RECOM Reconciliation Network

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The Coalition for RECOM is Established

The Coalition for RECOM is a network of civil society organizations from post-Yugoslav countries supporting the establishment of RECOM – a Regional Commission to establish all the facts about the war crimes and other gross human rights violations perpetrated within the territory of the former Yugoslavia between January 1st, 1991 and December 31st, 2001.

The Coalition was established at the Fourth Regional Forum for Transitional Justice on October 28th, 2008 in Prishtina, Kosovo. The decision was adopted by 100 human rights NGOs, youth organizations, associations of families of missing persons and former prison camp detainees, along with all other individual participants in the said forum. By the end of 2014, the Coalition had gathered together more than 2,050 individuals and NGOs, united in the belief that only a joint and regional approach to the establishment of the facts could ensure a complete historical account of the past.

The Coalition for RECOM is coordinated by an Assembly of Coalition members, while the Regional Council, headed by RECOM Process and Project Coordinator Nataša Kandić, provides expert and technical support and assistance. The Council is composed of representatives of 10 NGOs from post-Yugoslav countries, acting as Partner Organizations in the RECOM Project: the Humanitarian Law Center (Serbia), the Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Serbia, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Croatia, the Transitional Justice, Accountability and Remembrance Association in Bosnia and Herzegovina (TPOS), the Center for Democracy and Transitional Justice (B&H), the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo, the Center for Civic Education (Montenegro), the Center for Research and Policy-Making (Macedonia) and the Center for Religious Studies, Politics and Society (Serbia).

The RECOM Coalition Statute

The Statute of the RECOM Coalition was adopted at the Assembly of the Coalition members held in Zagreb on October 15th, 2010, while the current amendments and supplements to the Statute were adopted at the Assembly held in Sarajevo on June 26th, 2011.

Members of the Regional Council of the RECOM Coalition

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