Mirsad "Miki" Jacevic
Bosnia Program Director

Miki is a human rights activist and peace program specialist from Sarajevo, Bosnia Hercegovina. He is a co-founder of Global Youth Connect and organized GYC’s first delegation to Bosnia in the summer of 2006. In addition, Miki works full-time as a senior policy officer at Women Waging Peace where he oversees policy efforts aimed at including women in formal and informal peace processes. Before the war in Bosnia, Miki headed the UN Youth Chapter and was president of the local committee of AIESEC, the largest student association in the world. During the war, he was involved in numerous projects to ease the suffering of youth and the elderly. In 1994, he founded and directed Collegium Bosniacum, an organization of Bosnian students in Europe. Out of that work grew the initiative, Academic Lifeline for Bosnia Hercegovina, which aimed at rebuilding the country's academic institutions. In 1995, Miki headed the Vienna office of the World University Service, dealing with education issues in troubled regions. During this time, he also lived and worked in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Palestine, and Central American countries. Miki has consulted with many conflict resolution organizations, including Search for Common Ground, where he led efforts to develop child soldiers programs. He has led several delegations of international activists and conflict resolution practitioners to various post-conflict settings, including the Balkans, Northern Ireland, South Africa and Guatemala. He has served on the Board of Directors of several organizations, including the KARUNA Center for Peacebuilding, Global Youth Action, Sustaining the Soul that Serves, State of the World Forum, and others. He has been honored with numerous awards, including the Fetzer Institute Fellowship, Rotary International Scholarship, Soros Foundation Scholarship, State of the World Forum ChangeMaker award 1999, and honorary President of the Bosnian Student Union. Miki holds a Master of Science degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University. He teaches in the Conflict Transformation Across Cultures Program, (CONTACT) Summer Peace building Institute at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont, and is an associate faculty member for the Trauma and Conflict Program at Prescott Collage in Arizona. He is married to Guatemalan human rights activist Eva Morales, and they live with their two children in the Washington, DC area.