Social Science Research Council

The Program on Global Security and Cooperation, in partnership with the Ethnobarometer Program of the Italian Social Science Council (CSS), launched a program called "Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans: A Young Scholars' Exchange." This one-time exchange was funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, and managed by the Social Science Research Council in Washington, DC.

Fellowships for twelve weeks of research on Southeast Europe were awarded in December 2002 to eight young American and East European scholars who are Ph.D. candidates in the social sciences, and who are pursuing research on issues of inter-ethnic relations and ethnic conflict in Southeast Europe. These research fellowships were intended to enhance knowledge about ethnic conflict in the Balkans, to produce tangible problem-solving results, and to promote scholarly collaboration and cross-cultural understanding. American Fellows spent their tenures at host institutions in the Balkans, while the East European awardees resided at US institutions for the duration of the exchange. Fellows worked cooperatively with others at their host institutions, with Ethnobarometer, and the SSRC. The organizers of the exchange facilitated public presentations and other forms of involvement in the intellectual life of the host countries. Tangible products of the research on ethnic conflict, such as articles, speeches, and other scholarly outputs, were expected to be disseminated widely.

2003 SSRC-CSS FELLOWS

Kristina Balalovska (Macedonia)
The EU's Conflict-Prevention Policy: The Case of Macedonia
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris/UNESCO, Paris
Host Institution: East European Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC

Fred Cocozzelli (US)
Social Welfare System in Kosovo and Its Impact on the Creation of Democratic Citizenship
New School University, New York
Host Institution: Institute for Social Policy, Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Pristina

Zidas Daskalovski (Macedonia)
Common Foreign and Security Policy and Conflict Prevention in the Balkans. European Union and the Conflict in Macedonia: Finally a Success Story?
Central European University, Budapest, and European Stability Initiative, Skopje
Host Institution: Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Nevena Dimova (US)
Ethnographies of Separation: Macedonian and Albanian Intellectuals Constructing the Macedonian State(s) and Nation(s)
University of Pittsburgh
Host Institution: Institute for Social, Political and Juridical Research, and the Center for Peace and Democracy, Skopje

Lara J. Nettelfield (US)
Transitional Justice in Transitional States: The Case of Srebrenica
Columbia University, New York
Host Institution: Institute for the Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law, University of Sarajevo

Gergana Noutcheva (Bulgaria)
EU Conditionality and Balkan Compliance: Does Sovereignty Matter?
University of Pittsburgh, and Center for European Policy Studies, Brussels
Host Institution: Fund for Peace, Washington, DC

L. Kendall Palmer (US)
Power-sharing Extended: Policing and Education Reforms in Bosnia-Herzegovina
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Host Institution: International Crisis Group, Sarajevo

Daniela Tarnovschi (Romania)
The Construction of New Roma Ethnic Identity
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj
Host Institution: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California at San Diego