
E-mail: maja.z@EUnet.yu
Relevant Organisations
Bul. AVOJ-a 79, Belgrade, Serbia
Altanative Dispute Resolution Centre
Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre is non-governmental organization, with the goal to contribute to the development of mediation and other alternative dispute resolution techniques in different areas of their application. It is nation wide organization, open to networking with organizations with similar goals, in region and wider. Design programs and projects to facilitate conflict prevention, management and resolution; provides services on the strategy making level for social inclusion of certain vulnerable / marginalised group; organize training courses on different types of mediations and other alternative dispute resolution techniques, and design educational package tools for different target groups; provide direct mediation services, and design capacity building programs for social and non- governmental associations and other institutions.
Centre functions through different programme sectors:
Coorporative conflict management
Buissines organizations capacity building through facilitation of team work, improvement in the field of communication, participatory decision making process, conflict management, and human resources management.
Intercultural conflict management
Facilitation of intercultural dialog, communication, tolerance and respect for differences, from the social justice position. Improvement of relationships in multicultural communities through sensibilisation for recognition of prejudices, discrimination and oppression, as well as mechanisms for their development and persistence, together with application of ADR techniques as a means for both conflict management and resolution, and strategy making for further facilitation of social inclusion of marginalised groups.
Mediated political dialogue
Application of ADR techniques for improvement of political performance of individuals and organizations.
ADR techniques in the field of combating trafficking in human beings
Till now, ADR techniques were used in the field of psychosocial reintegration of victims of trafficking in human beings. Mediation was used as a means of conflict management in Transitional House, and as a means for communication improvement and conflict management between the victim and her family. In further activities of Centre, application of community based, restorative justice approach techniques is planed, also aimed to facilitate social inclusion of the victims. Mentioned techniques are planed to be used on policy-making level, including all stakeholders involved in reintegration process of victims of trafficking.
Community mediation and other ADR techniques
Promotion of comprehensive problem solving, enhancing all stakeholders, as effective mode of conflict management on the community level, which ensures sustainability, and long term effects; facilitation of civic participation in decision making processes concerning important aspects of community life. ADR techniques are in this area used both for conflict resolution, and for strategy making in the sense of dealing with specific local community problem.
ADR techniques in the field of educational system
Previous activities of members of Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre in this field, resulted in formation of school mediation teams and peer mediation teams. Facilitation of mediation in schools turns out to be not only effective mode of conflict management, and creation of atmosphere of tolerance and respect, but also an effective mode for youth participation empowerment. Improvement of conflict management in schools is planed, through application of restorative justice based ADR techniques, which will improve school capacities for dealing with increasing violence.
ADR techniques in the field of family relationships
Centre provides services in the area of communication facilitation, sensibility for the other party’s point of view, identification of underlying interests and needs, direction toward looking for win/win solution, both in the form of mediation, and in Family Group Conferencing form.
Contact:
Dragana Cuk Milankov (President)
Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre
Bulevar AVNOJ-a 79
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Email: dcukm@ptt.yu
ABA/CEELI Serbia 
The American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI), provides support of the rule of law throughout Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East. With offices in 23 countries, CEELI has organized hundreds of interactive training workshops, helped establish judicial training centers and public advocacy centers, and analyzed hundreds of draft laws and constitutions.
CEELI initiated its program in Serbia in 1997 with the placement of its first rule of law liaison in Belgrade. CEELI has been instrumental in helping Serbia’s legal professionals reestablish the rule of law in Serbia and today centers its programs in the areas of judicial, legal profession reform, prosecutors, magistrates and war crimes.
As a part of its rule of law initiatives, in 2006 CEELI is promoting mediation as a new means of solving disputes through mediation trainings for judges and attorneys throughout Serbia. CEELI’s trainings for judges are created in order to utilize the new Law on Mediation and to educate judges on appropriate practices and techniques to encourage settlements. CEELI’s trainings for attorneys are designed to introduce attorneys to mediation and to educate attorneys on the best practices in meeting interests of their clients.
CEELI’s mediation trainings for judges and attorneys, as key players in the justice system, are complementing projects done by other organisations in Serbia that mostly focus on trainings of mediators.
GTZ Serbia 
On behalf of the German Ministry for Economical Cooperation and Development – BMZ, GTZ is implementing the project Conflict Transformation and Youth Empowerment in Serbia.
The Project Mission
The project cooperates, since 2002 with the Ministry of Education and Sports of the Republic of Serbia, above all, in promoting non-violent behaviour and prevention of conflicts as well as organising the activities of the young and their strengthening and the implementation of their initiatives, most often in the form of school parliaments.
GTZ project provides advice to the Ministry of Education regarding the foundation of the participation system of education focused on the strengthening of the active participation of the young in schools. GTZ provides advice to the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights in the field of promotion of tolerance and respect of differences.
The target group of the project are young people between 13 and 25 years of age as well as experts working with this target group.
The overall objective of the project is the establishment of a subdepartment at the Ministry of Education and Sport for the target group “youth” in order to support the work in educational institutions at a decentralised level.
