Governing board

The Governing Board is the executive body of the Centre. It is responsible for the implementation of the Objectives of the Centre, as established by the Statutes and the decisions of the Assembly. The Governing Board has 5 members who are elected and recalled by the Assembly. The term of the members of the Governing Board is 4 years. They can be re-elected to the same position.

Members of the Governing Board are:

dr Vesna Pešić

Dr Vesna Pešić, sociologist. She was a senior science associate at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory. She is the founder of numerous peace and human rights organizations, including, in 1991, the Centre for Antiwar Action – the first antiwar organization in Serbia. She has resided at the United States Institute of Peace, founded by the US Congress in recognition of contribution to the development of democracy and civil society. 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., the Andrei Sakharov Award from the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Sakharov Foundation for Freedom (1997) and the City of Esslingen Human Rights Prize for political courage and sincerity (2001). She is praised as ‘”contributor in developing democracy and civil society”‘ from Institute of Peace, founded by United States Congress. In 1997, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was the President of the Civic Alliance of Serbia from 1992 to 1998, one of the leaders of the democratic coalition ‘Together’ and a member of parliament from 1993 to 1997. She has published many scientific works and has taken part in numerous scientific events in the fields of sociology, democracy and human rights in Serbia and abroad.

Miloš Stojković

Miloš Stojković, lawyer, graduated from the Law School Belgrade University in 2007. Passed bar exam and admitted to the Belgrade Bar Chamber in 2015. Expert in the field of media, telecommunications, personal data protection, copy rights and advertising. From 2008-2012, stint with the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society, where he was a Legal advisor and a Head of regulatory department in the Sector for electronic communications. Participated in a number of working groups drafting laws and regulations in the field of media, telecommunications and advertising. External consultant of SHARE foundation. Member of the legal team of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM).

dr Vesna Petrović

Dr Vesna Petrović received her Bachelors degree in 1978 and her Masters degree in 1988 from the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Law. She received her Doctoral degree from the Law Faculty at Union University. She passed the judicial exam in 1982. In addition to her regular work in the Archives of Serbia and teaching in the field of archivist work, she also became engaged early on in human rights protection with the Yugoslav Forum for Human Rights, the first organization of its kind in Yugoslavia. She was active with the Centre for Anti-War action, where she spent several years leading a helpline for human rights victims. From 2001 to 2004, she held the position of Chief Cabinet Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro. As one of the founders of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, she has represented the Centre in numerous international gatherings, and has edited several books on human rights.

Jelena Pejić

Jelena Pejić is an IHL expert and former long-time Senior Legal Adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. In over twenty years with the ICRC, Jelena was responsible for the organization’s legal and policy work on a range of IHL issues including IHL and the “war on terrorism”, the protection of persons deprived of liberty in armed conflict, direct participation in hostilities, the interplay between IHL and human rights law, non-State armed groups and investigations in armed conflict. She led an eight-year joint project of the International Committee and the Swiss Government focused on strengthening compliance with IHL. She conceptualized and was editor of the ICRC’s public quadrennial reports on “IHL and the Challenges of Contemporary Armed Conflicts” (2003-2015). Prior to joining the ICRC, she headed the International Justice Program at Human Rights First in New York and was a lecturer in International Law at Belgrade Law School. Jelena Pejić is both a practitioner and scholar of international humanitarian law. She is acknowledged to be a leading authority in her fields and has written and presented extensively on various issues of IHL, human rights and criminal law to governments, experts and academic circles throughout the world.

Marko Milanović

Prof. Dr. Marko Milanović is a professor of international law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Reading (Great Britain). He was previously professor of international law at the University of Nottingham, where he was also co-director of the Centre for Human Rights. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, received his master’s degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Michigan, and received his PhD from the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge. He is a member of the Editorial board of the European Journal of International Law  and co-editor of its blog, EJIL: Talk. He is also the co-editor of the Tallinn Manual 3.0 project on the application of international law in cyberspace. He was the vice-president of the European Association for International Law, and a visiting professor at the universities of Michigan, Columbia, the Philippines, Deakin, and the Geneva Academy for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He worked as an expert associate of Judge Thomas Buergenthal at the International Court of Justice, 2006/2007. Milanovic professional work is published in the world’s leading scientific journals; his articles were cited, among others, by judges of the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the UN International Law Commission. He served also as a legal representative or advisor for the parties in cases before the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Serbia.

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Analiza kapaciteta službi za pomoć i podršku žrtvama i svedocima krivičnih dela u Srbiji: izazovi i preporuke

Autor: Goran Sandić Stručna recezentkinja: Radmila Dragičević Dičić

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Poštovanje zabrane vraćanja (principa non-refoulement) u postupcima izručenja u Srbiji od 2017. do 2021. godine

Autori: Vladica Ilić, Sanja Radivojević, Petar Vidosavljević

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