Edited sentence: A USAID-funded Cross-Border Cooperation and Reconciliation (CBCR) project has worked to bring residents from both sides of the international border together in a football tournament in Skelani.Bajina Basta was a centre for employment and shopping for residents of Skelani.Before the Bosnian war Skelani was administratively, and in many ways culturally, very closely connected to the Bajina Basta municipality.Instead of being able to go to Bajina Basta to hospital or go shopping residents have to travel to Srebrenica over still difficult roads.Local NGOs and the CBCR project encouraged teams from Bajina Basta and Bosnian Serb communities to join teams mostly from the municipality of Srebrenica in this tournament as a step towards encouraging cooperation and cross-border and inter-ethnic contacts.Since the war Skelani has remained isolated, cut off from access to many basic necessities.Skelani (BiH) is in the Srebrenica municipality and.Skelani is a small village in Srebrenica Municipality, 50 km from the town of Srebrenica via unpaved roads through the Zeleni Jadar Mountains or via the town of Bratunac.Skelani is much closer to Bajina Basta only 3 km away in Serbia, across the bridge over the Drina River.Skelani was supplied with telephone connections and power via Bajina Basta.The nearest hospital to Skelani was in Bajina Basta and many children from Skelani were born and attended school there.The tournament has provided an opportunity  for people who grew up together, worked together and even fought against each other to meet up again after years of isolation (for example the members of the re-formed multi-ethnic team representing the village of Crvice).There is a Bosnian saying that when you live in isolation you end up “ni na nebu ni na zemlji” -‘neither in the sky nor on earth’ - an observation  often used to refer to the way people in Skelani live.Time consuming international border procedures, mistrust and prejudice make crossing the border  into Serbia difficult.When the war began, Skelani was cut off from Srebrenica but also from its connections with Serbia