Moving from agreement(s) to peace The so-called status quo is taking communities on a collision course, deepening divides and entrenching misery. People don’t know where they stand, nor what they can expect for their societies. The only predictability is frustration and disappointment. The narrative of coercive diplomacy...
Women’s voices for peace in Serbia and Kosovo To mark International Women’s Day, this 8th March, we the undersigned call for more women’s voices to be involved in the process of normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia. UN Security Council Resolution 1325 specifically acknowledges the vital role that...
Press Release regarding the decisions of the Government of Kosovo on the expropriation of land in the north of Kosovo On behalf of the undersigned civil society organizations, we take this opportunity to express great concern and protest over the decisions of the Government of Kosovo...
Press release regarding the prevention of the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from entering Kosovo The latest decision of the Government of Kosovo not to allow the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Mr. Porfirije, to enter Kosovo to visit the Patriarchate of Peć and...
The constant cycle of escalation and de-escalation in relations between Kosovo and Serbia represents a failure of political imagination.The energy taken up in contending with the latest crisis distracts from the mountain of pressing issues which directly impact the day to day lives of citizens...
Press release regarding the detention of Dejan Pantic We, the undersigned, express great concern about the situation in which the former Kosovo police officer, Mr. Dejan Pantić, is. Namely, from the statements of Mr. Pantić’s lawyer, we learned that he is still at the Kosovo police...
Press release regarding the attack on the director of the NGO Aktiv The Open Initiative expresses a strong protest regarding this morning's physical and verbal harassment of the director of the NGO Aktiv, Miodrag Milićević, by members of the Kosovo Police near Jarinje in th north...
PRESS RELEASE Regarding the verdict against Nikola Nedeljković from Belgrade On behalf of the undersigned civil society organizations, we take this opportunity to express great concern and protest over the verdict of the Basic Court in Pristina, handed down to a student from Belgrade, Nikola Nedeljković,...
PRESS RELEASE - The establishment of the Community/Association of Serb majority Municipalities We, civil society organizations from the Serb community gathered within the OPEN initiative require from the Government of Kosovo to implement the provisions of the Brussels Agreement and initiate the establishment of the Community/Association...
CSOs condemn hate speech against Albanians by Serbia’s Interior Minister, Aleksandar Vulin We, the undersigned civil society organizations from Kosovo and Serbia, strongly condemn the offensive and derogatory language by Serbia’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Aleksandar Vulin, against Albanians. We urge the Serbian government, respectively the...