PERSONAL
Born in Belgrade in 1992., graduated from the First Belgrade Gymnasium, and studied at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Before joining BIRN (Balkan Research Network) in 2019. I was a member of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights for three years, where I mainly dealt with transitional justice and democratic issues. Prior to the Initiative, I was an activist, lecturing at various youth human rights schools and exchange programs related to reconciliation. I am the "Icebreaker" award winner presented by The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 2018, and BeFem in 2020.
Languages
- Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian: Native
- English: C1 level
- Russian: A1 level
- Spanish : A1 level
- Albanian : A1 level
Interests
Education and training
BA in Law Studies
Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, Serbia 2010 – 2019Program: This is Kosovo
Youth Initiative for Human Rights, Belgrade, SerbiaStudent visit to Kosovo insitutions
01/2015 – 01/2015Human Rights Defenders
Youth Initiative for Human Rights, Belgrade, Serbia 05/2015”One million bones”
Post-conflict Research Center, Bosnia and HerzegovinaLarge-scale social arts practice which combines education, hands-on art making, and public installations to raise awareness of ongoing genocides and mass atrocities.
07/2015Justice without reconciliation? War crimes and trials in Europe since 1945
OFAJ program - The Franco-German Youth Office, exchange programmeThe overall aim of the program was to explore and discuss the question of war crimes and war crime trials in four countries (France, Germany, Serbia, Kosovo) especially their role in post-warreconciliation processes. The Program was consisted of three phases, the first part has been held in Dachau (Germany) and The Hague (Netherlands). It will dealt with the topics of crimes committed by the German National Socialists during World War II and their impact on societies; the development of international and national criminal law; the establishment and the role of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for the reconciliation in the South Eastern Europe. The second phase of project was held in France in March 2016 and the third phase in Serbia and Kosovo, November 2016.
11/2015 - 11/2016Transitional Justice School
Humanitarian Law Center - HLC, Belgrade, Serbia 03/2016 – 05/2016ODIHR Training on Human Rights Monitoring and Safety and Security
ODIHR - The Office for Democratic Insitutions and Human Rights, Warsaw Budva, Montenegro 10/2016Peace and Conflict Summer Program 2017
RIT Kosovo™ (A.U.K) - Rochester Institute of Technology, Kosovo Prishtina, Kosovo 06/2017 – 07/2017Training in Project Managment
Balkan Investigative Regional Reporting Network Tirana, Albania 10/2020Work experience
Program coordinator (Transitional Justice and Human Rights)
Youth Initiative for Human Rights, YIHR Serbia, Belgrade (Serbia) 01/09/2016 – 31/012019The Youth Initiative for Human Rights is a regional network of non-governmental organizations with programs on the territories of Serbia, Kosovo, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Youth Initiative for Human Rights promotes the truth, justice, responsibility and equality as the basic Projects: Regional Exchange Programs (2015-2019), RECOM Campaign (2017), Organisation of Zagreb Youth Summit (2017), Coordination Political Youth Network, PYN, (2017-2018), Miredita, Dobar dan Festival (2017-2019), World Youth Movement for Democracy (2018) Tasks: Implementation of project activities, project management, writing project proposals and project reports, coordination of activists’’ network, writing public statements, writing policy papers, communication with political parties and public institutions, meetings with states’ representatives
Coordinator of Human Rights Monitoring Programme, BIRN Hub
Balkan Investigative Regional Reporting Network, Office in Belgrade 01/02/2019 – PresentCoordinating projects dealing with the monitoring of human rights such as: Resonant Voices Initiative and Digital Rights Monitoring within BIRN’s Investigative Resource Desk – BIRD. Assisting in creation, launching and content publishing of Reporting Democracy platform.