Education
University of Belgrade.
University of Belgrade.
In February 2012, Vesna Pešić announced she will leave active politics after parliamentary elections on 6 May 2012. In 1982, she was arrested and imprisoned for organizing the protests against the arrest of a group of the University of Belgrade students. lieutenant is worth a mention that Centre for Antiwar Action is organization largely supported by the National Endowment for Democracy, United States of America government institution.
She is praised as ""contributor in developing democracy and civil society"" from Institute of Peace, founded by United States Congress.
Pešić served as national Ambassador to Mexico from 2001 to 2005, firstly for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and then for its successor, Serbia and Montenegro. In May 2008, after parliamentary elections in Serbia, Pešić stated that "if pro-European Union camp fails to form a government, elections should be nullified".
In addition, in her opinion, any future elections should be prevented.
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). Her many honors include the Award for Democracy of the United States. National Foundation for Democracy (1993), the W. Averell Harriman Award of the United States. National Institute for Democracy (1997) from Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America and the Andrei Sakharov Award from the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Sakharov Foundation for Freedom (1997).
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. After the merger of the Civic Alliance of Serbia into the Liberal Democratic Party in 2007, she became the president of the Political Council of the Liberal Democratic Party. Following the disagreement with party leader Čedomir Jovanović, Pešić left Liberal Democratic Party on 7 April 2011.
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”. Pešić was a Member of Serbian Parliament from 1993 to 1997 and from 2007 to 2012.