The goal of the project
The main goal we want to achieve is that the young people of both sexes who belong to different ethnic communities of Serbia actively participate in their schools, teenage groups and NGOs in the processes of peaceful resolution of conflicts and democratization.
The idea is to promote their active role through the programs of youth education in which they apply their new knowledge and experiences. Program will be implemented in 110 school and 16 youth centers till the end of the year. Directly and indirectly it is trained 1100 students and 410 professionals working with young people.
There is a tendency to apply methods of alternative resolutions of conflicts in the youth environment, especially the mediation technique as well as to accept decisions made by the young.
Activities
The project is implemented in elementary and high schools in Serbia and in youth centers. Activities are implemented in 4 sectors, among which are the following:
Education and training sector
The aim of this sector is to develop education packages and programs for the young aged 13 to 25 as well as for the professionals who work with this target group.
The basic trainings are in the following areas: children and human rights; negotiations; mediation; tolerance, non-discrimination and fight against prejudices and stereotypes; critical thinking; team work; leadership; new methods and forms of work with the young; skills for the development of capacities of organizations; acquisition of resources, project proposals composition and strengthening of the youth organization.
Sector of conflicts prevention
The aim of this sector is psychosocial work with the marginalized categories of citizens as well as the reconciliation projects of different national groups.
The most important project in this sector is the project of Peer mediation, which is being implemented in the elementary and high schools in Serbia in order to prevent and mediate in conflicts.
Contact:
Marija Radovanovic (Project Administrator)
Stanislava Vidovic (Project Coordinator)
GTZ Serbia
Djure Danicica 9
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Tel: +381 11 322 32 87
Fax: +381 11 322 32 83
Email: gtz-psy@eunet.yu
URL: www.gtz.de
Nansen Dialogue Centre Serbia
The Nansen Dialogue Centre Belgrade was founded in 1999. Itis the main organization in Serbia working on inter-ethic conflicts. To a certain extent the NDC also work on school mediation and cooperate with judges who also work as mediators. The Centre is a part of the Nansen Network which comprises eight dialogue centres in the regions of former Yugoslavia. Cooperating institutions are: Nansen Academy (Nansenskolen) in Lillehammer, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Centre for Conflict Management (CCM), Norway, Responding to Conflict (RTC) from Birmingham (UK), Water + Wolf Arts Company (UK).
MISSION STATEMENT
Nansen Dialogue will, through applying the ideas and skills of dialogue, empower people who live in conflict situations to contribute to peaceful conflict transformation and democratic development with promotion of human rights .
Values
NDC Serbia work is underpinned by a commitment to values that are integral to a sustainable future for humankind: diversity, inclusiveness, justice, cultural sensitivity, mutual respect, non-violence, and environmental sensitivity.
Vision
Our vision of Serbian society is: democratic, progressive, with well-developed institutions, legal system in accordance with EU standards, society which is able to deal with conflict in a peaceful and creative way, as multicultural and multiethnic, as a society of all citizens, with political parties with programmes for developing society as a whole, and not national programmes. We see Serbia as a part of the region with good relationship with neighbouring countries, and people reconciled.
Mission
NDC Serbia will contribute to the vision by focusing our work on supporting development of institutions toward EU standards, supporting multiethnic, civil society through promotion of interethnic dialogue, and by enabling and challenging individuals, organisations and networks, at all levels and in different sectors of society to become more sustained and strategic in their work for peace and justice.
As a part of the network, we will strive to reconciliation of the region by strengthening relationships with other parts of the region and by promoting cooperation and joining in efforts of progressive parts of societies into better future.
Goals
- to support development of institutions in Serbia towards EU standards;
- to strengthen capacity in local communities to be more strategic and effective in their work;
- to promote interethnic dialogue as a tool for dealing with conflict on different levels of society;
- building and strengthening relationships between local political structures and local communities in order to increase efficiency in dealing with interethnic problems;
- building regional capacity in peace building and conflict transformation;
Nansen Dialogue Centre Serbia is a part of the Nansen Dialogue Network which comprises ten dialogue centres in the regions of former Yugoslavia. Apart from Nansen Dialogue Centre Serbia and its branch office in Bujanovac, there are Nansen Dialogue Centre Montenegro (NDC Montenegro), Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje (NDC Skopje) in Macedonia, Nansen Dialogue Centre Banja Luka (NDC Banja Luka), Nansen Dialogue Centre Sarajevo (NDC Sarajevo), Nansen Dialogue Centre Mostar (NDC Mostar) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nansen Dialogue Centre Osijek (NDC Osijek) in Croatia, Kosovan Nansen Dialogue (KND) in Kosovo in Pristina and Mitrovica. Apart from the regional centres, the Nansen Dialogue Network also includes the Nansen Academy in Lillehammer, Norway .
Contact:
Jelena Lengold (Project Coordinator)
Nansen Dialogue Centre Serbia
Partizanske avijacije 11
11070 Novi Beograd, Serbia
Tel: +381 11 30 17 024
Fax: +381 11 30 17 029
E-mail: nansen@sezampro.yu
URL: www.bncserbia.org.yu
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