Stasa Zajovic, Stanislava

Coordinator for Many Causes

Staşa Zajović is the author of numerous articles, essays, and papers in local, regional, and international media and various other publications on women and war, politics, reproductive rights, nationalism, and antimilitarism. Throughout the years, she has organized many educational activities focused on women's human rights, women's peace politics, interethnic and intercultural solidarity, women and power, and women and antimilitarism. She is the initiator and coordinator of various educational programs, such as the Traveling Women's Peace Workshops on Power and Otherness Education for Democracy, Law in our Everyday Life (Street Law), and Transitional Justice-A Feminist Approach. She initiated several women's network groups, such as the Women's Peace Network, The Coalition for a Secular State, The International Network of Women's Solidarity against War/International Women in Black Network, and the Network of Conscientious Objectors and Anti-militarism in Serbia. Her guiding principles are the need for truth and justice for crimes committed in “our name” and solidarity with people around the world who are interested in promoting nonviolence, civil society, and peace. She supports and encourages civil disobedience as a core human right and freedom and believes that justice is “too important to be left to politicians because it depends on each of us.” Staşa Zajović is also dedicated to building a culture of responsibility for war, and punishment of war crimes is one of her core aims. She wants to see the government in Serbia be held responsible for its actions and accountable to its people. Together with Women in Black, Staşa Zajović is constantly under threat and is often attacked by the hooligans and extreme nationalists in her country.

Staşa Zajović has been nominated for and won a range of prizes and awards. Among these are the Millennium Peace Prize, Honorary Citizenship of Tutin, and nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize as part of the 1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize campaign in 2005.

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