Srđan Dvornik

Srđan Dvornik was born in 1953 in Šibenik. By vocation he is a professor of philosophy and sociology. During his studies in Zagreb he became politically engaged within the framework of the Association of the Faculty of Philosophy Students. He participated in the founding of the Association for Yugoslav Democratic Initiative and later the founding of the Anti-War Campaign. He was particularly engaged with questions relating to conscientious objection and evictions. At the beginning of the 1990s he worked in publishing as an editor. In 1994 he started working as the Executive Director of the Open Society Institute. From 1999 to 2004 he worked at the Heinrich Böll Foundation and later at the Croatian Helsinki Committee. In 2008, after leaving the Croatian Helsinki Committee, he started working as a translator and private consultant. Common to all his work is an obvious devotion to the democratisation of society and the protection of human rights.