Our Projects
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Fostering Social Cohesion
MIRCURY is advancing a long-term conflict resolution dialogue and peace investments program to bring our multidisciplinary approach into practice.
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We focus on Bosnia Herzegovina in the context of broader European stability and inclusive cooperation. Despite its considerable potential, the country remains politically and economically unstable, with deep societal divisions, high emigration, and increasing influence from regional and geopolitical actors. Instability persists due to the entrenched socio-psychological dynamics, despite its negative impact on basic services and societal coexistence.
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We aim to contribute to positive societal change by comprehensively addressing the socio-psychological factors that drive humans apart and by generating economic incentives that can bring people together. We drive socio-economic peace investment projects to unlock the current status-quo that only benefits the few and fuels societal tensions. The goal is to contribute to a narrative that transcends a divisive political system, instead fostering social cohesion.
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Key features of our approach are:
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Beyond political circles, we convene a unique group of influential leaders from key professional public and private sectors, including CEOs of banks, a President of a judicial court, CEO’s of large private sector companies, university deans, public hospital directors, and leading urban planners. These are leaders strongly embedded in society, cognisant of societal tensions and political realities, and capable of exerting societal and political influence at the national level and jointly forming “a credible voice”.
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Our primary focus is implementing tangible socio-economic projects (peace investments). These can include projects in infrastructure, digitalisation in the healthcare sector or student exchange programs – demonstrating tangible societal benefits. We are not a “talkshop”. Practical problem solving and storytelling is at the core of our concept.
We build social platforms and engage meaningfully with political circles to achieve psychological, attitudinal and social positive change on the part of Bosnian public and political opinion.
MIRCURY runs a series of workshops on the topics of conflict-resolution, peace-building and our innovative approach.
During the workshops, professionals, students and academics learn new skills or build on their existing knowledge of mediation, negotiation and dialogue construction.
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In the last months, we have had the pleasure to run workshops and engage with young professionals in The Netherlands, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Switzerland.
Our goal has been to provide a contribution to the global academic and practical debates on peace building and conflict resolution, engage future leaders into these conversations and refine our own methodology through these exchanges.
Conferences and Events
MIRCURY actively participates in conferences and events related to peace building, from the Berghof Berlin MOOT Conference to visits to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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We constantly engage with developments in the fields of peace-building and conflict resolution, keeping up with new research, exploring new cases, and building up and testing our methodology.
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Presenting MIRCURY's ideas at large scale events has yielded attention to our innovative approach, confirmed the importance of a multidisciplinary vision and established us as visible players in the field.
Our Work:
MIRCURY contributes to several projects with Universities and academic Institutes.
