Goran Božićević
Goran Božičević was born in 1962 in Zadar. His father was a highly positioned officer in the Yugoslav National Army. When he was in his fourth year of high school his family moved to Zagreb where Goran started studying physics at the Faculty of Science. From very early on he was interested in politics and following his idealistic convictions he became a member of the League of Communists. At the beginning of the war in Croatia he got involved in the peace movement. He is one of the founders of the Pakrac Volunteer Project and he spent a large part of the war in Croatia in the Pakrac area, working towards the normalisation of relations between the warring sides. After the war he founded the Miramida Centre and continued with activities concerning social reconstruction and peace-building all over the former Yugoslavia. Today he is involved in peace activities through education and developing dialogue in the area of the former Yugoslavia