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Ildiko Erdei (Kovin, Vojvodina, 2. October 1965), is an antiwar activist, feminist, and a professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.

She held numerous lectures at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade and the Center for Women's Studies at the same faculty, the Faculty of Humanities in Koper in Slovenia, the Petnica Science Center, and as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

Her fields of study and research range from the anthropology of consumption, the study of material culture, and the cultural economy of socialism and post-socialism to gender studies.

As a response to the increasing nationalistic aspirations of the state and local authorities, the beginning of war in the former Yugoslavia, and great media censorship, in the specific multi-ethnic and multi-cultural Pančevo, in 1991, the Pančevo Peace Movement began to operate. Ildiko immediately joined them and remained active until 1995. She participated in many conferences, round tables, and performative street acts together with Women in Black Network, Center for Antiwar Action and Crepaja For Peace movement.

She wrote for left-wing magazines Republika, Pančevac , Contra Bellum and Pacifik.

Ildiko founded the Pančevo Women's Peace Group in the year 2000 as a contribution to the continuous women's struggle for peace and coexistence with different nationalities, religions, and cultures, dating from socialist Yugoslavia. She believes that cultural and political education are necessary to fight against autocracy and nationalist policies left by the Slobodan Milošević regime, but also that education in peace and democracy studies is a prerequisite for fundamental changes in society. The feminist political theory clearly fits into the creation of this kind of peace organization and its program through its continuous work on bringing women out of the patriarchal model of ownership over their bodies, emotions, rights, and competencies. She recognized this struggle as necessary in the social and political climate where patriarchal politics threaten the freedoms and rights of women.