The Peace Academy Foundation's (PAF) projects and activities all aim to create a continous culture of peace, support peacebuilding practicioners in their everyday work and provide them and wider society with valuable recources about peacebuilding literature and educational programs.
PAF's Board of Directors together with the staff works on creating new and innovative programs and activities which can benefit peacebuilding practitioners and the wider society within the former Yugoslavia.
The Peace Academy Foundation helps to construct and affirm a culture of peace in all social spheres through the exchange of theoretical and practical knowledge, skills and experiences. Your support enables us to make the Peace Academy Foundation sustainable to provide further peacebuilding education and other activities within the region of the former Yugoslavia. Thank you for your generosity!
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Beneficiary Bank: Raiffeisen bank dd Bosnia and Herzegovina
SWIFT Code: RZBABA2S
Address: Zmaja od Bosne BB Sarajevo BiH
IBAN Code: BA391611000001591440
Full Beneficiary name: Fondacija Mirovna akademija
Full Beneficiary address: Grbavicka 91, Sarajevo
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Beneficiary name: Fondacija Mirovna akademija
Beneficiary address: Grbavicka 91, Sarajevo
Bank account number: 1610000087950008
Beneficiary bank: Raiffeisen bank dd Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The Peace Academy Foundation (PAF) is an independent non-partisan and non-profit organization, which acts in the spirit of democracy, openness, tolerance and solidarity.
PAF is located in Sarajevo and registered as a foundation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, PAF's area of engagement also includes the countries which emerged after the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (hereafter referred to as the region). It is an area in which (violent) conflicts and peacebuilding efforts are deeply intertwined due to cultural, historical, economic and political reasons.
PAF is engaged in the field of peacebuilding. Peacebuilding is a complex set of interlinked processes and activities “involving investments and materials, architectural design and coordination of labor, laying a foundation, and detailed finish work, as well as continuing maintenance.” All components of peacebuilding work towards peace which is conceived as “justice and equity for all as the basis for living together in harmony and freedom from violence.”
In more practical terms PAF sees peacebuilding as increasing the capacities of people and institutions to manage diversity, transform conflicts and avoid structural violence by investigating and analyzing the causes of war, opening perspectives and reestablishing interrupted and destroyed relationships among people and between the ethnic groups of the region. In this regard the work of PAF is interdisciplinary and includes a number of areas of engagement such as culture, identity, ethnicity, religion, politics, nation building, gender, marginalized groups, etc.
PAF does not divide peacebuilders into “theoreticians” and “practitioners” on the basis of the type of their engagement or work environment, be it university, academic or NGO. It is crucial that their peacebuilding work is visible and effective in public. Only then, are peacebuiders treated as “practitioners.” If their work is performed only within a scholarly community and is not visible in public, they are treated as “theoreticians”.
Through various activities implemented since 2007, PAF achieved the following:
The Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy (PYPA) program was created in 2007 as a result of shared experience-based insights from four organizations working in the field of reconciliation and peacebuilding in the region: Mennonite Central Committee, Sarajevo; Centre for Non-violent Action, Sarajevo/Belgrade; Nansen Dialogue Center, Sarajevo; and TERCA, Sarajevo.
PYPA was conceived to address a number of challenges which practitioners in the field have been facing throughout the region:
In September 2010, to ensure the long-term sustainability of the PYPA, the Peace Academy Foundation was established as a separate and legally-registered organization. From this date, the PYPA has been one the main PAF's activities, providing education on peacebuilding to persons from across the former Yugoslavia who are active in the fields of peacebuilding, dealing with the past, and human rights' protection. This event is tailored for activists, students, researchers, theoreticians, journalists and all others whose focus is peace work.
Our basic intention is to contribute to the advancement of peacebuilding practices and theory in the Post-Yugoslav Countries and offer those who deal with peacebuilding the opportunity to:
PYPA aims to empower the participants with advanced knowledge and skills for strategic and transformative work, both practical and theoretical, in the field of peacebuilding.
PAF has organized to date four PYPA's for more than 210 peacebuilding actors, NGO activists, theoreticians, journalists and others from the region and beyond. During those four summer schools, 12 courses with unique curricula on peacebuilding that combine activist and academic approaches in peacebuilding have been delivered by 14 renowned instructors from the region and beyond. As a product of the four PYMA's, more than 100 essays have been written by participants and published as a final product of the summer school. These publications hvae enriched locally-produced peacebuilding literature in the region.
In order to be transparent as well as to provide current information about activities, projects and initiatives to our donors, partner organizations, media sponsors, participants and peacebuilding practitioners in general, the Peace Academy Foundation will post it's annual reports here:
Annual Report for 2008
Annual Report for 2009
Annual Report for 2010
Annual Report for 2011
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