Members of the Association Bosnia and herzegovina 2005

Senior Advisory Board

International Executive Committee

Wolfgang Petritsch, Geneva (chair of the SAB)

Former Special envoy of the EU for Kosovo, later EU chief negotiator at the Kosovo peace talks in Rambouillet and Paris; former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Currently Austrian ambassador Permanent Representative of the Republic of Austria to the UN and Other International Organisations at Geneva

Jakob Finci, President of the Association Bosnia and Herzegovina 2005, Sarajevo

Sonja Biserko, Belgrade

Former diplomat with over twenty years in the foreign service of the former Yugoslavia, is currently the head of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia and a member of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights

Members

Haris Abaspahic, Sarajevo Economic Region Development Agency, Sarajevo
Dino Abazovic, Human Rights Center of the University of Sarajevo
John B. Allcock, University of Bradford
Reuf Bajrovic, UNDP, Sarajevo
Neven Andjelic, Birkbeck College, University of London
Ivan Barbalic, ACIPS, Sarajevo
Roberto Belloni, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA)
Stefano Bianchini, IECEB, Bologna
Florian Bieber, European Center for Minority Issues, based in Belgrade
Sumantra Bose, London School of Economics and Political Science, London
Svetlana Broz, Garden of the Righteous, Sarajevo
Zlatan Burzic, International Republican Institute in Bosnia, Sarajevo
Nadia Capuzzo, Department of sociology, University of Geneva
Srdjan Dizdarevic, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Sarajevo
Zija Dizdarevic, political analyst, Sarajevo
Anto Domazet, Faculty of Economics, University of Sarajevo
Dina Durakovic,ACIPS, Tuzla
Azra Dzajic, Heinrich Böll, Sarajevo
Vedran Dzihic, Department of Political Science, Vienna University, Vienna
Belma Ejupovic, Eastern European Service Agency, Los Angeles
Sefik Fadzan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sarajevo
Yvana Enzler, Pristina
Chip Gagnon, Department of Politics, Ithaca College
Jelena Gajevic, ACIPS, Sarajevo
Antoine Garapon, Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice, Paris
Vladimir Gligorov, WIIW, Vienna
Bajro Golic, Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo
Dennis Gratz, lawyer and publicist, Sarajevo
Zdravko Grebo, CIPS, University of Sarajevo
Zlatko Hadzidedic, political analyst, Sarajevo
Hamdija Hadzihasanovic, Alliance for Security Bosnia, Sarajevo
Pierre Hassner, CERI, Paris
Tarik Haveric, publicist, Paris
Jasmina Husanovic, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla
Midhat Izmirlija, Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo
Udo Janz, UNHCR, Geneva
Zehra Kacapor, UNDP, Sarajevo
Amer Kapetanovic, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sarajevo
Emina Keco-Isakovic, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo
Christine von Kohl, Kulturni Centar, Vienna
Ivo Komsic, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo
Zeljko Kopanja, editor, Banja Luka
Nikola Kovac, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo
Adila Kreso, Department of Education, University of Sarajevo
Ivan Lovrenovic, novelist & essayist, Sarajevo
Tihomir Loza, Transitions online, London
Rajko Macura, Lighthouse Youth Centre, Prijedor
Jasna Malkoc, OSCE-ODIHR, Warsaw
Ranko Markus, research assistant, Sarajevo
Emira Mesanovic, SEEYN, Sarajevo
Damir Miljevic, Employers' Confederation of RS, Banja Luka
Massimo Moratti, Internatioanl Committee for Human Rights, Sarajevo
Adnan Muminovic, ONASA, Sarajevo
Nijaz Musabegovic, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo
Véronique Nahoum-Grappe, EHESS, Paris
Peter Neussl, UNOCHA Internal Displacement Division, Geneva
Marko Orsolic, International Multireligious & Intercultural Center, Sarajevo
Zarko Papic, Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues, Sarajevo
Haris Basic, Noel Barker Institute for Commercial Management, Sarajevo
José-Miguel Palacios, political analyst, Madrid
Valery Perry, Inst. for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason Uni.
Josef Poeschl, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Vienna
Steven Sampson, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Lund
Giovanni Scotto, Department of Social Studies, University of Florence
Vehid Sehic, Forum of Tuzla Citizens, Tuzla
Christophe Solioz, Forum for Democratic Alternatives [isn], Geneva
Besim Spahic, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo
Dragoljub Stojanov, Faculty of Economics, University of Sarajevo
Branko Todorovic, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in RS, Bijeljina
Sejfudin Tokic, FDA, Sarajevo
Rajko Tomas, Faculty of Economy, University of Banja Luka
Jelenka Vockic-Avdagic,Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo
Tobias K. Vogel, New School for Social Research, New York
Nebojsa Vukadinovic, National Foundation for Political Science, Paris
Susan Woodward, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Miodrag Zivanovic, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Banja Luka

