Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 376602 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic |
| NOMBRES | Vesna |
| APELLIDO | Bojicic-Dzelilovic |
| FIRMA | BOJICIC-DZELILOVIC V |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7831-9316 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Learning Lessons About Aid Effectiveness in Post-War Contexts
This article assesses how effectively international aid has supported peace-promoting constituencies among civil society and business actors in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. It probes the plausibility of a proposed model that illuminates how implementing the international aid blueprint in conflict-affected settings can make aid efforts vulnerable to resilient domestic constituencies that pursue narrow interests and undermine pro-peace constitu…
Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's selection of tools and methods underexplored. Addressing this gap, the paper offers a comprehensive analysis of …
Violation of Principles? How Donors Undermine SSR Assistance
Security sector reform (SSR) has become a cornerstone of internationally supported peacebuilding in countries recovering from war. However, despite extensive support, its success has been limited. Scholarship on aid effectiveness attributes this to a lack of aid coordination, which arises from the politics of aid and donor proliferation. This paper argues that the coordination challenge in SSR also stems from operational practices within this fie…
Tested by the Covid-19 economic shock
Establishing economic collaboration between previously antagonistic groups during post-conflict business recovery advances peacebuilding by nurturing intergroup ties. However, we have a limited understanding of how post-conflict intergroup economic collaboration develops and how it is sustained. We address these gaps from the perspective of peace-positive entrepreneurship. Specifically, an ecosystem approach that we apply directs analysis to dyna…
Persistence of informal networks and liberal peace-building
Whole-of-Society Peacebuilding
The complex problems of peace, security, and development in societies affected by conflict increasingly demand innovative ideas, and comprehensive strategies to tackle the diverse, simultaneous, and daunting challenges faced in trying to rebuild states and communities after war. This comprehensive collection sets out a 'WholeofSociety' (WoS) approach which focuses on the social contexts within which conflict resolution and prevention take place. …
Drawing on the continuum
Current understandings of why and how gender-based violence continues beyond the end of conflict remain siloed along theoretical and disciplinary lines. Recent scholarship has addressed the neglected structural dimension when examining the incidence and variation of post-conflict gender-based violence. In particular, continuum of violence and feminist political economy perspectives have offered accounts of gender-based violence during and after c…
Taxing for inequalities
This article seeks to illuminate structural limits of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) by analysing the interplay between economic and fiscal reforms, promoted by International Financial Institutions (IFIs), and gender budgeting initiatives in the Western Balkans. GRB is the core concept bridging revenue mobilization and gender equality in the work of IFIs. However, as the Western Balkans experience demonstrates, GRB initiatives are best charact…
Wholly local? ownership as philosophy and practice in peacebuilding interventions
This paper engages with the theme of local ownership in peacebuilding from a practice-based perspective which suggests that the way in which the external actors reach out and work with local constituencies shows conceptual and practice gaps that limit the applicability of local ownership in day-to-day peacebuilding operations. We examine how, in the case of EU peacebuilding policies, such gaps impair the potential for effective, inclusive and sus…
Introductory article
External peacebuilding interventions have moved towards comprehensive strategies to tackle the complex problems of peace, security and development. This paper proposes a ‘Whole-of-Society’ (WOS) approach which seeks to enhance the effectiveness of externally led peacebuilding and conflict prevention through recourse to the social contexts within which they are implemented. The aim of WOS is to see complexity, both within local society and in the …
It’s not just the economy, stupid’. The multi-directional security effects of the private sector in post-conflict reconstruction
Using a human security lens, this article explores the interface between transnational corporations (TNCs) and post-conflict, post-crisis societies. It demonstrates how TNCs influence political and economic transition, through impacting the everyday experience of security, creating multiple and ambiguous effects on individuals and communities. Examples of two foreign corporate engagements: carmaker Fiat’s investment in Serbia and steelmaker Arcel…
Organised crime and international aid subversion
Scholarly attempts to explain aid subversion in post-conflict contexts frame the challenge in terms of corrupt practices and transactions disconnected from local power struggles. Also, they assume a distinction between organised crime and the state. This comparative analysis of aid subversion in Colombia and Afghanistan reveals the limits of such an approach. Focusing on relations that anchor organised crime within local political, social and eco…
Transnationalism in the Balkans
