WHO THEY ARE:
RESONANT VOICES FELLOWS
2019

Eleonora Vio
Topic: Serbia has returned to be a central staging ground for far-right actors from all over Europe Story: ‘Young Patriots’: Serbia’s Role in the European Far-right
Eleonora Vio
Italy
Katarina Tadic
Katarina Tadic has seven years of experience working in the civil society sector in Serbia.
Her research interests cover a variety of subjects including public administration reform in Serbia, democratization and state-building in Kosovo, and gender equality-related topics.
As a Chevening scholar, she spent the past year in the UK studying MSc in Policy Research at the University of Bristol, doing a dissertation on domestic violence in Serbia.
Topic: Revisionsm and denial in Serbian diaspora
Story: ‘Westernised’ Serbs More Open, But Nationalist Narratives Linger
Katarina Tadic
Serbia, UK
Ebi Spahiu
Ebi Spahiu is a researcher and social scientist with extensive experience in the not-for-profit sector, with her work having taken her to East Asia, Central Asia, and the Western Balkans. She is currently serving as an adjunct professor at the Faculty for Security Studies and Civil Society at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany.
Topic: Radicalisation of Albanian diaspora in the EU
Story: The Rise of Religious Radicalisation among Diaspora Albanians
Ebi Spahiu
Albania
Aleksandar Roknic
Aleksandar Roknic is a journalist at the Serbian daily “Danas”. He writes about law, culture, war crimes, politics and crime.
Roknic is also experienced in court reporting, including covering cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague as well as legal and sociological phenomenon and politics.
Topic: Links between Serbian diaspora and far right policies in Austria
Story: ‘Deal with the Devil’: Austrian Serbs Embrace Anti-Migrant Right
Aleksandar Roknic
Serbia
Nenad Radicevic
Nenad Radicevic is an experienced journalist and editor from Serbia, specialized in international reporting, who has been working for the last four years as a Germany correspondent for a number of media outlets in the Balkans.
After a decade working in print media, last years he is engaged in mobile and video journalism as well.
He was a 2007 fellow of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence.
Topic: Links between AfD and Pediga and Balkan communities
Story: “We Are Their Voice”: German Far-Right Builds Balkan Alliances
Nenad Radicevic
Germany
Akos Keller-Alant
Ákos Keller-Alánt is an award-winning investigative journalist for the Hungarian magazine Magyar Narancs.
He mostly reports on politics, economics and corruption and conducts interviews with leading Hungarian and international politicians and professionals.
He’s also a news editor at magyarnarancs.hu.
Topic: Orban’s Hungary and its influence in the Balkans
Story: Imitating Orban: Hungary’s Illiberal Democracy Goes Beyond Borders
Akos Keller-Alant
Hungary
Barbora Hola
Barbora Holá is a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has an interdisciplinary focus and studies international criminal justice, societal reconstruction after atrocities, and the etiology of collective violence. Barbora has published extensively on these subjects and recently, she co-edited the Perpetrators of International Crimes: Theories, Methods and Evidence (OUP, 2018), and the Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes (forthcoming). Besides her research and teaching in the Master’s program International Crimes, Conflict and Criminology, Barbora is a co-director of the Center for International Criminal Justice, a knowledge center dedicated to interdisciplinary studies of mass atrocity crimes and international criminal justice (www.cicj.org) and a co-chair of the European Society of Criminology Group on Atrocity Crimes and Transitional Justice (https://ecactj.org/en/).
Topic: Radicalization of today‘s youth via the lenses of the past war experiences by highlighting transmission of the past war legacies from parents to children
Story: Next Generation: Enemies Inherited and the Bosnians Trying to Resist
Barbora Hola
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dimitar Ganev
Dimitar Ganev is a journalist and media expert, who conducts research and writes stories, analyses, comment pieces and interviews for multiple international and Bulgarian media outlets. His writing has appeared in international media such as Deutsche Welle, Euronews and Euractiv.
Topic: Policies that marginalize migrant-children and children-asylum seekers
Story: Soon
Dimitar Ganev
Bulgaria
Michael Colborne
Michael Colborne is a Canadian journalist. He covers social and political issues in central and eastern Europe, and is currently focused on the trans-national far right.
His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, The New Republic, Haaretz, CBC, The Guardian and others.
Topic: Links between Ukranian fighters and Croatian far right
Story: Croatia Key to Ukrainian Far-Right’s International Ambitions
Michael Colborne
Croatia
Mirza Buljubasic
Mirza Buljubasic is Assistant of Criminology at the Faculty of Criminal Justice, Criminology and Security Studies at the University of Sarajevo. He received his MA and BA in Criminology, MA in Criminal Law and MA in Security Studies (all with honours) at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He worked as a research consultant, researcher and analyst at Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, and Remembrance, an organization documenting, profiling, and mapping war crimes, detention facilities, and camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina; researcher at Atlantic Initiative on reciprocal radicalization and women empowerment and radicalism. His scholarly work was published in Oxford University Press, International Criminal Law Review, Criminal Justice Issues and Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society.
Topic: Radicalization of today‘s youth via the lenses of the past war experiences by highlighting transmission of the past war legacies from parents to children
Story: Next Generation: Enemies Inherited and the Bosnians Trying to Resist
Mirza Buljubasic
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Yiannis Baboulias
Yiannis Baboulias is a journalist covering European affairs and the far-right. His work is regularly published in Foreign Policy & The London Review of Books, as well as featured by the Atlantic, the Guardian and others.
Topic: Disinformation campaign in Europe
Story: Communion and the Coronavirus: COVID-19 Triggers Deep Orthodox Divisions
Yiannis Baboulias
UK
Aggelos Andreou
Aggelos Andreou is a digital journalist with more than 14 years of professional experience around the globe.
