The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has financed earlier phases of the project on field research and data information processing, documentation archiving and report production. In an effort to enable a comprehensive reintegration of society, facing the past needs to be supported by the authorities and fully accepted and supported by civil society, and by the victims of serious violations of international humanitarian law – war crimes, genocide, inhuman and degrading treatment, and all other violations of human rights and freedoms.
Objectives for the RDC in 2007 are:
• Finalize the projects: Human Losses and Information System.
• Complete the first phase of Digitalization and Preservation of the RDC’s Archives
• Develop methodology and prepare two new research projects, Memory and Memorials, and Political Propaganda and War Media;
• Start practical implementation of the Oral History-Positive Stories project;
• Implement two projects for the strengthening of infrastructure and public presentations: Conflict Prevention Capacity Building (CPCB), Human Losses/Truth-telling - Public Outreach;
• Complete the infrastructure development for research, archive and club capacities
• Provide the equipment and furniture for the club, including purchase and catalogue library units as part of the CPCB project ;
• Continue the regional cooperation development;
• Continue educational programs for the RDC personnel, as well as the program of support for students, volunteers, professionals, and researchers in the area of humanitarian law, human rights, and other social research closely related to the RDC area of work;
• Prepare and define methods, structure, drafts, samples, hypothesis, field work organization, time frame for data collection, techniques of data collection, methods for the new information systems (database) usage, and statistical data processing for research projects such are Memory and Memorials, Political Propaganda and War Media, Oral History – Positive Stories;
• Conduct additional trainings for employees for work with the new database;
• Continue the Trial Monitoring of War Crimes in BiH project in 2007;
• Continue support and cooperation with researchers, victims, and witnesses;
• Continue the cooperation with the Courts and Prosecutor’s Office.