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Jasmin Mujanovic is a political scientist and policy specialist of southeast European and international affairs with a PhD from York University in Toronto. His career background is a unique blend of global academic and professional engagement, as Jasmin has worked as a scholar, policy analyst, consultant, researcher, and writer in both North America and Europe.
His academic research concentrates primarily on the politics of contemporary southeastern Europe, with a particular focus on the politics of the non-EU states of the Western Balkans. More broadly, my academic fields of interest and expertise are split between international relations, global political economy, and political theory. He is interested in democratization processes, state development (including the process of state and regime failure), and post-conflict and peace studies, in particular as these topics relate to southeastern and eastern Europe.
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Dr. Siniša Vuković is Senior Lecturer of Conflict Management and Global Policy, and the Director of the Master of Arts in Global Policy Program (MAGP). Previously, he was the Associate Director of the Conflict Management Program (2018-2021). His research focuses on various forms of international conflict resolution, negotiation and mediation. He has published in a range of scholarly journals such as Journal of Peace Research, Cooperation and Conflict, Global Policy, The Washington Quarterly, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Swiss Political Science Review, Millennium Journal of International Studies, International Journal of Conflict Management, International Negotiation, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, and Ethnopolitics, policy-relevant outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, European Council on Foreign Relations, World Economic Forum, Sustainable Security, and Policy Forum, and contributed to several edited volumes with book chapters. His is the author of International Multiparty Mediation and Conflict Management (Routledge, 2017), and Rethinking Conflict Management and Resolution (with I. William Zartman; Edward Elgar, 2023), and the co-editor of Revisiting the Ripeness Debate (with Tetsuro Iji; Routledge, 2022). His current book projects include: The International Negotiation Process (with P. Terrence Hopmann), and The Research Handbook on the Politics of International Agreements (with P. Terrence Hopmann, Edward Elgar, 2024). He has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses related to the field of conflict management, with a particular focus on the process of negotiation and mediation. He is also a visiting professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, and at the Amsterdam University College, University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD in International Relations and Conflict Resolution at Leiden University, an MA in International Relations and Diplomacy from Leiden University and The Netherlands Institute of International Relations “Clingendael”, and a BA (laurea) in Political Science from University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He is the recipient of many research grants, including “Rubicon” from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and Gerda Henkel Foundation research grant.
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Born on November 9, 1961, Ph. D., Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Kansas, USA. Director, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Kansas. He has held several administrative positions at the University of Kansas, including Acting Associate Dean for Humanities (2012), Chair-Receiver for the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures and is currently the founding Director, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Kansas (2014–2020). He has held numerous prestigious fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, US Department of Education, the Swiss Science Foundation, and the Moravian-Silesian Regional Research Fund. In 2017 he was elected to the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts as a Corresponding Member and in 2019 elected as the first non-Slovene Ambassador of Science and Scholarship of the Republic of Slovenia.
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Dr František Šístek holds a doctoral degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Charles University, Prague (2007), where he worked on the topic of Our Brothers in the South: The Image of Montenegro and the Montenegrins in Czech Society, 1830-2006. He received his MA degree from the Faculty of History, entral European University, Budapest (2001), and complemented his studies with an interest in literature and poetry. He is the bearer of the Šrámkova Sobotka Award for Young Poetry Writers (1st prize) and Šrámkova Sobotka Award for Young Short Story Writers (1st prize) for 1998 and 1999, respectively. is Černá Hora /Montenegro – A Short History (Praha: Libri, 2007) was granted the Miroslav Ivanov Award for Non-Fiction at the Prague Book Fair and riter´s Festival (April 2008).
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Markéta Slavková, Ph.D. is a Project Coordinator at PSSI Regional Security Program. She specializes in the discipline of sociocultural anthropology with a focus on topics of food, war, nationalism, transnationalism and identity. In her doctoral studies she carried out a long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Vesna Pusić (Zagreb, 1953) is Croatian journalist, publicist, former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, and university professor. Pusić is considered one of the key figures responsible for Croatia's integration into European Union and one of the most influential Croatian politicians overall.
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Roman Jakič (Ljubljana, 1967) is a Slovenian politician. He was a member of the European Parliament and Minister of Defence of Slovenia. He is one of the most influential politicians in the region and a very knowledgeable expert on the Western Balkans. He is the President of the LIBSEEN network of liberals in Southeast Europe.
