Welcome to the Chechen Civil Society Forum

 

The Chechen Civil Society Forum (CCSF) was established on 20th September 2005 as a unique platform for internal networking and external self-representation for civil society actors from Chechnya who share the goals and values of the Forum. The Forum was created in response to the fragmentation and isolation that Chechen society faces today. A wide representation of delegates founded the Forum by deciding to focus not on what divides them, but on what unifies them – the goal for peace. Under this common banner, the Forum aims to facilitate networking and coordination by consolidating forces within civil society in order to bolster the impact of local and international initiatives for peace in Chechnya. The Forum refutes all forms of violence and is committed to working in a spirit of tolerance.

Latest news: The Chechen Civil Society Forum recently held its 2nd General Members Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey on 10th September 2006. Renowned Chechen ethnographer and Director of the Institute for Chechen Culture, Said-Magomed Khasiev, was elected as President of the Forum. Other members of the Board elected on a regional basis were: Minkail Ezhiev (deputy head) in Grozny, Ruslan Badalov in Nazran', Israpil Shovkhalov in Moscow and Sultan Yashchurkaev in Belgium. The international secretariat of the Forum remains at the Society for Threatened Peoples in Bern, Switzerland for another year with regional secretariats in Grozny and Brussels.  ------- ------- This website is currently under reconstruction and will shortly be relaunched. We thank you for your understanding.

This is the official website of the CCSF. Information relating to the CCSF ascertained from other sources cannot be verified.