Arcadi Oliveres

Arcadi Oliveres i Boadella (27 November 1945[1] – 6 April 2021) was a Spanish economist, academic, and social activist.

[2][3] He was president of "Justícia i Pau", a Christian peace group in Catalonia, and helped to promote its war tax resistance campaign.

In 1974 he began to participate in the international Catholic organization Pax Christi, dedicated to the promotion of peace and reconciliation among peoples.

In 1981 he joined the Associació Justícia i Pau de Barcelona, dedicated to the promotion of human rights and peace, an organization he chaired from 2001 until April 2014.

In 2013 he created, together with Teresa Forcades, a popular platform for the independence of Catalonia called Procés Constituent and to run in the Catalan elections.