Nemanja Džuverović
Biographic Data
| ID | 1667530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nemanja Džuverović |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nemanja |
| FAMILY NAME | Džuverović |
| SIGNATURE | DŽUVEROVIĆ N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8186-3670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Caught in the middle: Local researchers’ experience of mundane ethical harms in crisis settings
Most literature on research ethics originates from the perspectives of international researchers and, to a lesser extent, research subjects. This article goes beyond the prevailing understanding of ethical misconduct as a failure to secure informed consent, data breaches, coercion, or misuse of data. Instead, it seeks to develop the notion of ‘mundane ethical harms’ in conflict- and disaster-affected research, which are rooted in and shaped by th…
Building an international relations journal from scratch and from the margins: The case of Journal of Regional Security
This article analyzes the path of establishment of the Journal of Regional Security (JRS), an open-access journal which was built from scratch by a group of scholars interested in security and peace in the Western Balkans. The article shows that a successful building of an International Relations journal from scratch on the semiperiphery requires not only long-term commitment with slow and uncertain payoffs but also a lot of creativity and flexib…
In Defence of Europe: Pro-Ukraine activism and civil society mobilisation across Central and Southeast Europe
Local Turn in Knowledge Production About Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of the Balkan Peace Index
The notion that peace can be measured has been heavily criticised in peace and conflict studies. The critique has even produced an alternative approach based on local voices and participatory methods, where peace is understood as a subjective category. Still, alternatives have not been successful in translating contextual knowledge into meaningful policies. By relying on the ‘local turn’ and the Balkan Peace Index, the article tries to answer whe…
Upholding Hierarchies of Knowledge Production: Mundane Obstacles to Global International Relations
Debates about global international relations (IR) have been ongoing for over a decade, yet academic practice in meaningfully cooperating with Global Southern scholars has changed little. Against the backdrop of growing scholarly concerns about global inequality in knowledge production, this forum takes stock of the search for global IR and examines the academic practices and structures that hinder its progress. The contributions highlight numerou…
Peace and Security in the Western Balkans: A Local Perspective
To romanticise or not to romanticise the local: Local agency and peacebuilding in the Balkans
Over the last decade there has been increasing attention within peace and conflict studies on the so-called ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding where the role of local actors, their agency and their relationship to international actors is strongly emphasised. Still, even with widespread academic optimism about the emancipatory potential of the local, strong caveats of ‘not romanticising the local’ are constantly repeated. By looking at the Balkan count…
How many truths are there? Reconciliation and agonistic dialogue in the former Yugoslavia
In this paper, we offer a possible interpretation of reconciliation in the former Yugoslav area. In a conflicting past and not-reconciled region, it is presumed that the truth should be the main pillar of reconciliation. However, according to our empirical analysis of 146 reconciliation projects implemented in the period between 2002 and 2015, there are many interpretations of truths in the region which are opposed to each other. These interpreta…
Introduction: Contentious Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe
This article belongs to a forthcoming special cluster, “Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe” guest-edited by Nemanja Džuverovic, Julia Rone and Tom Junes
Belgrade to Belgradians, Not Foreign Capitalists”: International Statebuilding, Contentious Politics, and New Forms of Political Representation in Serbia
This article belongs to a forthcoming special cluster, “Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe” guest-edited by Nemanja Džuverovic, Julia Rone and Tom Junes. One of the main criticisms concerning the process of post-conflict transition in Serbia has been the lack of context sensitivity and participation of the local population in the decision-making process, especially regarding the most important issues that were…
Neoliberal co-optation, power relations and informality in the Balkan International Relations profession
The article attempts to assess the importance of informal networks in achieving internationally recognised academic standards set in four Balkan countries by the reform of higher education institutions and the International Relations (IR) profession in particular. Starting from the core-periphery division of the Global IR, the authors are examining the results of these reforms by focusing on the neoliberalisation of the university and the profess…
Contextualization of the Local: A Predisposition of Former Yugoslav States to Liberal Peace
