Valdete Idrizi

Valdete Idrizi with Secretary Rice

Valdete Idrizi is the exuctive director of the CiviKos platform (in 2017).[1] She was the executive director of the NGO Community-Building Mitrovica, which she founded, and which works for peace and builds community in the Mitrovica region in northern Kosovo.[2][3] For six years prior to 2008, Community-Building Mitrovica was the only organization in Mitrovica which encouraged reconciliation and rebuilding of relationships between ethnic Albanians and Serbs. [4] Idrizi herself is an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo in North Mitrovica who lost her home in 1999 when the Serbs invaded. [2][4] [3] In 2008 her home was still occupied by Serbs.[2] Community-Building Mitrovica has managed to arrange the return of some Serbs to their homes in Kosovo, for which Idrizi received death threats from Kosovar Albanian militants.[2]

Idrizi received a 2008 International Women of Courage Award and the 2009 Soroptimist International Peace Award. [4] [5] [3]

She was chosen as CiviKos Platform Executive Director in December 2011; CiviKos is an initiative of civil society organizations in Kosovo "aimed at creating an enabling environment for [the] cooperation of [the] formal civil society sector and the Government."[1]

References

  1. 1 2 , Civikos, Retrieved 11 February 2017
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kosovo's 'Woman of Courage' Bridges Ethnic Divide | WBUR & NPR
  3. 1 2 3 Valdete Idrizi | WISE Muslim Women
  4. 1 2 3 International Women of Courage Award Ceremony: 2008
  5. ↑ Valdete Idrizi wins Award - Community Building Mitrovica
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