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JOVAN DIVJAK PERSONAL DATA
Date of birth: 11 March 1937
Citizenship: Bosnian
Marital status: married, two sons, three grandsons
Address: Logavina 6, Sarajevo
Title: Executive Director of the Association "Education Builds Bosnia-Herzegovina"
Employment status: retired since 1997
EDUCATION
1980 - 1982 National Defence School
1969 - 1971 Command Staff Academy
1963 - 1964 Language School (French)
1956 - 1959 Military Academy
1950 - 1956 Gymnasium and high school graduation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1994 One of the founders of the non-governmental organization Foundation/Association "Education Builds BiH"
1971 -1984 Experience in military education
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
Since 2004 Member of the Steering Board of the NGO Reference Group, Sarajevo
Since 1998 Member of the Association of Independent Intellectuals "Krug 99", Sarajevo
Since 1997 Member of the Helsinski Committee of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo
1996 -1997 Member of the Steering Board of the Faculty of Physical Education, Sarajevo
1992 -1995 President of the Sport Shooting Association of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo
1992 -1994 Member of the Executive Board of the Basketball Association of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina
NGO ACTIVITIES
2005. Conference "Seventh Education Forum", Sarajevo. Organizers: OSCE, OHR, UNICEF.
2005 Workshop "Towards a Sustainable Tomorrow: Partnership, Participation and Inclusion", Sarajevo. Organizer: UMCOR BiH.
2004 Workshop "Towards a Sustainable Tomorrow: Partnership, Participation and Inclusion", Sarajevo. Organizer: UMCOR BiH.
2004 Conference of Bosnia-Herzegovina NGOs, Sarajevo. Organizer: Centre for the Promotion of Civil Society.
2004 Round table "Rights of the Child and Strategy in BiH", Sarajevo. Organizer: Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2002 - 2005 1st (to 7th) International conference "Education for a Culture of Peace", Sarajevo. Organizer: "Sarajevska tribina", Sarajevo.
2002 Seminar "Active Citizenship", "Sarajevo - a healthy city" project, Sarajevo. Organizer: Sarajevo City Council.
2001 Workshop "NGO Development of a Stabilization Programme and Leadership", Sarajevo. Organizer: USAID DEM/NET.
2000 Symposium on curricula in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo. Organizer: UNESCO, OHR, UN Sarajevo.
2000 NGO training course "NGO Self-Sustainability", Sarajevo. Organizer: USAID DEM/NET.
2000 Workshop "Unity of a Successful NGO", Dubrovnik. Organizer: USAID DEM/NET.
1997 Conference "Strategic Planning in Teacher Education in Bosnia- Herzegovina", Sarajevo. Organizer: European Commission, OSCE.
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES 2005 International conference "Poverty in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ten Years after the Dayton Peace Agreement", Sarajevo. Organizers: "Caritas", Bishop Conference of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2005. International conference "Dialogue and Partnership as Levers of the Development of Bosnia-Herzegovin", Sarajevo. Organizers: Confrontations Europe, Association Sarajevo, FIPA Sarajevo.
2005 International conference "Bosnia-Herzegovina Ten Years after Dayton and Beyond", Geneva. Organizer: Association "Bosnia and Herzegovina
2005", Switzerland.
2005 International academic conference "Genocide against the Bosniaks of the UN Safe Haven of Srebrenica in July 1995", Sarajevo. Organizer: Institute for Investigation of Crimes against Humanity and International Law.
2004 Seminar "Humanitarians in War: Heroes or Wictims", Brussells. Organizer: ICRC.
2004 International conference "Bosnia-Herzegovina towards a Functional State: Visions, Perspectives, Concepts", Sarajevo. Organizers: OHR, OSCE.
2004 Round table "The Status of Volunteer Work in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Current Legal Obstacles to its Continued Promotion and Development", Sarajevo. Organizer: Centre for the Promotion of Civil Society, Sarajevo.
2004 Regional conference "To Europe through Conscientious Objection and Civilian Service", Sarajevo.
2003 International conference "Spanish Democratic Transition", Sarajevo. Organizer: Spanish Embassy in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2002 International conference "Development of New International Policies: Lessons ( Not ) Learned", Sarajevo. Organizer: SOROS Foundation.
2001 International conference "Children as victims of war and peace", Sarajevo. Organizer: War Crimes Investigation Centre, Sarajevo.
2000 International conference "Democratic Changes in the Former Yugoslav Region". Texas, Austin, USA.
2000 International seminar "Dissolution of Yugoslavia 1991-1995", Brussels, Belgium.
1999 Conference of Divided Cities (Beirut, Belfast, Berlin, Jerusalem, Nicosia, Sarajevo), Sarajevo.
1999 Conference "European Cities for Human Rights", Barcelona, Spain.
1999 Conference "European Experience and Development of Democracy in Bosnia-Herzegovina", Graz, Austria. Presented on "National Myths in Bosnia-Herzegovina".
1999 Conference "The Wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina", Budapest, Hungary. Presented on "Characteristics of the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina".
1998 Victimological symposium "Suffering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Mitigation of its Consequences", Sarajevo. Organizer: Victimological Society of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1998 NATO Information Seminar, Sarajevo.
1998 International conference "Bosnian Paradigm", Sarajevo. Organizer: "Forum Bosna", Sarajevo.
1998 European conference "Cities for Human Rights", Barcelona. Organizer: City of Barcelona.
1997 Symposium "Exercise of Human Rights in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Theory and Practice", Graz. Organizer: Graz University.
1997 Conference "Europa per Bosnia", Barcelona, Spain. Presented on "The Aggression against Bosnia-Herzegovina" and "The Future of Bosnia-Herzegovina".
1997 International seminar "Reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina", London, Great Britain. Organizer: Association for Central and Eastern Europe.
1997 IV Summer School of Democracy, Crikvenica, Republic of Croatia.
1996 Conference "The Future of Bosnia-Herzegovina". Copenhagen, Denmark. Organizer: Danish Institute for International Policy.
1996 Seminar "Reconciliation in Bosnia", London. Foundation for a Civil Society, New York, and the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe.
1996 Round table "Dialogue of Peace", Vienna, Austria. Presented on "Opportunities of the Dayton Peace and the Future of Bosnia". Organizer: Austrian government.
1995 International congress on documentation of 1992-1995 genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina" Bonn, Germany. Organizer: Society for Threatened Peoples, Federal Republic of Germany. Presented on "The Role of the JNA in the Aggression against Bosnia-Herzegovina".
BOOKS
2004 "Sarajevo, mon amour". Entretin Florens La Bruyere; publisher Buchet-Chastel 2004. Foreword by Bernard-Henry Levy.
2000 "Ratovi u Hrvatskoj i Bosni i Hercegovini 1991-1995". Offprint on the aggression against Bosnia-Herzegovina. "Dani" and Jesenski and Tura 1999.
AWARDS
2007. Acknowledgement - Person of the year, Kulin Ban charter, Association B-H, Manheim, Germany.
2007. Acknowledgement Takunda - Person of the year on Balkan on field of tolerance and coexistence, Association Cesvi, Bergamo, Italia.
2006 Ambassador Peace Circle, Geneve, 2006 Ambasador mira, Ambassadeur de la Paix, Peace
2005 City of Sarajevo 6th April Award, Sarajevo
2003 Honorary Citizen Plaque, Montesilvano, Italy
2003 Honorary Citizen Medal, Grenoble, France
2003 Honorary Citizen Medal, Villerest, France
2003 Honorary Citizen Medal, Saumur, France
2001 Honorary Citizen Medal, Padova, Italy
2001 Plaque and monetary award of the City of Padova, Italy
2001 Legion of Honour, France
2001 Town of Vicenza Award, Italy
1999 Humanist of the Year Plaque of the International League of Humanists, Sarajevo |