Introduction Natalija Basic, Free University, Germany Europeanising the Balkans: Rethinking the Post-Communist and Post-Conflict Transition Denisa Kostovicova & Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic Civil Society in the Focus of Foreign Aid in Kosovo: Exports of Peace and Multiculuralism to Nation-Building Sites Ana Devic, University of Aarhus, Denmark On the Edges of Empires Aida A. Hozic, University of Florida 'Friends, Balkans, Statesment lend us your ears…
Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans
This book explores the ambiguous role played by civil society in the processes of state-building, democratization and post-conflict reconstruction in the Western Balkans challenging the assumption tha
Informality, Inequality and Social Reintegration in Post-War Transition
This article seeks to reconceptualize the notion of informality in the post-war context in order to investigate the neglected aspect of inequality which is associated with this kind of practice. It locates the problem of widespread informality in the social transformation triggered by a war that has been sustained by the post-war elite accommodation. Inequities created by a routine resort to informal arrangements in accessing assets and resources…
Europeanisation and conflict networks
Focusing on conflict legacy, this article contributes to the study of domestic mediating conditions as an explanation of "shallow Europeanisation" in the Western Balkans, defined as a disconnect between European rules and local practices. It critiques the prevalent neo-Weberian understanding of state capacity, which highlights rule-enforcement capability of state institutions, but reduces conflict legacy to a question of resources. The article ar…
Jahresinhaltsverzeichnis
The missing link in human security research
The concept of human security continues to defy definitional clarity at the same time as it is being embraced by policymakers. This article proposes a practice-grounded approach that focuses on investigative method as a way of linking conceptual understanding of human security to the research process. Probing the ‘actorness’ of individuals in volatile contexts, a study of insecurity in Kosovo shows how dialogue can be applied as a research tool t…
Locating Power in State-Building
State-building scholarship distinguishes analytically between the outside and inside realms of the nation-state. Accordingly, obstacles to the external project of reconstructing local political authority are attributed to the relationship between outsiders and insiders which is reflected in studies of legitimacy, ownership and accountability. This paper adopts a war economy perspective to illustrate "regressive globalization". It elaborates a net…
Introduction
The academic literature on state-building has focused largely on actual policies and practices and how to understand its challenges and improve on practice. Particularly salient recently is the relation between external actors and local resistance. In its course, this literature and its practitioners are implicitly developing a field of scholarly study, as a community of researchers focusing on post-conflict countries and asking a set of question…
Unlocking Regional and Local Development Potential in South East Europe
Interview with Mr Hidajet Biscevic, Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council, Sarajevo, January 2011
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Informality in post‐communist transition
The article contributes to a scarce pool of academic literature on Bulgarian privatization. It reviews the process in its economic, political and social determinants and consequences and reveals the active participation and undue influence of particularistic networks enjoying exclusive access to power. In the circumstances of lacking conceptual and theoretical clarity no privatization alternative dominated on all grounds and considerations and en…
Drawing on the continuum
Current understandings of why and how gender-based violence continues beyond the end of conflict remain siloed along theoretical and disciplinary lines. Recent scholarship has addressed the neglected structural dimension when examining the incidence and variation of post-conflict gender-based violence. In particular, continuum of violence and feminist political economy perspectives have offered accounts of gender-based violence during and after c…
Europeanisation and conflict networks
Focusing on conflict legacy, this article contributes to the study of domestic mediating conditions as an explanation of "shallow Europeanisation" in the Western Balkans, defined as a disconnect between European rules and local practices. It critiques the prevalent neo-Weberian understanding of state capacity, which highlights rule-enforcement capability of state institutions, but reduces conflict legacy to a question of resources. The article ar…
The missing link in human security research
The concept of human security continues to defy definitional clarity at the same time as it is being embraced by policymakers. This article proposes a practice-grounded approach that focuses on investigative method as a way of linking conceptual understanding of human security to the research process. Probing the ‘actorness’ of individuals in volatile contexts, a study of insecurity in Kosovo shows how dialogue can be applied as a research tool t…
Introductory article
External peacebuilding interventions have moved towards comprehensive strategies to tackle the complex problems of peace, security and development. This paper proposes a ‘Whole-of-Society’ (WOS) approach which seeks to enhance the effectiveness of externally led peacebuilding and conflict prevention through recourse to the social contexts within which they are implemented. The aim of WOS is to see complexity, both within local society and in the …
