Balkans Initiative

Fellows Specializing in the Balkans

Over the years, USIP's Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program has brought a wide array of distinguished journalists, scholars, diplomats, and other experts on the Balkans to USIP to conduct research and participate in USIP's Balkans activities.

Fellows over the years have included:

• Albert Cevallos, formerly with the U.S. Agency for International Development (Senior Fellow, 2003-2004): "Steal This Revolution: Nonviolent Revolution and the Transition to Democracy in Serbia."
• Sonja Biserko, head of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia (Senior Fellow, 2000-2001): "Serbia versus Yugoslavia: An Inside View of the Yugoslav Crisis."
• Tone Bringa, associate professor of social anthropology, University of London (Guest Scholar, 1999-2000): "Post-War Reintegration in the Balkans."
• Stojan Cerovic, Columnist, Vreme, Belgrade (Senior Fellow, 1999-2000): "Yugoslavia after the Kosovo Conflict."
• Dana Eyre, former senior policy advisor to the deputy special representative of the secretary general at the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (2001-03) and the plans officer for the Joint Civil-Military Task Force, Stabilization Force on Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• Gerald Gahima, a judge with the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• Pierre Hazan, a UN correspondent in Geneva for the French newspaper Liberation and the Swiss daily Le Temps, covering many international crises including those in the Balkans.
• Daniel Serwer, State Department special envoy for the Bosnian Federation (Senior Fellow, 1998-1999): "Balkans Regional Security."
• Ruzica Rosandic, Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade (Senior Fellow, 1997-1998): "The Goodwill Classroom: Conflict Resolution and Human Rights Training in Educational Policy."
• John Menzies, U.S. ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina (Senior Fellow, 1997-1998): "Consequences of the Dayton Peace Agreements for Regional Security."
• Dusko Doder, former Moscow correspondent, The Washington Post (Senior Fellow, 1996-1997): "Reconstructing the Balkans after Yugoslavia's Dissolution and Civil War."
• Vesna Pesic, chairwoman of the Civil Alliance of Serbia (Senior Fellow, 1994-1995): "Preparing the Ground for War in Serbia, 1987-1992."
• Ted Robert Gurr, distinguished university professor, Department of Government and Politics, Center for International Development and Conflict University of Maryland (Peace Fellow, 1988-1989): "Minorities at Risk: A Global View of Ethnopolitical Conflicts."