In December 1995, the Dayton Agreement was finally signed. Peace begins, but the city of Barcelona does not forget its commitment and gets involved in the physical and social reconstruction of Bosnia, and especially of Sarajevo. According to this, the Barcelona City Council decides, on the one hand, to assume solidarity within its administrative structure and creates “Districte XI – Sarajevo”. This project, funded with part of the City Council budget and managed by qualified personnel, represented the formalisation of the beginning of the cooperation and solidarity commitment with the rest of the world. On the other hand, the Barcelona City Council also decided to follow a policy of internationalisation of the city aimed at sharing human and economic efforts in geographical areas with historic and cultural ties and with a lack of resources.

Together with the convoys of humanitarian aid which continued to be sent during these four years, the Barcelona City Council, through District XI, committed itself to the process of reconstruction of Mojmilo, the Sarajevo Olympic Village, as well as to the rehabilitation of the Sports Centre of Zetra. New projects kept being added to this initiative, like for example the assistance to repatriated families, the sending of buses, support to the mass media, collaboration in the electoral processes, training courses and rehabilitation of collective services amongst others. In addition, the networks of relations created during the war period were used to start the project “Family to Family”, the object of which was to bring public and private organisms from different professional sectors together in order to carry out common exchange projects.

Sarajevo continues to be the reception centre of Barcelona’s cooperation and it is where most of the municipal and civil solidarity activities are carried out through the Embassy of Local Democracy, founded in 1996. The Barcelona City Council, however, is aware of the fact that the efforts aimed at the creation of its city model, based upon the concepts of an open, plural, inclusive, transparent and participative government at the service of its citizens, can be used in order to support the creation of other models in other cities.

Thus, international cooperation will expand to Latin America and the Mediterranean. At the same time, however, the city does not forget other zones living in conflict and, on the one hand, destines part of the efforts to Kosovo, whereby a macro-cooperation project called “Barcelona Team”, encompassing a whole set of activities and projects which lessen the effects of the war conflict, is carried out through the offices of Tirana and Pristina. Whilst on the other hand, it starts the process of collaboration with Palestine.