It’s not just the economy, stupid’. The multi-directional security effects of the private sector in post-conflict reconstruction
Using a human security lens, this article explores the interface between transnational corporations (TNCs) and post-conflict, post-crisis societies. It demonstrates how TNCs influence political and economic transition, through impacting the everyday experience of security, creating multiple and ambiguous effects on individuals and communities. Examples of two foreign corporate engagements: carmaker Fiat’s investment in Serbia and steelmaker Arcel…
Informality, Inequality and Social Reintegration in Post-War Transition
This article seeks to reconceptualize the notion of informality in the post-war context in order to investigate the neglected aspect of inequality which is associated with this kind of practice. It locates the problem of widespread informality in the social transformation triggered by a war that has been sustained by the post-war elite accommodation. Inequities created by a routine resort to informal arrangements in accessing assets and resources…
Wholly local? ownership as philosophy and practice in peacebuilding interventions
This paper engages with the theme of local ownership in peacebuilding from a practice-based perspective which suggests that the way in which the external actors reach out and work with local constituencies shows conceptual and practice gaps that limit the applicability of local ownership in day-to-day peacebuilding operations. We examine how, in the case of EU peacebuilding policies, such gaps impair the potential for effective, inclusive and sus…
Organised crime and international aid subversion
Scholarly attempts to explain aid subversion in post-conflict contexts frame the challenge in terms of corrupt practices and transactions disconnected from local power struggles. Also, they assume a distinction between organised crime and the state. This comparative analysis of aid subversion in Colombia and Afghanistan reveals the limits of such an approach. Focusing on relations that anchor organised crime within local political, social and eco…
Informality in post‐communist transition
The article contributes to a scarce pool of academic literature on Bulgarian privatization. It reviews the process in its economic, political and social determinants and consequences and reveals the active participation and undue influence of particularistic networks enjoying exclusive access to power. In the circumstances of lacking conceptual and theoretical clarity no privatization alternative dominated on all grounds and considerations and en…
Unlocking Regional and Local Development Potential in South East Europe
Interview with Mr Hidajet Biscevic, Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council, Sarajevo, January 2011
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Jahresinhaltsverzeichnis
The missing link in human security research
The concept of human security continues to defy definitional clarity at the same time as it is being embraced by policymakers. This article proposes a practice-grounded approach that focuses on investigative method as a way of linking conceptual understanding of human security to the research process. Probing the ‘actorness’ of individuals in volatile contexts, a study of insecurity in Kosovo shows how dialogue can be applied as a research tool t…
Locating Power in State-Building
State-building scholarship distinguishes analytically between the outside and inside realms of the nation-state. Accordingly, obstacles to the external project of reconstructing local political authority are attributed to the relationship between outsiders and insiders which is reflected in studies of legitimacy, ownership and accountability. This paper adopts a war economy perspective to illustrate "regressive globalization". It elaborates a net…
Introduction
The academic literature on state-building has focused largely on actual policies and practices and how to understand its challenges and improve on practice. Particularly salient recently is the relation between external actors and local resistance. In its course, this literature and its practitioners are implicitly developing a field of scholarly study, as a community of researchers focusing on post-conflict countries and asking a set of question…
Transnationalism in the Balkans
Introduction Natalija Basic, Free University, Germany Europeanising the Balkans: Rethinking the Post-Communist and Post-Conflict Transition Denisa Kostovicova & Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic Civil Society in the Focus of Foreign Aid in Kosovo: Exports of Peace and Multiculuralism to Nation-Building Sites Ana Devic, University of Aarhus, Denmark On the Edges of Empires Aida A. Hozic, University of Florida 'Friends, Balkans, Statesment lend us your ears…
Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans
This book explores the ambiguous role played by civil society in the processes of state-building, democratization and post-conflict reconstruction in the Western Balkans challenging the assumption tha
Informality, Inequality and Social Reintegration in Post-War Transition
This article seeks to reconceptualize the notion of informality in the post-war context in order to investigate the neglected aspect of inequality which is associated with this kind of practice. It locates the problem of widespread informality in the social transformation triggered by a war that has been sustained by the post-war elite accommodation. Inequities created by a routine resort to informal arrangements in accessing assets and resources…
Europeanisation and conflict networks
