UDIK Udruženje za društvena istraživanja i komunikacije
Edvin Kanka Ćudić (Brčko, December 31, 1988) is a human rights activist, journalist and martial artist.
He graduated in 2012 from the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Sarajevo, with a degree in Journalism. He defended his master’s thesis at the same faculty, Department of Political Science: International Relations and Diplomacy, in October 2018.
In October 2013, Ćudić founded the Association for Social Research and Communication (UDIK). In December 2019, at the Assembly of the RECOM Reconciliation Network (RMP) held in Zagreb he was elected as a member of the Regional Council from Bosnia and Herzegovina. In February 2021, Ćudić was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Democracy and Transitional Justice (CDTJ) from Banja Luka. Since December 2024, he has been an international consultant from Bosnia and Herzegovina for the International Committee for Morita Therapy (ICMT), a section of the Japanese Society for Morita Therapy (JSMT) in Tokyo.
He is a master of aikido, jujutsu and judo. He is a member of the Aikikai Foundation in Tokyoand the Aikikai Serbia – Society of Traditional Japanese Culture in Belgrade.
His main fields of activity are human rights, dealing with the past, peacebuilding, minorities, democracy and the Holocaust. His works have been published in newspapers and magazines such as Monitor (Podgorica), Danas (Belgrade) and Oslobođenje (Sarajevo). He won the International Journalist Award Kemal Kurspahić for the story Grobnica nade (Grave of Hope).