Valdete Idrizi

Valdete Idrizi with Secretary Rice

Valdete Idrizi is 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.[1][2] 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. [3] Idrizi herself is an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo in North Mitrovica who lost her home in 1999 when the Serbs invaded. [1][3] [2] As of 2008 her home is still occupied by Serbs. [1] 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. [1] 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." [4] [5]

Idrizi received a 2008 International Women of Courage Award and the 2009 Soroptimist International Peace Award. [3] [6] [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Kosovo's 'Woman of Courage' Bridges Ethnic Divide | WBUR & NPR
  2. 1 2 3 Valdete Idrizi | WISE Muslim Women
  3. 1 2 3 International Women of Courage Award Ceremony: 2008
  4. ↑ CiviKos has appointed new Executive Director - KFOS
  5. ↑ Home - CiviKos
  6. ↑ Valdete Idrizi wins Award - Community Building Mitrovica
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