Mostar Friedensprojekt e.V. (MFP) is, since 1994, a registered non-governmental and a non-for-profit organization with charitable commitments in the state of Brandenburg, located with its head office in the city center of Potsdam. Additionally Mostar Friedensprojekt is registered as Mostar Mirovni Projekt since 1994 in Mostar and since 1995 in Sarajevo as humanitarian organisation under the auspices of the Federation BiH ministry of social affairs.
Its head office in Bosnia is in Kljuc, where we have built up an own infrastructure. The association organizes socio-cultural activities, artistic and cultural events and cultural publications at the local, national and international level. It has offered for many years information, general support, advice, logistic and humanitarian aid, job qualifications and consultancy to refugees and asylum seekers in the region of Brandenburg and Berlin.
Mostar Friedensproject is constantly coordinating and leading youth exchanges, European Voluntary Service, trainings, conferences, events and other support facilities within the framework of the European program Youth, Grundtvig, Europe for Citizen and LiFelong Learning. The association has the partners in many European countries, particularly in the Western Balkan, East Europe and the Caucasus. The most important aims and objectives of Mostar Friedensprojekt are to encourage and promote young people to commit to an active involvement in the democratic fight against racism and xenophobia, to stand up against prejudices and social exclusion in Germany and in Europe , especially South East Europe.
The association develops new forms and methods of inter-cultural learning for political-social-cultural issues, which we promote with our partners in many countries of Europe. We actively promote the ideals fo tolerance and the understanding for the diversity of culture and social behaviours. We do political education at the local and regional level, in Brandenburg and Berlin. One of the most important objectives of Mostar Friedensprojekt from its foundations is to stirr the debate about totalitarism in Europe in the twentieth century.
We have held several conferences focused on “European memory / remembrance culture(s)” and about the ways European national states are dealing with their National Socialist and Stalinist past. Mostar Friedensprojekt e.V. established and ran and still runs several projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina including a neighbourhood centre in Mostar, a center for physical theraphy and rehabilitation, a workshop for the manufacture of prosthesis for land mine victims and a center for international youth encounters in Kljuc, Bosnia and Herzegovina.