Vesna Pešić
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Vesna Pešić Весна Пешић PhD |
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Vesna Pešić in 2010
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| Member of Parliament | |
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In office 2007–2012 |
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| Yugoslav Ambassador to Mexico | |
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In office 2001–2005 |
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| Party founder and Leader of Civic Alliance of Serbia | |
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In office 1992–1999 |
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| Succeeded by | Goran Svilanović |
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| Born |
May 6, 1940 Grocka, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Political party |
Civic Alliance of Serbia (1992–1999) Liberal Democratic Party (2007–2011) |
| Residence | Belgrade, Serbia |
| Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
Vesna Pešić (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Пешић, pronounced [ʋêsna pêʃit͜ɕ]) (born May 6, 1940 in Grocka, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a Serbian politician and sociologist, one of the leaders of opposition movement in Serbia.
In February 2012, Vesna Pešić announced she would leave active politics after parliamentary elections on 6 May 2012.
In the early 1970s Pešić became the member of the Intellectuals' Movement for the Defense and Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms, popularly known as the “Belgrade opposition”. In 1982, she was arrested and imprisoned for organizing the protests against the arrest of a group of the University of Belgrade students.
Pešić was a founder member of the Yugoslav Helsinki Committee (1985), the Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative (1989), the Yugoslav European Movement (1991) and the Centre for Antiwar Action (1991). From 1992 till 1999 she was the president of the Civic Alliance of Serbia, and from 1993 until 1997 she was one of the leaders of the Coalition Zajedno (Together), with Vuk Drašković's Serbian Renewal Movement and Zoran Đinđić's Democratic Party.
It is worth a mention that Centre for Antiwar Action is organization largely supported by the National Endowment for Democracy, United States government institution.
Her many honors include the Award for Democracy of the U.S. National Foundation for Democracy (1993), the W. Averell Harriman Award of the U.S. National Institute for Democracy (1997) from Washington, D.C., United States and the Andrei Sakharov Award from the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Sakharov Foundation for Freedom (1997). She is praised as '"contributor in developing democracy and civil society"' from Institute of Peace, founded by United States Congress.
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