MOTIVATION | How can empathetic partnership, economic development, and social integration facilitate reconciliation between two former adversaries?
CONCEPT | Invite leaders from the Balkans to express their motivations and reflect on challenges facing them as they try to mend ethnic divisions in Bosnia and Serbia.
EXECUTION | President Bill Clinton was joined by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksander Vucic and Camil Durakovic, the mayor of Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
BACKSTAGE | I left the Green Room to watch this session in-person. It was like watching live history: two honest people, constrained by ghosts of their pasts and voters of their present, trying to make gestures of good faith.
In his closing remarks, President Clinton echoed the sentiment: “Over the course of this meeting, many have come up to me saying, “that was the most powerful panel ever put on by CGI.”