He holds a Master’s degree in globalization from Denmark’s Aarhus University and in financial and business journalism from City University of London.
Topic: The practices and rhetoric of the extreme right parties in Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece
Story: Europe’s Far-Right Exploits COVID-19 for Anti-Refugee Propaganda
Aggelos Andreou
Greece2020

Fjoralba Sinoruka
Fjori Sinoruka is an investigative journalist based in Albania, focusing on the misuse of public funds and human rights.
Topic: Illegal seasonal jobs in Greece
Story: Soon
Fjoralba Sinoruka
Albania
Ani Sandu
Ani Sandu is a news anchor and editor at Europa FM, one of the most popular commercial radio stations in Romania. She is also a contributing reporter for the non-fiction quarterly, DoR. She previously worked for ten years at the Romanian Public Radio, as a news anchor and editor. From 2012 to 2014, she was the US correspondent for the country’s public radio, based in Washington DC. She has worked in the media since 2004, covering news and current affairs.
Topic: A Mother’s Plea
Story: Romanian Right Turns Finnish Custody Fight into Anti-Western Propaganda
Ani Sandu
Romania
Jeton Musliu
Jeton Musliu is a journalist currently working as a news editor at the public broadcaster, Radio Television of Kosovo, RTK. He previously worked as an editor at the daily Tribuna, as a journalist for BIRN in Kosovo and for the daily newspaper, Express. Throughout his career, he collaborated with various international media and won several national and international awards in investigative journalism.
Topic: The migration of the dead
Story: Bringing Back the Bodies: The Balkan Immigrants Repatriated in Death
Jeton Musliu
Kosovo
Predrag Momcilovic
Predrag Momcilovic is a journalist and PhD student from the Serbian capital of Belgrade, where he focuses on ecology and political ecology, green technology, and public services. He also works as a journalist in Serbia and abroad, and is a member of the editorial board of the online portal, Masina.
Topic: Greenwashing of European Far Right
Story: Soon
Predrag Momcilovic
Serbia
Andjela Milivojevic
Andjela Milivojevic is a Serbian investigative journalist, specializing in reporting about corruption and crime. For nearly ten years, she worked for the Centre for investigative journalism of Serbia and is now a freelance reporter for several media outlets in Serbia and Kosovo.
Topic: Serbian Bot Army
Story: The Castle: How Serbia’s Rulers Manipulate Minds and the People Pay
Andjela Milivojevic
Serbia
Una Hajdari
Una Hajdari is a freelance journalist focused on Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Her reporting is focused on topics such as the far-right, post-socialist identity and nationalism.
Topic: Far right meme kebab
Story: Soon
Una Hajdari
Kosovo
Jelena Djureinovic
Jelena Djureinovic is a historian from Serbia and author of the book The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia: Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution, which was published in 2019.
She works as a program coordinator at the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade.
Topic: Greenwashing of European Far Right
Story: Soon
Jelena Djureinovic
Serbia
Vladan Djukanovic
Vladan Djukanovic works in communications, primarily with civil society organisations in Serbia and the Western Balkans.
He is also an activist focused on issues of transitional justice and democracy.
Topic: Greenwashing of European Far Right
Story: Soon
Vladan Djukanovic
Serbia
Harun Dinarevic
Harun Dinarevic was born in Sarajevo in 1989.
He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, where he studied comparative literature and Bosnian literature.
He writes short stories, essays, film and literary critiques for literary magazines and other media outlets.
Last year, he focused on reporting on the Bosnian diaspora in Europe for the media outlet Oslobodjenje, as well as a number of other topics for the magazine Dani.
He now works as a freelancer.
Topic: Minority in BiH, Minority in Austria?
Story: Soon
Harun Dinarevic
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Merxhan Daci
Merxhan Daci is a journalist from Albania with experience in fact-checking and investigative journalism.
He has reported for other media in the Balkan and Europe.
Topic: Illegal seasonal jobs in Greece
Story: Soon
Merxhan Daci
Albania
Saska Cvetanovska
Saska Cvetkovska has worked as a journalist for hard-hitting TV news shows in Macedonia. She specialises in the coverage of domestic and EU affairs.
She studied literature and journalism at university. Her fellowship story looks at why many young Macedonians are migrating abroad to find work.
Topic: Social media influencers and far right groups
Story: Soon
Saska Cvetanovska
North Macedonia
Valbona Bezati
Valbona Bezati is an Albanian communications specialist, lecturer and journalist, based in London. She currently is writing about issues related to human rights and dealing with the past, in addition to studying for a master’s degree in Advertising and Public Relation at Richmond – The American International University in London. Bezati holds a master’s of science in Public Relations and received her bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Communication Sciences from the University of Tirana. She has also studied Mass Media and Communication in Budapest, Hungary.
Topic: Living Illegaly – illegal migrants from Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and others Non-EU Western Balkan countries towards Western European countries such as Italy, Great Britain; Germany, Switzerland and other states
Story: Soon
Valbona Bezati
UK
Filip Balunovic
Filip Balunovic is a PhD candidate at the Italian University, Scuola Normale Superiore, at the Department of Political Science and Sociology.
His research interests include political economy, social movements, Marxism, political philosophy and political theory.
He graduated from the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade and received two masters’ from the European Institute in Nice, France and the Universities of Sarajevo and Bologna.
Balunovic is the executive editor of the Serbian edition of Le Monde Diplomatique and author of the book “Freedom Notebooks” (Mediteran, 2014) (Serbian “Beleske sa slobode”).
Topic: Is Yugoslavia Still Alive and Kicking Only in Diaspora?
Story: ‘Living Yugoslavia’: Past Identity Becomes Present Political Statement