At the request from the seat of the Conference on the former Yugoslavia in Geneva, the Foundation made a proposal solution to the crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina in October 1992. All the principles of the project were included in the constitutional basis of the so-called Ahtisaari plan, i.e. the proposal for the constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina within the Vance-Owen Plan.
However, the plan failed as the idea of regionalization in the Vance-Owen plan significantly deviated from the idea given by the Foundation, as it was based on ethnic division. The Foundation was regularly in contact with the top officials in the Kremlin, the Elysee Palace, the White House, the Palace of Nations, the EU headquarters in Brussels, international negotiators who would come and leave the SEE countries, from Lord Carrington and Hans Van Der Brook to Lord Owen and Richard Holbrooke.
At the initiative made at a meeting with a group of former leaders from the Western countries - President Ford and d'Estaing and Prime Minister Callahan and Smith, the Foundation made a peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the former Yugoslavia in mid-1993. Thinking that the international community is greatly responsible for prolonging the war in Bosnia by mid-1993, the Foundation pointed out that it was necessary that the greatest world powers should be united in their efforts to stop the war. In the first half of 1994 the open letter was addressed to the leaders of the most powerful countries, warning that a large part of the responsibility for the continuation of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was the fact that they were reluctant to work together and agree upon an action which would end the war. The ideas from that letter were soon officially welcomed by the Elysée Palace, the Kremlin and the White House. That was an initial idea for creating a Contact Group.
Financing
Since the establishment of the Foundation the majority of its activities were financed by the founder, Mr. Vukobrat. A number of projects was funded and implemented with the help of donors such as: the European Commission, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Council of Europe, the Swiss Embassy in Serbia, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Serbia (SDC-SECO), the Embassy of Austria in Serbia, the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Serbia and others.
The Foundation is grateful to all the donors who helped its activities.
