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Sonja Prodanovic is a Yugoslav architect, ecologist, and antiwar activist. She was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and gained her master's degree from U.C.L.

Sonja is active in FENS (Federation of NGOs in Serbia), European Movement Serbia, European ECO Forum , and she is the President of the EcoForum workshop.

She was one of the first members of the Center for Antiwar Action and she participated in international conferences and round tables organized by the Women in Black Network.

She was active in the "Belgrade Anti-War Marathon" where she met Natasa Kandic, Nebojsa Popov, and Srdja Popovic.

Sonja made her first move as an antiwar activist in protest of support for the citizens of Dubrovnik on October 5, 1991. Students from the Faculty of Philosophy at Belgrade University signed the petition to deblock water and gas supplies to the citizens of Dubrovnik during this protest. Together with Neda Bozinovic and Marinka Romanov Areri, Sonja delivered the petition to the Serbian General Staff building.

She was the first to arrive in a refugee camp in Krnjača by request of Sojna Liht and later continued to coordinate the work of nine refugee camps on the territory of Belgrade county.