Vesna Teršelič

Vesna Teršelič is a Slovene-born Croatian peace activist who founded the Anti-War Campaign of Croatia. Since 2004 she has been the coordinator of Documenta - Center for Dealing with the Past.

Biography

Teršelič, an ethnic Slovene born in Ljubljana, 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 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.
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.
In 2004 she became coordinator of Documenta - Center for Dealing with the Past. She is one of the founders of the
Initiative for RECOM, a member of the Regional Council of the RECOM Reconciliation Network from Croatia. In 2017, Teršelič signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.