Katarina
Kruhonja is a Croatian physician, specializing in nuclear medicine, and Director
of the Centre for Peace, Non-violence and Human Rights in Osijek, Croatia. The
Centre, which she helped cofound in 1992, works to promote peace education by
organizing seminars and workshops for teachers and students; advocates for human
rights; and conducts post-war peacebuilding, including psychological counseling
for those who lived through the conflicts that tore apart the Balkans and for
those refugees who have returned to their homeland after the war's end.
In 1998, Katarina Kruhonja and Vesna Terselic, founder of the Croatian Anti-War
Campaign, shared the Right Livelihood Award (often called the Alternative Nobel
Prize) "...for their dedication to a long-term process of peace-building
and reconciliation in the Balkans."