The critical literature on peacebuilding has mainly addressed the local and its agency in the post-conflict phase while the nexus between context occurring prior to the implementation of the liberal peace agenda and subsequent hybridization of the local and the international has largely been overlooked. Accordingly, this text discusses the idea that success of any peacebuilding project is also dependent on political, economic or social circumstan…
Why local voices matter. Participation of local researchers in the liberal peace debate
Most of the critical peace literature has put 'a local turn' as an important aspect of a paradigm shift in liberal peacebuilding, both in academic and practice-oriented terms. Although most of the made criticism is valid, it is still being disputed by Western academics with their epistemologies, ontologies and methodologies. The voice of researchers who live in post-conflict or conflict-affected societies is still very much restricted by structur…
Peacebuilding or ‘Peacedelaying’: Social Exclusion of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Post-war Serbia
Since the end of Kosovo war (1999), peacebuilding efforts of local and international actors in Serbia have been mainly focused on improving the socioeconomic situation. The liberal peace administrated in Serbia implied, among other things, the country transformation towards a more open and deregulated model of economy, and inevitably led to the ‘commodification of welfare’ [Pugh, M. (2009). Towards life welfare. In E. Newman, R. Paris, & O. Richm…
Universities and Conflict: The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding and Resistance
Inequality–Conflict Research Beyond Neo-Liberal Discourse
This year represents an important moment in peace research. It was 50 years ago when the Journal of Peace Research (JPR) was established and gave crucial impetus for the development of peace research. Under the leadership and guidance of its founder Johan Galtung, the JPR represented a European response to the American conflict analysis approach that neglected the “positive” element in peace studies. Thus, an anniversary of the JPR presents an id…
Universities and Conflict: The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding and Resistance
Belgrade to Belgradians, Not Foreign Capitalists”: International Statebuilding, Contentious Politics, and New Forms of Political Representation in Serbia
This article belongs to a forthcoming special cluster, “Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe” guest-edited by Nemanja Džuverovic, Julia Rone and Tom Junes. One of the main criticisms concerning the process of post-conflict transition in Serbia has been the lack of context sensitivity and participation of the local population in the decision-making process, especially regarding the most important issues that were…
Why local voices matter. Participation of local researchers in the liberal peace debate
Most of the critical peace literature has put 'a local turn' as an important aspect of a paradigm shift in liberal peacebuilding, both in academic and practice-oriented terms. Although most of the made criticism is valid, it is still being disputed by Western academics with their epistemologies, ontologies and methodologies. The voice of researchers who live in post-conflict or conflict-affected societies is still very much restricted by structur…
To romanticise or not to romanticise the local: Local agency and peacebuilding in the Balkans
Over the last decade there has been increasing attention within peace and conflict studies on the so-called ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding where the role of local actors, their agency and their relationship to international actors is strongly emphasised. Still, even with widespread academic optimism about the emancipatory potential of the local, strong caveats of ‘not romanticising the local’ are constantly repeated. By looking at the Balkan count…
Peacebuilding or ‘Peacedelaying’: Social Exclusion of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Post-war Serbia
Since the end of Kosovo war (1999), peacebuilding efforts of local and international actors in Serbia have been mainly focused on improving the socioeconomic situation. The liberal peace administrated in Serbia implied, among other things, the country transformation towards a more open and deregulated model of economy, and inevitably led to the ‘commodification of welfare’ [Pugh, M. (2009). Towards life welfare. In E. Newman, R. Paris, & O. Richm…
Upholding Hierarchies of Knowledge Production: Mundane Obstacles to Global International Relations
Debates about global international relations (IR) have been ongoing for over a decade, yet academic practice in meaningfully cooperating with Global Southern scholars has changed little. Against the backdrop of growing scholarly concerns about global inequality in knowledge production, this forum takes stock of the search for global IR and examines the academic practices and structures that hinder its progress. The contributions highlight numerou…
Neoliberal co-optation, power relations and informality in the Balkan International Relations profession
