Interviews

07.04.2008 The Citizens of Sarajevo informal group has organized, for the past two months, protests against deteriorating security in the city and, as they say, incompetent and irresponsible authorities. We talked about the protests to Nina Stevanovic, a.k.a. Suncica 24, representatives of Gradjani/ke Sarajeva (Note: the interview was taken before the April 6 protests).

04.04.2007 The Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies at Columbia University in New York City has recently joined the efforts to find a solution that would bring the advantages to all the parties, by inviting a scholar from Indiana University at Bloomington School of Law, Professor Timothy William Waters.

20.03.2007 OWPSEE talked to Sahit Kandic, OAZA'a president, to discuss the organization, its goals, aims and activities.

09.01.2007 On.net is one of the most prominent internet service providers now trying to move into other areas of telecommunications. It has already signed the interconnection agreement with incumbent operator of fixed land-lines, Macedonian Telecommunications. Also, On.net has been involved in a variety of corporate responsibility operations and activities. We talked to Predrag Cemerikic, the General Manager of On.net.

13.12.2006 To get an insight of Kosovo telecommunications situation, owpsee interviewed Anton K. Berisha, Chairman of Kosovo’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority.

11.12.2006 The EDEN Center, is one of the most active non-governmental organizations in Albania working on issues of environment. To get a deeper insight environment issue in the country, we talked to Merita Mansaku, Executive Directress of EDEN Center.

25.10.2006 The Media Development Centre is the only specialized non-governmental organization in Macedonia working on issues of media legislation and policy. We talked to Roberto Belicanec, MDC Executive Director, about the situation in Macedonian civil sector, its relationship with the media and attacks on the organization.

01.07.2006 The former Director General of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), Ahim Steiner, said that the organization adopted a "very purposeful decision" to open its programming regional office for the Southeast Europe in Belgrade, with the goal to provide assistance through advise, but also to help the approximation of national environmental protection policies with EU legislation, under the process of European integrations.

19.04.2006 Lina Kosturova-Unkovska, Director of the Centre for Psychosocial and Crisis Action, has worked on post-conflict stress and trauma treatment, as well as community development through activities designed for children, since the start of wars in former Yugoslavia. The interview was taken from Gragjanski svet newsletter.

10.03.2006 The Citizens' Pact for SEE is a network of 117 member organizations from the region of Southeast Europe. It includes both non-governmental organizations and local administrations, which makes it very specific network. We talked to Rajko Bozic, Programme Coordinator with CP, on the possibilities for cooperation of the two sectors and the general subject of civil society in the region.

02.03.2006 Zrinjka Perusko is a senior associate researcher with the Institute for International Relations from Zagreb, where she is the head of the Department of Culture and Communication. She graduated and earned her Ph.D. at the Department of Sociology at Zagreb University School of Philosophy. During the academic year 2001/02, she was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington, SAD. Perusko taught Mass Media Communications, Political Sociology and Theory of Industrial Democracy, and post-graduate courses in Media and Society and American Media.

22.02.2006 Jasminka Dzumhur, National Human Rights Officer with UN High Commission for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2001, works in Sarajevo and shares her time between Sarajevo and Zenica. For years, she had been active in one of the oldest and strongest women NGOs in B&H, Medika from Zenica, and later with the Centre for Legal Assistance for Women, also in Zenica. Human rights, and women human rights in particular, have been her main area of interest for over 11 years.

13.12.2005 To get a realistic picture of gender equality in Kosova, OneWorld Southeastern Portal has interviewed one of top women activists in the field, Ms. Igballe Rogova, Executive Directress of Kosova Womens Network – KWN.

09.12.2005 The LDA of Prijedor is part of a network of eleven LDAs in the Balkan region, which together form the Association of Local Democracy Agencies. We talked to Patricia Bugna, the Head of LDA, about the organization and its activities.

28.11.2005 In his interview for EkoForum, Michael Schweres, President of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ), stressed the access to good and trustworthy information remains the biggest problem for journalists reporting on environmental issues. This interview was made in late September 2005, in Pozega (Croatia), during the First International Forum of Environmental Journalists, organized by the Croatian Environmental Press Centre.

02.11.2005 Professor Marijan Jost says it clearly in the interview he gave to ALERT: EU is a big importer and consumer of organic food – therefore, there is no place for GM seeds in Croatia!

17.10.2005 Jan Zlatan Kulenovic, the Executive Director of the Youth Information Agency of B&H (OIA) talks to OneWorld SEE about youth policy in B&H, the positions of the state towards the youth and the development of civil society.

12.10.2005 Goran Stojkovski, Master of Political Sciences and editor-in-chief of “Media Mirror” Project for media monitoring in the Republic of Macedonia talked to OneWorld SEE about the project, about its importance and effects, and also answered the accusations coming from some media about alleged political ambitions of the project and its donors. (the interview was conducted by e-mail).

02.09.2005 To get more first-hand information about the development of Kosovo’s civil society organizations, Syri i Vizionit in particular, OneWorld SEE has interviewed Veton Mujaj, Executive Director, who says that “Action in civil society sector was both a need and a perspective".

26.07.2005 Miljenko Dereta, Executive Director of Civic Initiatives gave an interview for “Kaziprst” (Index Finger) programme of B92 Radio. He spoke on the subject of the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica.