Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 11:51:00 CET
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Subject: Peace Group in Pancevo, Vojvodina
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                            Pancevo Peace Movement 

                              General Information


                          Status on  1 November 1992


                               Table of Content


1.           Name, composition and origin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1

2.           Goals, aims and means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1

3.           Permanent actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1

4.           Temporary actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
             4.1.  Panel discussions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
             4.2.  Open-air performances               . . . . . . . . . .   2
             4.3.  Workshops   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
             4.4.  Other actions     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2

5.           Public Relations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2

6.           Cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
             6.1.  Domestic - national                 . . . . . . . . . .   3
             6.2.  International     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
                   6.2.1.      Former Yugoslav Republics . . . . . . . . .   3
                   6.2.2.      "Real" foreign countries. . . . . . . . . .   3

7.           Financing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4

8.           Premises. Facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4

9.           Plans on further actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4

10.          International contact information . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4



1.           Name, composition and origin

             
             Peace Movement Pancevo is the name under which a group of very
dedicated activists are operating in the city of Pancevo. The city itself
belongs to the Province of  Vojvodina and is located near the northern bank of
Danube river ( 10 miles northeast of Belgrade ). 
             There are more then 30 every-day-active members and about 100
supporters. Peace Movement Pancevo ( hereinafter called "The Movement") is
organised rather loosely, with the general coordination performed by the group
of most active members.
             The Movement was established in August 1991, the time which
coincides with the emergence of the Civil war in Yugoslavia.
             

2.           Goals, aims and means

             The principal goals of the Movement are:

             a) to foster the ideas of peace;
             b) to promote the way and means of non-violent conflict       
             resolutions; 
             c) to spread out the ideas of peace and non-violence among the
             people of Pancevo and surrounding

             In its activities in order to fulfil the goals and aims, the
Movement are using various means ( such as publication facts on its activities
in local newspaper and announcements on local broadcasting station ) and
performing permanent as well as temporary actions.

3.           Permanent actions

             
             The Movement has the following traditional permanent actions:

             1) Lighting the candles to commemorate all casualties of the
             bloodstained Yugoslav Civil war - the action are taking place
             every day in the city centre of Pancevo;

             2) "Ladies in black" performance - peaceful demonstration of
             women to show the sorrow of mothers, wives, sisters and daugh-
             ters for war causalities - the action is performed once per
             month by walking with signs against the war.


4.           Temporary actions

             
             For the period August 1991 - November 1992 the following is
worthwhile to be listed:

4.1.         Panel discussions 

             Under the auspices of the Movement, more than 20 Panel dis-
cussions were held in Pancevo. Speaker list varies from the distinguished
University Professors and Fellows of the Academy of Science through lawyers,
psychologists, clerics, media reporters, and political parties and Trade
Unions leaders to the activists of other Peace organisations and similar
associations (Feminist movement etc), including, to give an example only, a
Vietnam war veteran. 
             All topics were chosen in such manner to interpret various
aspects of the need for peace, freedom and democracy.
             The audience were different both in size (from several tenths to
several hundreds) and in social and national background ( intellectuals,
workers, Serbs, Hungarians, Slovaks, farmers...).

4.2.         Open-air performances   

             Five open-air performances has been organised in the City centre
to denote some most difficult, sensitive and full of warnings moments in
entire Yugoslav crises: some moments in Croatia war, escalation of war in
Bosnia, cases of ethnic cleansing in Vojvodina, non-legitime elections in
Serbia etc.

4.3.         Workshops   

             Thanking to the assistance of German and U.S. Peace activists,
the following workshops has been held:
             (1)  Methods of non-violent conflict resolutions
             (2)  Active Listening Projects

The later one is still in progress and it is dealing with ethnic conflicts in
the village of Banatski Brestovac, 35 km from Pancevo.

4.4.         Other actions     

             The Movement was involved in almost all actions managed by
various peace and other alternative groups from Belgrade and in some actions
conducted by other peace organisations in Vojvodina. The support has been
given through collection of signatures for various petitions as well as trough
the presence of Pancevo activist on actions in Belgrade, some towns in
Vojvodina and elsewhere.


5.           Public Relations

             
             The Movements activities were recorded by local newspaper
"Pancevac" and local broadcasting station "Radio-Pancevo" till recently.
However, the newly nominated management of both medii are nor open for ideas
on freedom, democracy and peace.
             Posters and leaflets were and still are one of the valuable
public relations methods.
             


6.           Cooperation

             
6.1.         Domestic - national     

             
             The Movement has regular contacts with most Belgrade situated
organisations and groups, such as with the Centre for Anti-war Actions,
Belgrade Circle ( the association of liberal intellectuals ) and others.
             Contacts also exists with similar groups from Vojvodina  ( Peace
Activity Group in Ada, European Civic Centre for Conflict Resolution at
Subotica and some others.


6.2.         International     

             
6.2.1.       Former Yugoslav Republics 

             The Movement has almost regular ( if this word could be appro-
priate in the circumstances ) contacts with Peace organisations from Ljubljana
( Rep. of Slovenia), as well as from Zagreb, Rijeka, Osijek and Split (Rep. of
Croatia).
             There were some contacts with groups ( e.g. Feminist groups)
from Skopje ( Rep. of Macedonia).
             Before the outbreak of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a very good
relations have been established with Peace groups from Sarajevo.

6.2.2.       "Real" foreign countries

             
             The Movement has received a great number of goodwill messages
from more than 50 organisations, groups and individuals from dozen countries.
It might be prejudiced to emphasize only some, but there is lot of support
from United Kingdom and lot of interest from Austria and Germany.
             Active Listening Project mentioned in section 4.3 has been
accomplished with the valuable assistance of the Rural Southern Voice for
Peace (North Carolina, USA) and the International Fellowship of Reconcili-
ation.
             The Movement members have participated at the Peace meetings in
Vienna (Austria) and Verona (Italy). Some of them also took part at the first
gathering of women from all parts of former Yugoslavia, held in Venice
(Italy).
             Contacts have been established with and the documentation on the
Movements activities and plans are in the course of preparation to be sent to
the:
             (1)  Dr. Karl-Renner-Institute,Vienna, Austria
             (2)  Peace Pledge Union, London, U.K.
             (3)  Oesterreichische Bewegung gegen den Krieg, Vienna, Austria


7.           Financing

             
             The Movement has no permanent financial resources. Some money is
collected as very small donations for candles. There are some income as the
result of selling the liberal independent weekly "Vreme" ( colporteurs are the
Movements members).
             Small donations from foreign Peace and alternative groups were
welcomed very much.
             There is no firm memberships fee.
             
             Financing remains one of the major constrains for further
development and actions.

8.           Premises. Facilities

             There is no permanent premises of the Movement. Small meetings
are taking place in the flats of some members, and some general-purpose
meeting rooms are hired for bigger  events.
             There are no fixed assets of the Movement. Some members are
using their own ( or from their offices) telephones, computers, copying
machines etc.
             The Movement badly needs facsimile machine and E-Mail/fax modem,
the later one as the only means of communication with colleagues from Zagreb
and Ljubljana ( e.g. via GreenNet ).
             The lack of stationery and spare parts ( e.g. diskettes, printer
ribbons etc) is also evident.

9.           Plans on further actions

             The Movement plans to increase its activity in the forthcoming
period on the basis of general goals and already performed actions.
             Separate documents describing ideas and plans is in the coarse
of production.


Peace Movement Pancevo                                November 1992




10.          International contact information

             
Mailing address:               Telephone:                                 Fax:
Peace Movement                 +38 13 46 444                     +38 13 46 444
c/o M S Mandrino               (from 1700 - 0100 Central European Time)
P O Box 14                                                              E-Mail
26000 Pancevo                              from Z-NET:PPM_PANCEVO@ZAMIR-BG.ZER
Yugoslavia                   from INTERNET etc:PPM_PANCEVO@ZAMIR-BG.COMLINK.DE
                                 from APC:PPM_PANCEVO@ZAMIR-BG.COMLINK.APC.ORG




Last minute additions:
From mid-december Peace Movement Pancevo is equipped with simple fax maschine
and with E-mail modem.
Please note fax number and E-Mail address!







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