During the three-month research period, participants will spend one month in either Belgrade or Prishtina. Throughout the program, they will engage with different perspectives, develop their research, and contribute to shifting dominant narratives by bringing new insights into public discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The five selected fellows from Kosovo and Serbia that will take part in the third chord of the program are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nAleksandra Radovanovi\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Aleksandra Radovanovic has built a multidisciplinary career spanning data analytics and psychotherapy. She began her professional path working in HR and later combined this experience with data analysis, providing strategic people data and insights within the global development industry. She subsequently transitioned into psychotherapy and currently runs a private practice focused on individual therapy through a constructivist lens. In addition, she is a member of an NGO based in Novi Sad that, among other initiatives, provides psychological support to youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her professional interests centre on how mental health systems are structured, implemented, and experienced across different socio-political contexts. In particular, she is interested in examining how mental health is addressed in Kosovo and Serbia, exploring both systemic gaps and innovative practices. By comparing these neighbouring contexts, she aims to identify areas for mutual learning and contribute to the development of more accessible, responsive, and culturally attuned mental health frameworks in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Keywords:<\/strong> mental health, mutual learning, collective trauma, psychotherapy<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Ana Milosavljevi\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ana Milosavljevi\u0107 is a journalist and activist based in Belgrade. She reports on social movements and political developments in Serbia and the region, and has covered the student protest movement for <\/span>The Guardian<\/span><\/i>. Her reporting has also appeared in the Serbian online outlet <\/span>Ma\u0161ina<\/span><\/i>. In 2024, she completed her Master\u2019s degree in journalism at Cat\u00f3lica University in Lisbon, Portugal, where she defended her dissertation on U.S. media coverage of the war in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ana\u2019s research project, conducted in collaboration with Rozafa Maliqi from Prishtina, Kosovo, examines the 1968 protest movements in former Yugoslavia. Their study investigates how protests in Belgrade and Prishtina diverged during a moment of global uprising and explores how these historical dynamics continue to shape political narratives today, including the persistence of anti-Albanian sentiment within contemporary protest movements in Serbia. Both Ana and Rozafa are members of the Balkan Solidarity Network, a platform that connects activists, researchers, and social movements across the region against nationalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Keywords:<\/b>nationalism, protests, anti-Albanian sentiment, political narratives<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Donjeta Rexhbogaj<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n Donjeta Rexhbogaj is a legal researcher and writer from Kosovo, focusing on transitional justice, human rights and post-conflict memory. She conducted research at the European Training and Research Center for Human Rights at the University of Graz, examining the role of internationalized judicial institutions in Kosovo\u2019s post-conflict justice system, and worked as a court monitor and legal researcher with BIRN Kosovo. Passionate about writing, she explores justice, reconciliation and post-conflict memory through analytical and reflective narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her fellowship project, Women Writing Justice, investigates how women journalists in Kosovo and Serbia shape public narratives about war, justice and post-conflict processes.Through qualitative interviews, narrative analysis and media review, the research documents the professional experiences and ethical challenges faced by journalists reporting on war crimes, human rights and accountability. By highlighting these experiences, the project aims to amplify women\u2019s voices in shaping transitional memory and to encourage more nuanced public discussion on justice, responsibility and reconciliation in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Keywords:<\/b>transitional justice, journalism, women perspectives, narratives about the war<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ljiljana Todorovi\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ljiljana Todorovi\u0107 Jovanovi\u0107 is the founder and director of FemIn kolektiv in Po\u017earevac, Serbia, an organisation dedicated to feminist education, prevention of gender-based violence, memory culture, peacebuilding, and transitional justice. She holds a professional background in Environmental Health Engineering and worked for 15 years in a biochemistry laboratory before returning to academia. She is currently in her second year of Communicology studies. Her work focuses on women\u2019s personal histories, memory politics, and the ways intimate experiences reflect broader social and political transformations in post-conflict societies. She has participated in regional dialogue and reconciliation programs between Kosovo and Serbia, including the Feminist Spring School organised by the Alternative Girls\u2019 Center. During the Feminist Studies programme at the Center for Women\u2019s Studies, she initiated and coordinated the publication Moja baka partizanka (My Grandma the Partisan), a regional project documenting the testimonies of granddaughters of women who fought in the anti-fascist struggle during WWII across the former Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The project examines how women\u2019s anti-fascist legacies are preserved and reinterpreted across generations in the context of historical revisionism. As a documentary photographer, Ljiljana integrates visual storytelling into her research and activism. Her current project, The Home Archive of Peace, explores memories of coexistence between Serbian and Albanian women before the 1990s wars, using personal archives and participatory storytelling to foster dialogue and challenge nationalist narratives. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Keywords:<\/b> historical revisionism, women perspectives, coexistence, participatory storytelling<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Rozafa Maliqi<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rozafa Maliqi is a community organizer, cultural manager and researcher. She studied Business Administration at the American University in Bulgaria. For more than 15 years, she has been working across cultural and grassroots initiatives in Kosova, alongside research and publication projects, and a period spent in Vietnam teaching English. She was part of the collective that established Termokiss and currently works with Kino Armata in Prishtina. Rozafa is most drawn to collective processes and the possibilities that emerge where community work takes place.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Her research project, developed in collaboration with Ana Milosavljevi\u0107, examines how the global wave of uprisings in 1968 manifested in former Yugoslavia, taking distinct forms in the political center, Serbia, and in the marginalized periphery, Kosova, and what this reveals about the dynamics of the federation. Both researchers are members of the Balkan Solidarity Network, and the project aims to help activate a wider conversation connected to the work and solidarities built through this network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Keywords:<\/b>global wave of uprisings in 1968, nationalism, protests, students<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n The program was implemented within the project Fostering Cross-border Dialogue and Civic Engagement, carried out by Heartefact with the support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As part of the new generation of the Kosovo-Serbia Fellowship Program, Heartefact has selected five fellows who will explore new and constructive narratives in the region. 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