Slavica Indzevska-Stojanovic

Macedonia

Although avoiding the full-scale war that ravaged other post-Yugoslav states, Macedonia fell victim to sectarian violence as 2001 brought bitter fighting between rebels and government forces. As deputy executive director for joint programs of the Open Society Institute (OSI) in Skopje, Slavica Indzevska-Stojanovic has been responsible for strategic partnerships and the design, financing, and implementation of programs on gender mainstreaming, democracy-building, and improving interethnic relations. She supervises OSI’s programs on civil society development and Roma affairs and developed the concept and proposal for a gender studies research center in Macedonia. Having organized humanitarian assistance for female Kosovar refugees, she also designed a program to bring vocational courses and social clubs to women in the Neprosteno refugee camp. Ms. Indzevska-Stojanovic is currently a Mason fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, focusing on negotiation and leadership. With a bachelor’s degree in journalism, she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in communications at Skopje’s Institute for Juridical, Political, and Sociological Research.

Ms. Indzevska-Stojanovic’s peace-building activities include:

• helping shape and implement “Women’s Activist Cross Border Actions,” a project enabling some 50 women from the former Yugoslavia to travel to cities across the new borders, visit areas where atrocities were committed, and speak with policymakers and women’s groups;
• designing and supervising “Citizen’s Platform for Peace and Stability,” a program focusing on political education and participation in 10 cities in Macedonia in advance of the 2002 parliamentary elections;
• spearheading and overseeing the creation of the “School for Democracy” project and helping organize “Power Is with the People,” a public education campaign—both in preparation for the 2002 elections;
• organizing and supervising the 2002 NGO Congress, a project that analysed the need for development and the promotion of partnerships for sustainable community development in Macedonia, and editing the resulting volume NGO Congress, which details the program and its outcomes; and
• editing a number of works on peace building and democracy, including, Peace vs. War: It’s up to Us, an evaluation of OSI- and US Agency for International Development-funded programs, and Perspectives on the Framework Agreement, which analysed the treaty that brought an end to conflict in Macedonia, as well as editing books on non-governmental organizations in Macedonia.

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