Vedran DUihió

Dr. Vedran Dzihic is currently Senior Researcher at oiip - Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Co-Director of Center for Advanced Studies, South East Europe and Assistant Professor at the Institute for Political Sciences, University of . He has been Austrian Fellow and is currently non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, Washington D.C. Dzihic teaches MA courses at the MA Human Rights and the MA Balkan- Studies at the University in Vienna.

Vedran Dzihic is author of 4 monographs and editor/co-editor of fuither 14 edited volumes/books. He is also author of numerous book chapters, scholarly articles (in joumals like Nationalities Papers, East European Politics and Society, Southeastem Europa, JEMIE, Europe-Asia Studies, L'Europe en formation, Südosteuropa, Foteign Policy in Dialogue, etc), policy papers and op-eds on various topics. He has been invited to more than 200 conferences and talks in the USA, China, , Germany, Sweden, Estonia, Turkey, Switzerland, France, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, , Macedonia, Montenegro, , Slovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Belgium. Interviews and media contributions to (among others) Der Standard, Die Presse, ORF, Frankfurter Rundschau, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, CICERO, V/DR, Deutsche V/elle,Voice of America, Times, US Today, BBC, Oslobodjenje, Slobodna Bosna, Dani, BHTVI, Radio, Slobodna Evropa, Tanjug, Danas, , Novi List, HRT, Koha Ditore, Zeri,El Mundo, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Euro Observer, etc.

Recently, he published a monograph on Bosnia-Herzegovina in German: "Ethnopolitik in Bosnien-Herzegowina: Staat und Gesellschaft in der Krise", Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2010; co-edited a book in English ,,Conflict and Memory: Bridging Past and Future in (South East) Europe" together with Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch (2010); and co-edited two books in 2012 in cooperation with Brookings Institutions and Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS, Washington DC: "Unfinished Business. The Western Balkans and the International Community", together with Dan Hamilton, and "Looming Shadows. Migration and Integration at a Time of Upheaval. European and American Perspectives", together with Thomas Schmidinger.

Dzihic received his MA and PhD with honours from the .