On its route through the Alps-Adriatic region, the international base team of the World March reached Sarajevo after setting off from Vienna. There, the team made contact with the organization Mreža za Izgradnju Mira (Network for Peacebuilding), which coordinates around two hundred peace organizations and committees in Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro. Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Rubén Sánchez Imizcoz and Alessandro Capuzzo from the grassroots team met with Damir Šaćiragić, the coordinator of Mreža Mira.
The situation on the ground is still heavily influenced by the war traumas of the 1990s. The Dayton Agreement has created ethnic boundaries that make it difficult for Serbian and Croatian-Muslim communities to live together normally. This fragile situation could be exacerbated by the geopolitical instability exacerbated by the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Participation in the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence was proposed as a means of deepening links with the international peace movement in the coming years, including through a strategy of neutrality.
A first step in this direction could be the dissemination of the document For a Neutral Alps-Adriatic Region. This aims to denuclearize the international Gulf of Trieste, based on the new UN treaty banning nuclear weapons and the Paris Peace Treaty of 1947. The peace treaty, which established the disarmament and neutrality of the free territory and free port of Trieste, today faces the threat of illegal transformation into a logistical base for a front against Russia. At the same time, it could serve as an arrival point for the cotton route from India, a point of conflict that is also linked to Israel’s wars against its neighboring countries.
The translation from Italian was done by Reto Thumiger from the Pressenza volunteer translation team. We are looking for volunteers!