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Dinko Gruhonjić (Banja Luka, 1970) is a Yugoslav, Bosnian-Herzegovinian, and Serbian journalist, professor at the University of Novi Sad, Editor-in-Chief of the Vojvodina Research and Analytical Center (VOICE), Program Director and former President of the Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (2004 - 2016), as well as head of the Beta News Agency office for Vojvodina.
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Milivoj Bešlin is a Serbian historian and senior research associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. He published a two-volume monograph The Idea of Modern Serbia in Socialist Yugoslavia, as well as dozens of expert studies, articles, discussions, and reviews in domestic and international scientific journals and collections.
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Ahmet Shala is a Global Ambassador and a professor at James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA, USA). He served as the Minister of Finance of Kosovo and the Ambassador of Kosovo to Japan. He is one of the most influential Kosovar politicians in the process of gaining independence.
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Emina is first year doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Social Science at the University of Warsaw. She is clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with ten years of work experience at the Institute for Psychological and Social Protection, University Clinical Center Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina). She also holds degrees in Public Health Comparative Effectiveness Research (University Paris Descartes) and Health Sciences (Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, the Netherlands). Her Ph.D. project focuses on the intergenerational transmission of memory within families of those who lived through the 1992-1996 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Currently, Emina is Fulbright visiting student at Syracuse University (New York, USA).
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Haris Imamović is editor of the literary magazine Sic. During the term 2018-2022, he worked as an advisor to member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Šefik Džaferović and was a member of the Organizing Committee for the Commemoration of Srebrenica Genocide. He is the author of the novel Vedran and the Firefighters. He publishes political analyses on the Istraga portal.
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Lejla Salihagić Batrićević (1996) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Montenegrin civil activist. She holds a Master's degree in forensic genetics and anthropology from the Faculty of Science at Charles University in Prague. She was part of the team responsible for revision and identification of unidentified mortal remains of victims from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP). She is currently specializing in the field of cognitive warfare. She speaks Czech, English, and German.
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Adnan Čirgić (Podgorica, 1980) is a Montenegrin philologist and civic activist. He is the author of the first Orthography of the Montenegrin Language and has written over 20 monographs on topics such as linguistics, dialectology, ethnology, and traditional culture. He has received the highest state honors. He is the vice-dean of the Faculty of Montenegrin Language and Literature and a member of the Board of the Montenegrin PEN Center.
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Jovan Ulićević (Podgorica, 1991) is an activist from Montenegro. He graduated from the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Podgorica, where he specialized in ecology. He is currently a 3rd year student of Diplomacy and International Relations at the Humanities Studies, University of Donja Gorica in Podgorica. The topics he actively deals with are anti-fascism, decoloniality, queer activism and feminism. He is the founder of several queer feminist organizations, such as Spektra, Trans Mreža Balkan and LGBTIQ Association of Queer Montenegro. He also works as an executive director in the Spektra and Trans Mreža Balkan.
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Aleksandar Radoman (Podgorica, 1981) is a Montenegrin literary historian, professor, and dean of the Faculty of Montenegrin Language and Literature as well as a civic activist. He regularly writes political analyses and comments on the regional political scene. He is one of the most influential literary theorists and humanities experts in the country.
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Biljana Jovićević (1972) began as a journalist covering the foreign policy in the Public broadcaster Radio Montenegro in 1998 (RTCG), where she worked as a reporter, anchor and news editor for three years. In 2001, she moved to the USc international broadcaster Radio Free Europe (RFE/RL), where she worked for 18 years in Podgorica and Prague, respectively. During her post in RFE/RL, Biljana covered and researched the topics from domestic and regional politics, war crimes, reconciliation, as well as the events on the global stage and their impacts, both on the region and on the international order. Biljana is currently engaged in civil activism in the German humanitarian organization Help Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe, and she writes analyses and articles on foreign policy for online news portal Antena M. She occasionally participates in various programs for other media outlets as a commentator of current foreign, regional and domestic political situation, and as opinion maker in the various panels and debates.
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Andrej Nikolaidis (Sarajevo, 1974) is a Montenegrin and Bosnian-Herzegovinian writer, journalist, civil activist, and political advisor. He has received prestigious international and regional awards. In 2011, he won the European Union Prize for Literature, and in 2024, he received the English PEN Center award for the best translated novel in English language.
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Milan Marković (Danilovgrad, 1986) is a professor and vice-dean for international cooperation at the Faculty for Montenegrin Language and Literature. He is one of the leading intellectuals of the younger generation in the field of studying literary theory, discourse analysis and postcolonial criticism. He is the recipient of the Fulbright scholarship, which he completed at the University of Pittsburgh.