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USIP ProjectsAs the Balkans head toward their European destiny, USIP's Balkans Initiative aims to help bring real peace to Bosnia and help devise a stable solution on the status of Kosovo, as well as derive lessons learned from the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) as it draws to a conclusion. From USIP PressApril 1996 | Peaceworks No. 8 Serbian Nationalism and the Origins of the Yugoslav CrisisVesna Pesic About the Author
Pesic founded the Center for Antiwar Action, the first peace organization in Serbia, and is a founding member of the Association for a Yugoslav Democratic Initiative. Her efforts were recognized by the National Endowment for Democracy, which awarded her its biennial award for democracy. She is also active in human rights advocacy and was a founding member of the Belgrade Helsinki Committee. In 1990, she was part of a research team investigating human rights violations in Kosovo. Pesic received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Belgrade. See our complete list of reports.  |
Vesna Pesic, one of three leaders of the opposition movement in Belgrade
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