Vesna Teršelič (born in 1962)[1] is a peace activist who founded the Anti-War Campaign of Croatia. In 1998, she was joint recipient of the Right Livelihood Award along with Katarina Kruhonja of the Centre for Peace, Non-violence and Human Rights, Osijek.[2]
Vesna Teršelič | |
|---|---|
 Vesna Teršelič at a press conference. Belgrade. May 23, 2018 | |
| Member of the Regional Council of the RECOM Reconciliation Network for Croatia | |
| Assumed office 2014 | |
| Leader | Nataša Kandić |
| Preceded by | Position created |
| 1st Executive Director of the Documenta - Center for Dealing with the Past | |
| Assumed office 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Position created |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Ljubljana, PR Slovenia, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Residence(s) | Zagreb, Croatia |
| Occupation | Peace activist |
Biography
editTeršelič, an ethnic Slovene born in Ljubljana,[3] lives in Zagreb, where she works as a peace activist.
Vesna Teršelič, together with other her friends, organized the Croatian Anti-War Campaign in 1991 to prevent war conflicts on the territories of the former Yugoslavia. As Teršelič said: "We initiated the anti-war [campaign] on July 4, 1991, which means that we did it too late, because the whole previous year... passed in hope that surely the politicians were doing something in order to reach an agreement in a diplomatic way, reaching a new form of arrangement between Croats and Serbs in Croatia." They also launched the magazine Arkzin in September 1991 to campaign for peace and research war conflict aspects.[4]
She became director of Documenta - Center for Dealing with the Past.[5]
In 2017, Teršelič signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.[6]
References
edit- ^ Medienhilfe Ex-Jugoslawien. Professionelle Solidarität gegen Nationalismus und Chauvinismus. Professional solidarity against nationalism and chauvinism: Vesna Teršelič
- ^ "Vesna Terselic". The Right Livelihood Award. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
- ^ edin.dji (2012-05-23). "Izložba o poznatim zagrebačkim Slovencima". Slovenski dom i Vijeće slovenske nacionalne manjine Grada Zagreba (in Croatian). Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ^ Milekic, Sven (August 18, 2015). "Promoting Peace in a Country at War". balkaninsight.com. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
- ^ "Organisational Structure". Documenta. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ^ Derk, Denis (28 March 2017). "Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca" [A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear]. Večernji List (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Večernji list. pp. 6–7. ISSN 0350-5006. Archived from the original on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
External links
edit- (in Croatian) "Vježbanje nasilja, vježbanje samouništenja" — an interview with Vesna Teršelič in Zarez 66