Please join the Harriman Institute for the Annual Balkan Roundtable. Moderated by Tanya Domi.
Speakers
Agon Maliqi is a policy analyst, civil society activist and media writer from Prishtina, Kosovo. He is the creator and co-founding editor of sbunker.net, an opinions and analysis blog gathering a young generation of academics, think tankers and activists from Kosovo. Mr. Maliqi’s main writing interests include regional and international affairs, the state of human rights and democracy in the Balkans and socio-economic development in Kosovo. Professionally, Mr. Maliqi has during the past ten years worked as a development consultant and program manager for various international development organizations. Mr. Maliqi is a recent recipient of the 2018-2019 “Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship” awarded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). He graduated in Political Science and European Studies from the American University in Bulgaria in 2006, and obtained a Master’s Degree in International Development Policy from Duke University (USA) in 2012.
Donika Kamberi is the Director of the Center for Peace and Transcultural Communication at the University of Tetova, North Macedonia, where she also serves as a teaching assistant in International Law. She is the Editor of FREEDOM a bi-annual journal focused on peace-building. Her research interests encompass regional cooperation in the Balkans, peace-building processes, security issues, and democratization. Donika holds a Master of Science in Global Politics and International Relations from the University of Macerata, Italy, and is currently pursuing her PhD in International Law at SEEU. Recently, she has intensified her research on Russian aggression in Ukraine, focusing on the breach and collapse of international norms. Her work examines the implications of this aggression for regional stability and international law, contributing to broader discussions on security and peace-building in the context of the Balkans and beyond.
Dr. Ivana Stradner is a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and she is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. She studies Russia’s security strategies and military doctrines to understand how Russia uses information operations for strategic communication. Her work examines both the psychological and technical aspects of Russian information security. Ivana also analyzes Russian influence in international organizations; she is currently focusing on the UN Cybercrime Treaty and UN efforts to regulate information security. Ivana has testified before the European Parliament and has briefed various government officials. Ivana also serves as a special correspondent for KyivPost. Before joining FDD, Ivana worked as a visiting scholar at Harvard University and a lecturer for a variety of universities, including the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and as a Jeane Kirkpatrick fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Ivana has been published in academic journals and has written for The Washington Post, New York Post, Foreign Affairs, The Hill, Foreign Policy, Politico, The Telegraph, National Review, and more.
Reuf Bajrović (@ReufBajrovic) is the Vice President at the US-Europe Alliance in Washington, DC and a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Previously, he served as president of the Emerging Democracies Institute in Washington, DC, and president of the Civic Alliance political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr. Bajrovic served as the Minister of Energy, Industry and Mining of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he oversaw a portfolio of $2 billion. He has served as consultant and advisor in over a dozen countries to political parties, private foundations and development agencies such as USAID, European Commission, EU Police Mission, UNDP, UK Department for International Development (DFID), German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), National Democratic Institute (NDI), International Republican Institute (IRI), Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Alek Barović is a Montenegrin political scientist, civic activist and columnist. Currently he is a PhD candidate at the University of Padova, Italy, where he researches the role of religious communities in preservation of collective traumatic memory with a focus on genocide and how that memory is used in creation of national identity.
