KFOS Open

”Democracy, Openness and Prospects of the Serb Community in Kosovo – Open” is a new initiative of the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (KFOS), initiated in 2020. Open is realized in cooperation with nine civil-society organizations that are active in the Serb community in Kosovo.”

A general objective of this new initiative is development of an open and dynamic space for discussion within the Serb community and between the Serb and other communities, as well as among institutions in Kosovo.

The initiative will specifically be engaged in the analysis and estimate of the impact of civil-society and political organizations on the implementation of democratic principles and openness of the Serb community in Kosovo. Implementation of democratic standards and the openness of institutions, public policies, and important processes in their relations with the Serb community in Kosovo will be analyzed and estimated, as well a degree of openness of the Serbian community towards them.

These analyses will assist in understanding the current position and prospects of the Serbian community in Kosovo, serving at the same time as a basis of their argumented advocacy among citizens, institutions, local and central authorities, and the international community.

Experienced and established civil-society organizations will make eight (8) sectoral analyses with the purpose of meeting general and specific objectives.

Areas covered by the New Social Initiative in the first round of project implementation:

Civil society – How civil-society organizations give their contribution to openness and principles of democracy of the Serbian community and generally of Kosovo society? New Social Initiative in partnership with FDMC  dealt with this topic in the report Civil society organizations in the Serb community in Kosovo: Between perceptions and presentation available on our website in English, Albanian and Serbian.

See the video featuring director of TV Mir Nenad Radosavljević and journalist Milica Stojanović Kostić who comment findings of the report.

Also, read the Op-Ed our Program Director, Miloš Milovanović wrote based on the main findings, is is available only in the Serbian language.

Political parties – Observance of democratic principles and pluralist activism of political parties of the Kosovo Serbs, as well as their openness to participate in the political system of Kosovo and give their contribution to the improvement of public policies. These issues were in the focus of the New Social Initiative and Media center. See the report Political parties of Kosovo Serbs in the political system of Kosovo: From pluralism to monism on our website in English, Albanian and Serbian.

See the recording of the conference at which the report was presented in Media Centre Čaglavica, it is available only in the Serbian language.

In the second round of project implementation, New Social Initiative will cover the topics of the missing persons and the status of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the dialogue on the normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia.

Project duration: 04/10/2020 – 28/02/2022