In 2001 TIDES was contacted by Concern Worldwide to design a Conflict management
programme in the Peja/Pec region of Northwest Kosovo. This area suffered some of
the worst violence of the inter-ethnic violence between mainly the Serbs and the
ethnic Albanian communities. TIDES helped initiate a programme of training and
mentoring for both local and international Concern staff to help support them
develop some of the first “inter-ethnic” community capacity building programmes
in the then UN [UNMIK] Administered Kosovo. This included key projects with and
within the Serb Enclave of Gorazadavec. Within 18 months Concern were able to
establish 5 programmes, which included income generation, womens capacity
building and youth projects. Concern period of mission finished at the end 2002.
They were so impressed by these achievement that they developed a cross-over
partnership with Care International to allow the project to be expanded and
developed across Kosovo to include Prostina, Ghilane and Mitrovica. This project
was also exciting asked to develop a harmonisation of the principles of RBA
{rights based Approach} and Conflict management.

The team that TIDES was training expanded from 6 to nearly 40 people. In 2004
TIDES is trying to complete a Training of Trainers programme for key Care
International staff to allow them to locally develop the training as part of
a long community stabilisation programme between the majority Albanian
community, the remaining Serb communities and in support of the UN in their
task to help the 200,000 remaining IDP’s {Internally Displaced People] resolve
their situation.