Focusing on conflict legacy, this article contributes to the study of domestic mediating conditions as an explanation of "shallow Europeanisation" in the Western Balkans, defined as a disconnect between European rules and local practices. It critiques the prevalent neo-Weberian understanding of state capacity, which highlights rule-enforcement capability of state institutions, but reduces conflict legacy to a question of resources. The article ar…
Organised crime and international aid subversion
Scholarly attempts to explain aid subversion in post-conflict contexts frame the challenge in terms of corrupt practices and transactions disconnected from local power struggles. Also, they assume a distinction between organised crime and the state. This comparative analysis of aid subversion in Colombia and Afghanistan reveals the limits of such an approach. Focusing on relations that anchor organised crime within local political, social and eco…
It’s not just the economy, stupid’. The multi-directional security effects of the private sector in post-conflict reconstruction
Using a human security lens, this article explores the interface between transnational corporations (TNCs) and post-conflict, post-crisis societies. It demonstrates how TNCs influence political and economic transition, through impacting the everyday experience of security, creating multiple and ambiguous effects on individuals and communities. Examples of two foreign corporate engagements: carmaker Fiat’s investment in Serbia and steelmaker Arcel…
Wholly local? ownership as philosophy and practice in peacebuilding interventions
This paper engages with the theme of local ownership in peacebuilding from a practice-based perspective which suggests that the way in which the external actors reach out and work with local constituencies shows conceptual and practice gaps that limit the applicability of local ownership in day-to-day peacebuilding operations. We examine how, in the case of EU peacebuilding policies, such gaps impair the potential for effective, inclusive and sus…
Introductory article
External peacebuilding interventions have moved towards comprehensive strategies to tackle the complex problems of peace, security and development. This paper proposes a ‘Whole-of-Society’ (WOS) approach which seeks to enhance the effectiveness of externally led peacebuilding and conflict prevention through recourse to the social contexts within which they are implemented. The aim of WOS is to see complexity, both within local society and in the …
Whole-of-Society Peacebuilding
The complex problems of peace, security, and development in societies affected by conflict increasingly demand innovative ideas, and comprehensive strategies to tackle the diverse, simultaneous, and daunting challenges faced in trying to rebuild states and communities after war. This comprehensive collection sets out a 'WholeofSociety' (WoS) approach which focuses on the social contexts within which conflict resolution and prevention take place. …
Drawing on the continuum
Current understandings of why and how gender-based violence continues beyond the end of conflict remain siloed along theoretical and disciplinary lines. Recent scholarship has addressed the neglected structural dimension when examining the incidence and variation of post-conflict gender-based violence. In particular, continuum of violence and feminist political economy perspectives have offered accounts of gender-based violence during and after c…
Taxing for inequalities
This article seeks to illuminate structural limits of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) by analysing the interplay between economic and fiscal reforms, promoted by International Financial Institutions (IFIs), and gender budgeting initiatives in the Western Balkans. GRB is the core concept bridging revenue mobilization and gender equality in the work of IFIs. However, as the Western Balkans experience demonstrates, GRB initiatives are best charact…
Persistence of informal networks and liberal peace-building
Tested by the Covid-19 economic shock
Establishing economic collaboration between previously antagonistic groups during post-conflict business recovery advances peacebuilding by nurturing intergroup ties. However, we have a limited understanding of how post-conflict intergroup economic collaboration develops and how it is sustained. We address these gaps from the perspective of peace-positive entrepreneurship. Specifically, an ecosystem approach that we apply directs analysis to dyna…
Learning Lessons About Aid Effectiveness in Post-War Contexts
This article assesses how effectively international aid has supported peace-promoting constituencies among civil society and business actors in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. It probes the plausibility of a proposed model that illuminates how implementing the international aid blueprint in conflict-affected settings can make aid efforts vulnerable to resilient domestic constituencies that pursue narrow interests and undermine pro-peace constitu…
Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's selection of tools and methods underexplored. Addressing this gap, the paper offers a comprehensive analysis of …
Violation of Principles? How Donors Undermine SSR Assistance
Security sector reform (SSR) has become a cornerstone of internationally supported peacebuilding in countries recovering from war. However, despite extensive support, its success has been limited. Scholarship on aid effectiveness attributes this to a lack of aid coordination, which arises from the politics of aid and donor proliferation. This paper argues that the coordination challenge in SSR also stems from operational practices within this fie…
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