The Center for Peace and Multiethnic Cooperation in Mostar is a non-governmental and non-profit organization founded in 2001, with the aim of researching and documenting significant events in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region. The Center’s documentation includes several thousand original photographs, over 400,000 authentic documents, and several thousand hours of video material, which testify to wartime and post-war events from 1992 to the present. The goal of the Center for Peace is to prevent the recurrence of the suffering endured by the citizens of Mostar and Herzegovina of all nationalities and religions, and to preserve the truth about this suffering as a permanent testimony and warning for future generations.

The Center for Peace and Multiethnic Cooperation Mostar intends to promote the development of a multiethnic society in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region, and to work towards lasting reconciliation among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia. The Center collects data on many events in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region with the intent to make them accessible to the public through publications, books, documentaries, and various online services, as a lasting reminder to future generations of the value of peace.

The most important activity of the Center for Peace over the years has been monitoring and supporting the work of the Hague Tribunal (ICTY). The International Court of Justice in The Hague was a key mechanism that contributed to peace processes, prosecuted and eliminated war criminals and leaders who were instigators of the war and disrupted peace negotiations. The peace process known as “Do not forget, but forgive” became a political formula that, with the support of progressive politicians and the international community, reignited processes of reconciliation and coexistence in the war-torn and divided city of Mostar, and inspired peace processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region.