Who's who
Mittal Steel
Mittal Steel effectively own and control the Omarska/Ljubija mine, with a 51% stake in a joint venture with RZR Lubija that was agreed in April 2004. They also own a 92% stake in BH Steel, based in Zenica, along with other regional operations. They have a local manager and a regional base in Rotterdam, plus corporate communications and other management in the UK. Their Central Europe CEO seems to have done what he can to expedite a solution and clearly seeks an equitable and fair resolution of the memorial issue.
The Omarska/Ljubija Mine Management
The mine management is Serb-run and has close ties to the local Republika Srska authoritiies in Prijedor. Soul of Europe have sought to involve their managers and key staff in every stage of the discussion, despite the fact that they are at best ambivalent towards the right of survivors to commemorate the camp. See this piece from Tribunal Watch for background about the mine managements role in the camp.
Local Bosniak organisations
The remarkable Srcem do Mira has played an important role in opening up Kozarac to returnees, and have held an annual conference every year in Kozarac since the mid-1990's. They are intimately involved with the Soul of Europe process. They are linked to the UK-based Dandelion Trust.
IZVOR is a women's forum based in Prijedor that has also been extremely active in local issues for a long time. It contains respected local figures and has been involved in a number of international human right initiatives. Izvor has been excluded by the Soul of Europe process because one of its key people, Edin Ramulic, disagrees with some of the decisions taken on the project to date.
There are other local organisations, such as the Association of camp survivors, who may also be involved in the project going forward.
The Diaspora
As a result of the ethnic cleansing of the Kozarac region, there are Omarska survivors and families of the victims in a number of countries, including the UK, USA, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, New Zealand and other places. Individuals in the Netherlands and UK have so far been active in the memorial project, with interest from other countries.
In the Netherlands, Optimisti 2004 have been active in representing the diaspora in Holland, whilst Kemal Pervanic has been active in solicitng the views of the diaspora in the UK, which the Soul of Europe have neglected entirely.
The Bosnian Government
The post-Dayton Bosnian government is a dysfunctional body that holds the world record for the the number of individuals employed as Ministers and manages to consume the majority of the country's GNP to run its administration; but the Dayton settlement left it hamstrung and unable to deal with contentious issues without international involvement.
The local Mayor, Marko Pavic, says it is "impossible to know" what happened at Omarska in 1992 - not surprising since he played a key role in the takeover of Prijedor, as described by Human Rights Watch here. His offhand dismissal of the project is captured in a short interview for More4 news recently, linked from this page.
The RS assembly remains in a state of denial about what happened in Omarska, but it's only Bosniak MP, camp survivor Muharem Murselovic, is a leading member of the Soul of Europe project.
The Office of the High Representative
In Bosnia, OHR remains for the time being the final arbiter of contentious decisions that impact on the civilian aspects of the Dayton implementation process, including issues relating to the return of refugees and displaces persons.
They have established a precedent for intervention in issues of national importance relating to the commemoration of genocide in Bosnia, and OHR has both the powers and the political instruments to require cooperation from Republika Srpska authorities in such matters, especially in a high profile case such as Omarska where it can be demonstrated that it is key to peaceful relations between returnees and the local authorities.
Unfortunately, they have so far sought to avoid taking a position on the Omarska Memorial, despite the fact that if the project fails this could endanger Bosnia's biggest and most important Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to date. When OHR talk about the fact there can be "no peace without justice" it seems they are not talking about Omarksa. | 
