Causes of World War I corrective." British Diplomat Arthur Nicolson wrote in May 1914, “Since I have been at the Foreign Office I have not seen such calm waters.” On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead, by two gun shots in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak) coordinated by Danilo Ilić, a Bosnian Serb and a member of the Black Hand secret society. The assassination is significant because it was perceived by Austria-Hungary as an existential challenge
Serb Civic Council SGV was awarded the Right Livelihood Award. On 26 December 2002, the SGV received death threats from a Belgrade-based group calling itself "Gavrilo Princip" (assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria). The group is believed to be a branch of the Chetnik Ravna Gora Movement. Mirko Pejanović, President of the SCC later met with the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, in Sarajevo. The discussion included the implementation of the Constitutional Court's decision on the constituency of Bosnia and Herzegovina's people, return, and the threats made against the SCC members and their families. At some point during the 2000s, the SGV modified