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                    BALKAN INITIATIVES, INC.


	With the conviction that the cultures of the Balkan 
peninsula are important but poorly understood in the Western 
world, and recognizing the historical and contemporary roles 
that women have played and are playing (from as early as 
Queen Teuta of the Illyrians to women working in the Balkans 
today in the economy, the arts, the professions, politics, 
and the home), six Americans have established a non-profit 
organization, based in New York, called Balkan Initiatives, 
Inc. Its fundamental aims are to transform the perceptions of 
outsiders, particularly in the United States, about all of 
these cultures and to work with organizations throughout the 
Balkans to encourage peaceful change.

	The founders and initial directors are Kathleen Imholz, 
a lawyer in New York City; Julie Mostov, a political theorist 
at Drexel University in Philadelphia; Marjorie Senechal, a 
mathematician and historian of science at Smith College, 
Northampton, Massachusetts; Luan Troxel, a political 
scientist currently in Germany; Walter Bacon, a political 
scientist at the University of Nebraska in Omaha; and Ageliki 
Nicopolou, an educational psychologist at Smith College. We 
take the "Balkans" to mean Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, 
Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, 
Turkey, and Yugoslavia.

	In the United States, our aims include publishing and 
disseminating a newsletter, writing, speaking and organizing 
conferences, and supporting Balkan research and culture.

	In the Balkans, we seek to work with or establish local 
affiliates, with a particular interest in developing economic 
activity by women; encouraging women entrepreneurs, artists, 
and professionals; and supporting the development of interest 
in and resources for women's participation in political life. 
One of our first projects is to support the creation of a 
magazine for women in Albania, in conjunction with a new 
Albanian foundation called Gra per Transformimin e Ballkanit 
(Women Transforming the Balkans).

	We welcome inquiries at

Kathleen Imholz
7 West 96th Street, #9C
New York, N.Y.  10025
e-mail: imholz@is.nyu.edu

We will soon have our own Web page!