Lakhdar Brahimi, Algiers

Former Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan , now Special Adviser to the Secretary-General

Erhard Busek, Brussels

Former Deputy-Mayor of Vienna, Minister of Science and Research, Minister of Education, and, most recently, Vice Chancellor of Austria. He is currently Chairman of the Institute for the Danube and Central Europe, Co-ordinator of the Southeast European Co-operative Initiative (SECI), and Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Frankfurt

Publicist and politician, the Greens, MEP; co-president of the Greens/Free European Alliance Group in the European Parliament

Marrack Goulding, Oxford

Former Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs and Under-Secretary-General for UN Peace-keeping Operations; also former Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs tasked with the UN preventive diplomacy and peacemaking activities throughout the world. Since 1997 Warden of St. Antony's College

Sonja Licht, Belgrade

President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence; member of the Network of Political Schools of South Eastern Europe

Bozidar Matic, Sarajevo

Former Prime Minsiter of Bosnia and Herzegovina, President of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Predrag Matvejevic, Rome

Left his country in the beginning of the war and chose a situation "midway between asylum and exile", living in France between 1991 and 1994, then working in Italy since 1994; He is currently professor of Slavic languages in the university The Sapienza of Rome

Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Warsaw

Former Prime Minister of Poland; former Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations and its representative in former Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav Wars. In 1995 he gave up his post as a protest against the policies that did nothing to help Bosnia

José Maria Mendiluce, Madrid

Former UN special envoy to the Balkans (unitl 1994), and former Representative to the European Parliament

Vreni Müller-Hemmi, Zurich

Member of Swiss Parliament; Social Democrat; Member of: Committee for Foreign Affairs, Committee for Sciences, Education and Culture and President of the Parlamentarian Group for Human Rights. Initiated in 1999 the parliamentarian resolution for a long-term engagement of Switzerland in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Manfred Nowak, Vienna

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights and director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights at Vienna University. Chairperson of the European Master's Programme on Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA) and visiting professor at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC)

Executive Council

James O’Brien, Washington, D.C.

Former US special presidential envoy for the Balkans and senior adviser to the Secretary, leading roles in the Dayton Agreement for peace in Bosnia, and in agreements to control weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union. Currently Principal at The Albright Group

Jasmina Pasalic, Bern

Former Head of the Department for European Countries of the Bosnian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, currently Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Switzerland

Christophe Solioz, executive director (Geneva)
Senad Slatina, political analyst (Sarajevo)
Tobias K. Vogel, senior editor (New York-Freiburg i. Breisgau)
Vedran Dzihic, research analyst (Vienna)
Jasmina Husanovic, research analyst (Tuzla)
Svebor Dizdarevic, advisor (Lyon)

Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Berlin

Former German Minister for Post and Telecommunications and a Member of the German Parliament, former Vice-Chairman of the Human Rights Council of the Bundestag; International Mediator for the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (1995-2004)

Ramesh Thakur, Tokyo

Political scientist and peace researcher, Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University

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