I am an Assistant Professor in International History at Utrecht University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. I am a historian and a genocide scholar, and my work is on irregular armed groups, genocide and mass violence and transitional justice, especially criminal accountability. My PhD research was based on archives at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Before coming to The Hague in 2009, I spent three years in Sarajevo, where I worked as a researcher and analyst at the Special Department for War Crimes at the Office of the Prosecutor. I teach an MA course on perpetrators and genocide prevention at Stockton University in the United States. I am currently finalizing my first book, which will come out (in the fall of 2022) in the Contemporary Security Studies at Routledge.
In the past ten years I have presented in academic settings, in professional (practitioner) environments, and for the general public. I have also commented on developments in war crimes trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for the BBC, The Guardian, Reuters, and others. Apart from the ICTY, I frequently discuss war crimes prosecution strategy and policy in the aftermath of mass violence. Recently, my research interest increasingly include irregular armed forces, and the civil war in Syria.