CURRICULUM VITAE

SNJEZANA MRŠE, MA

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH
October 11, 1959, Zadar, Croatia.

EDUCATION

• 1994 MA in Peace Studies, The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, US)
  
• 1900 BA in Psychology, Department of Psychology (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• 2001 - Program Manager, Group MOST (Belgrade)
  
• 1999 - 2000 Project Co-Director and consultant for W. Balkans NGO sector, Danish Center for Conflict Resolution (Copenhagen, Denmark)
  
• 1995 - 1999 Project Coordinator, Group MOST / Center for Antiwar Action (CAA, Belgrade)
  
• 1992 - 1993 Research assistant of Developmental Psychology at the Institute for Psychology (faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT

• 2002 Periodical consultant on the "Education Improvement - School Development Plans", Serbian Ministry of Education and Sports
  
• 2001 Consultant on the project "Roundtables about Reform", Serbian Ministry of Education and Sports
  
• 2000 Consultant on the "Montenegro Education Reform Project", Institute for Educational Policy, Open Society Institute, Budapest
  
• 2000-2001 Project co-director on the "Conflict Resolution, Empowerment and Reconciliation" (funded by FRESTA), at the Danish Center for Conflict Resolution, Copenhagen and Member of Group MOST Council
  
• 1999 Project coordinator on "Reviving NGO Network in Serbia and Montenegro" and consultant/trainer on the "Dharamsala Project", at the Danish Center for Conflict Resolution, Copenhagen
  
• 1995 -1999 Member of Executive Board of Group MOST / CAA (Belgrade), association for cooperation and mediation in conflict, and project coordinator on "Helping Youth to Understand the Kosovo Knot: Intercultural Dialogue" (1998-99), "Practicing Democracy: Constructive Debating Skills for Youth" (1997-98), "Fostering Civil Society: NGO Management and Cooperation" (1997) etc.
  
• 1993 Coordinator of the project of Institute of Psychology "Psycho-social support to children deprived by war" funded by UNICEF
  
• 1992 - Member of Serbian Psychological Association
  
• 1991 Research assistant on the project "Meta-cognition in School", Institute for Psychology (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)

AWARDS

1994 Award of Serbian Psychological Association for popularization of psychology "Žiža Vasic"

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
-Pesic, M., Popadic, D., Radulovic, D., Dejanovic, V., Kijevcanin, S., Krivacic, M. and Mrse, S. (2001): Civic Education: Teachers' manual for 1st grade of secondary school. Belgrade, Ministry of Education and Sports, Republic of Serbia (in Serbian)
-Mrse, S., Petrovic, D. at all (2001): Goodwill Classroom, volume 2: Workshops for primary school pupils (revised edition). Belgrade: Group MOST & UNICEF (in Serbian)
-Popadic, D., Mrse, S., Kovacs-Cerovic, T. & al. (1998): Yelding is not always wiser: a guide through conflicts to agreement. Belgrade: Center for Antiwar Action (in Serbian).
-Kovacs-Cerovic, T., Jankovic, S., Jerotijevic, M., Kecman, T., Kijevcanin, S., Krivacic, M. and Mrse, S. (1993, 1996): Cognition Through Games: educational workshops. Belgrade: UNHCR (in Serbian and English)

PRESENTER IN RECENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS

• National Seminar on Education for Democratic Citizenship. Organized by Serbian Ministry of Education and Sports, Council of Europe, UNESCO. Belgrade, 12-15. December 2001.
  
• QPSW Regional Consultation Meeting. Organized by Quaker Peace & Service Witness (UK). Osjek, October 5-7, 2001.
  
• Regional Gathering of Conflict Resolution Groups. Organized by Danish Center for Conflict Resolution and Group MOST. Ljuta/Montenegro, November 8-13, 2000.
  
• The National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution (NCPCR). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 23-27, 1997 and Phoenix, Arizona, May 28-31, 1999
  
• European Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution (ECPCR). Varna, Bulgaria, October 12-16, 1996 and Belfast, Northern Ireland, October 9-13, 1998
  
• Building Peace from the Roots - social reconstruction workshop. Trogen, Switzerland, October 27 - November 1, 1997

TRAINER / FACILITATOR IN RECENT SEMINARS

• Gender Equality - Training of trainers (Module II & III - Planning for Action & Training Skills). Organized by CARE International Yugoslavia. Belgrade, May 28 - Jun 2, 2002.
  
• Women Can Do It - Evaluation seminar. Organized by Norwegian People's Aid. Pristine/Kosovo, January 12-13, 2002.
  
• Women Can Do It - Training of trainers (Module III - Training Skills). Organized by Norwegian People's Aid. Belgrade, August 14-19, 2001; Pristine/Kosovo, September 27-30, 2001; Palic, February 21-14, 2002.
  
• Civic Education - Training of trainers. Organized by Serbian Ministry of Education and Sports. Belgrade, September 13-15, 2001.
  
• Roundtable about Reform - Training of facilitators. Organized by Serbian Ministry of Education and Sports. Zlatibor, October 16-20, 2001 and Zlatibor, October 29-31, 2001.
  
• South Eastern European Youth Network Meeting - capacity building seminar. Organized by MS (DK). Arhus, Denmark, December 12-15, 2000.
  
• Conflict Resolution for Religious People - training seminar. Organized by Center for Strategic International Studies (Washington, DC). Bogatic, Jun 13-15, 1998.
  
• The Goodwill Classroom - school program for constructive conflict resolution - Training of trainers. Organized by Group MOST. Pancevo, August 25-30, 1996; Pancevo, August 21-26, 1998;
  Budva/Montenegro, February 27-March 3, 1999.
  
• NGO Management and Cooperation. Organized by Group MOST. Belgrade, May 3-5, 1996; Nis, May 17-19, 1996; Pristine/Kosovo, May 24-26, 1996; Risan/Montenegro, May 31-Jun 1, 1996; Nis, May 15-17, 1997; Pozega Jun 13-15, 1997.
  
• Dialogue and negotiation -skills of dealing with problems. Organized by Group MOST. Becej, July 3-7, 1996; Kotor/Montenegro, September 25-29, 1996; Belgrade, March 13-16, 1997;
  Zrenjanin, 8-11 May 1997; Kragujevac, April 17-20, 1997; Nis, May 15-18, 1997; Jagodina, June 26-29, 1997; Sombor, 26 February - 1 March 1998.

LANGUAGES
English (fluently)

CONTACT ADDRESSES
E-mail: njeza@eunet.yu

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