April/May 2005
Vol. XI, No. 1

Stojan Cerovic Remembered

Former senior fellow Stojan Cerovic died in late March in Paris after a long illness. A psychologist by training, a journalist by choice, and a democracy ­advocate in Belgrade by fate, Stojan was cofounder and first president of the Center for Antiwar Action, an anti-nationalist NGO (and USIP grantee) that opposed Milosevic’s wars against other former Yugoslav republics. Stojan was a senior fellow at the Institute in 2000, when he wrote a special report on “Serbia and Montenegro: Reintegration, Divorce, or Something Else?,” published in April 2001. Ever the voice of reason, he returned to Belgrade after his fellowship to continue his journalism career and also to help with the transformation of Serbia’s institutions to a democratic system. Said Dan Serwer, then-director of the Balkan Initiative at the Institute, “We’ll miss his sharp critical mind and his commitment to making the world a more decent place.”