Zdravko Grebo (30 July 1947 – 29 January 2019) was a Bosnian law professor at the

University of Sarajevo The University of Sarajevo ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Univerzitet u Sarajevu'' / Sveučilište u Sarajevu / Универзитет у Сарајеву) is a public university located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the largest ...

's Law School. He was born in 1947 in

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. Zdravko is the founder of Open Society Foundation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (

Soros Foundation Open Society Foundations (OSF), formerly the Open Society Institute, is a grantmaking network founded and chaired by business magnate George Soros. Open Society Foundations financially supports civil society groups around the world, with a st ...

) as well as the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies of the University of Sarajevo. He also serves as the chief of the Department of the State and International Public Law. In addition to these, he is the founder of the Helsinki Parliament of Citizens (Bosnia & Herzegovina) as well as author of four books and 150 articles. In 1993, Grebo received an award from the European Rectors Club “For peace, and against racism and xenophobia”, and in 1994 he was honored with The Franklin Four Freedoms Award-medal for work in the field of “freedom from fear”. Since 2011, he was a public advocate of RECOM in

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. In 2017, he signed the

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of the

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, Bosniaks and

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. Grebo graduated from the Sarajevo Law School in 1970 and attended the postgraduate course at the Department of Legal Theory of the

Belgrade Law School The Faculty of Law of the University in Belgrade ( sr, Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду/''Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu''), also known as the Belgrade Law School, is one of the first-tier educatio ...

where in 1976 he earned his PhD. From 1972, he lectured at the Sarajevo Law School and became a professor in January 1991. Grebo published and edited books "Kelsen and Marx," "Foundations of Legal System of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia," and "The Philosophy of Law."

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