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Transitional Justice
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General Purposes: Humanitarian Law Center
Recent Grants
General Purposes
February, 2011
| Amount: |
$155,000 |
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1/1/2011 to
12/31/2012
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| Program: |
Civil Society
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| Program Area: |
Central/Eastern Europe and Russia
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| Geographic Focus: |
Serbia and Montenegro: Serbia and Montenegro (At Large)
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The overall program goal is to establish the conditions for dealing with the past in Serbia and the broader region. To this end, the Humanitarian Law Center researches and documents war crimes and other human rights abuses stemming from the regime of Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia and the violent conflicts in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. During the past two years, the center has built up its war crimes database and archive, represented victims in compensation lawsuits, published information about war crimes, and provided secretariat support and leadership to a growing coalition calling for a Balkan-wide victims' commission. During the grant period, the center will support the coalition for a regional victims' commission, research killed and missing persons in Kosovo, promote public awareness of war crimes through documentation and educational activities, and build the center's organizational and programmatic capacities. The center is based in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Additional Resouces
Transitional Justice
We fund nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in South Africa and the Western Balkans (specifically Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia) to overcome legacies of violent ethnic or racial conflicts. Our grantmaking supports a variety of processes to address past discrimination and abuses, respect diversity, and promote healing and reconciliation.
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Forgiveness is a tricky thing, but an apology often is a place to start.Forgiveness is a tricky thing, but an apology often is a place to start. Natasa Kandic, who established the Humanitarian Law Center – a Mott grantee – in 1992 to document the human rights violations that were then being perpetrated on a massive scale across the former Yugoslavia, reflects on the power of a simple apology.