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With some parallels to be drawn between them and
the open society foundation, aimed at making tolerant and vibrant democracies. You guys think I came up with toleran and progresiv? I don't do satire, nothing can be exaggerated. Both are funded by Soros and their ilk, Soros also serving as a hilarious face for a nebulous group of highly influential and highly wealthy multinational practitioners.
Anyone who has experienced up close, as influenced history is at such moments that comes from the temptation to shape it as fast probably not going.
In Bosnia, after the treaty of Dayton, it must have been like that. To whom should we contact who can be trusted, who told brazen lies, what is possible and what is not? Knaus and some friends, all experts in the orbit of NGOs, World Bank, UN and OSCE, observed the perplexity of the decision makers at close range. One evening they were sitting in the garden of the hunters association Lovac, an inn in the center of Sarajevo, and decided to remedy the situation - it was the beginning of their research institute.
The money comes from governments and foundations, from Scandinavia, Ireland, the Rockefeller Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the First Bank.
ESI's 8 founding members were a group of young people who had worked in different organisations in and on the Balkans: OSCE, the World Bank, OHR, the European Commission, various European Foreign Ministries. Their motivation: to help international institutions understand their environment and become more effective in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, and to advance the integration of the Balkans into the European Union following the end of the Kosovo war.
The founding members were soon joined by others who shared these ambitions.
The first European government to support ESI was Sweden and the head of its Balkan Department, Bjoern Lyrvall.
In March 2000 the Swedish Foreign Ministry and ESI organised a high-level policy seminar at Johannesberg Castle near Stockholm to reflect on ways forward for Bosnia. Gerald presented ESI's ideas. The seminar was attended by High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch and former High Representative Carl Bildt.
President Clinton's envoy, US Ambassador Richard Sklar, would soon refer to "Stockholm conclusions": an emerging policy consensus in favour of strengthening central state institutions. Following the Stockholm seminar, ESI cooperated closely with OHR in preparing for the Brussels Peace Implementation Council (PIC) meeting held in May 2000.
Thanks to our unique network of Strategic Partners and Supporters, we are able to offer our analysis and services free of charge.
We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of all our donors, who value our work and have supported us financially. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency is suporting our work on EU enlargement, capacity building, and EU-Turkey relations. Stiftung Mercator and the Robert Bosch Stiftung have made the Schengen White List Project possible, which aims to contribute to the abolition of the visa requirement for all Western Balkan countries and Turkey. The Foundation to Promote Open Society supports our work to promote reform of key European institutions and to ensure a more robust response to human rights violations, most notably politically-motivated detentions and torture. ERSTE Stiftung is supporting ESI's work on the Balkans and on EU enlargement, including the EU enlargement portal. ERSTE Stiftung also funded the Return to Europe documentary films.
The Swiss Foreign Ministry supported our work on advocating for an inclusive debate on the education system in Kosovo. The Dutch Foreign Ministry supported our research on Macedonia's stalled EU accession. The European Commission supported our research project on EU-Turkey relations. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation helped us to support local efforts to map social and economic trends. The Norwegian Minstry of Foreign Affairs and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office were supporting our municipal research and allowing us to present it to an even wider audience. The British Department for International Development supported an ESI Bosnian Governance Assessment. The Open Society Institute was a major core funder, also supporting capacity building in the Caucasus. We would not have been able to co-organize conferences without the cooperation with partners such as Wilton Park and the King Baudouin Foundation. In the past, the Governments of Sweden, Slovenia, Ireland, Canada, Germany and the Dutch Embassy in Sarajevo have been dedicated supporters of ESI, funding our research and our studies. The United States Institute of Peace has funded the ESI Montenegro project, enabling us to produce two major reports and a policy proposal. The Swedish Institute for International Affairs sponsored and co-organised ESI's first high-level brainstorming seminar, inviting key policy makers and regional experts to develop new policy concepts for the future. Core funding has been provided by a variety of Supporters, most notably the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the Swedish government which in particular has supported our work on the Balkans and Turkey. With their generous financial support, all these institutions have enabled us to directly assist policymakers engaged in difficult decisions on complex issues.
With their generous financial support, all these institutions have enabled us to directly assist policymakers engaged in difficult decisions on complex issues. We thank all our Supporters for their constant encouragement and financial support!
Current supporters:
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
Stiftung Mercator
Foundation to promote Open Society
ERSTE Stiftung
DIE ERSTE österreichische Spar-Casse Privatstiftung
Past supporters:
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Swedish Government
Utenriksdepartementet
Open Society Institute
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Department for International Development (DFID)
European Commission
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Ministrstvo za zunanje zadeve
Departement of Foreign Affairs
Auswärtiges Amt
Udenriksministeriet
Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken
United States institute Of Peace
Utrikespolitiska Institutet
DEZA
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
King Baudouin Foundation
Körber Stiftung
Wilton Park
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