Western Balkans
My engagement in the Western Balkans began with supporting the Kosovan elections in 2001 with the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. I then worked as a researcher on the region with Saferworld before being seconded into the UNDP/Stability Pact regional clearinghouse for small arms (SEESAC) in Belgrade from 2004. I have continued to provide research, analysis and advice on the region in more recent years – for example to inform Sweden’s regional peacebuilding engagement.
Past assignments include:
Provided strategic and operational advice to the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency in response to requests to the Saferworld, Bradford University and Stockholm Policy Group helpdesks on peace, human rights, rule of law and conflict sensitivity, including authoring a number of written reports from 2010 onwards
Report with Astrit Istrefi: ‘Regional conflict analysis of the Western Balkans,’ (Saferworld helpdesk task for Sida, December 2021)
Provided advice and helped develop Saferworld's regional & country peacebuilding programming in the Balkans, Bangladesh, Egypt, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda and Yemen
Report: ‘Drawing boundaries in the Western Balkans: A people’s perspective,’ (Saferworld, October 2011)
Report: ‘Police and Security Sector Reform in Moldova,’ (CICS/Saferworld report for SIDA, August 2010)
Report: ‘Strategic overview of armed violence data collection and analysis mechanisms (South East Europe),’ (Belgrade, SEESAC, 2006)
Report chapters on Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro: ‘Analysis of national legislation on arms exports and transfers in the Western Balkans,’ (Belgrade, Saferworld/SEESAC, 2006)
Report: ‘SALW Awareness in Schools – Towards a National Curriculum,’ (Belgrade, SEESAC, 2005)
Report: ‘SASP Test in North East Serbia – Evaluation Report,’ (Belgrade, SEESAC, 2005)
Report with Paul Holtom, Henry Smith, Bernardo Mariani, Simon Rynn & Juliana Sokolova: ‘Turning the Page: small arms and light weapons in Albania,’ (CPDE/Saferworld, 2005)
Report with Philip Gounev & Bernardo Mariani: ‘Weapons Under Scrutiny: Implementing arms export controls and combating small arms proliferation in Bulgaria,’ (Saferworld/CSD, April 2004)
Article: ‘Strategic Analysis Report No 2: Republic of Georgia,’ (Olive Security, Jan 2004)