Beginning of one beautiful friendship - DPJF and ADIZIS SEE

Mirela Rajkovic from Secretariat, together with colleagues from Youth Communication Center Banja Luka, participated on meeting with ADIZIS SEE in order to plan joint activity. ADIZIS South East Europe is part of the ADIZID Group - 7th strongest business consultancy Agency on world that gathers family business from SEE regional and helps them to growth.

This activity was organized in the frame of Divided Past – Joint Future program since one of the result is to motivate business sector to invest in activities which are contributing to peace and reconciliation. We have decided to start this partnership with ADIZIS since they has network of mid-size and big family companies which are doing its business in the region. Family companies are those one which has at least 2 generation that govern family business. Our hypothesis was that family companies will care more about peaceful and connected society because if conflict starts their business will be highly affected, while for example big international companies will simply leave the country and come back when conflict stops. Interesting is that ADIZIS has club 20-40 in which participate junior leadership of those companies who are the one who will take over responsibility of company performance soon.

At the Belgrade meeting we have discussed various opportunities for cooperation and try to find out interest of business sector to invest in peace and reconciliation policy. One of the meeting outcomes is the joint event we will organize 11 – 12th of September in Serbia where we will have opportunity to directly work with 40 companies and find out common ground for cooperation. It will be first joint event we will plan with ADIZIS and other companies in order to have insight for future cooperation and meetings that will happened in 2019.