The article attempts to assess the importance of informal networks in achieving internationally recognised academic standards set in four Balkan countries by the reform of higher education institutions and the International Relations (IR) profession in particular. Starting from the core-periphery division of the Global IR, the authors are examining the results of these reforms by focusing on the neoliberalisation of the university and the profess…
Contextualization of the Local: A Predisposition of Former Yugoslav States to Liberal Peace
The critical literature on peacebuilding has mainly addressed the local and its agency in the post-conflict phase while the nexus between context occurring prior to the implementation of the liberal peace agenda and subsequent hybridization of the local and the international has largely been overlooked. Accordingly, this text discusses the idea that success of any peacebuilding project is also dependent on political, economic or social circumstan…
Inequality–Conflict Research Beyond Neo-Liberal Discourse
This year represents an important moment in peace research. It was 50 years ago when the Journal of Peace Research (JPR) was established and gave crucial impetus for the development of peace research. Under the leadership and guidance of its founder Johan Galtung, the JPR represented a European response to the American conflict analysis approach that neglected the “positive” element in peace studies. Thus, an anniversary of the JPR presents an id…
Peacebuilding or ‘Peacedelaying’: Social Exclusion of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Post-war Serbia
Since the end of Kosovo war (1999), peacebuilding efforts of local and international actors in Serbia have been mainly focused on improving the socioeconomic situation. The liberal peace administrated in Serbia implied, among other things, the country transformation towards a more open and deregulated model of economy, and inevitably led to the ‘commodification of welfare’ [Pugh, M. (2009). Towards life welfare. In E. Newman, R. Paris, & O. Richm…
Universities and Conflict: The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding and Resistance
Why local voices matter. Participation of local researchers in the liberal peace debate
Most of the critical peace literature has put 'a local turn' as an important aspect of a paradigm shift in liberal peacebuilding, both in academic and practice-oriented terms. Although most of the made criticism is valid, it is still being disputed by Western academics with their epistemologies, ontologies and methodologies. The voice of researchers who live in post-conflict or conflict-affected societies is still very much restricted by structur…
Contextualization of the Local: A Predisposition of Former Yugoslav States to Liberal Peace
The critical literature on peacebuilding has mainly addressed the local and its agency in the post-conflict phase while the nexus between context occurring prior to the implementation of the liberal peace agenda and subsequent hybridization of the local and the international has largely been overlooked. Accordingly, this text discusses the idea that success of any peacebuilding project is also dependent on political, economic or social circumstan…
How many truths are there? Reconciliation and agonistic dialogue in the former Yugoslavia
In this paper, we offer a possible interpretation of reconciliation in the former Yugoslav area. In a conflicting past and not-reconciled region, it is presumed that the truth should be the main pillar of reconciliation. However, according to our empirical analysis of 146 reconciliation projects implemented in the period between 2002 and 2015, there are many interpretations of truths in the region which are opposed to each other. These interpreta…
Introduction: Contentious Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe
This article belongs to a forthcoming special cluster, “Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe” guest-edited by Nemanja Džuverovic, Julia Rone and Tom Junes
Belgrade to Belgradians, Not Foreign Capitalists”: International Statebuilding, Contentious Politics, and New Forms of Political Representation in Serbia
This article belongs to a forthcoming special cluster, “Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe” guest-edited by Nemanja Džuverovic, Julia Rone and Tom Junes. One of the main criticisms concerning the process of post-conflict transition in Serbia has been the lack of context sensitivity and participation of the local population in the decision-making process, especially regarding the most important issues that were…
Neoliberal co-optation, power relations and informality in the Balkan International Relations profession
The article attempts to assess the importance of informal networks in achieving internationally recognised academic standards set in four Balkan countries by the reform of higher education institutions and the International Relations (IR) profession in particular. Starting from the core-periphery division of the Global IR, the authors are examining the results of these reforms by focusing on the neoliberalisation of the university and the profess…
To romanticise or not to romanticise the local: Local agency and peacebuilding in the Balkans
Over the last decade there has been increasing attention within peace and conflict studies on the so-called ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding where the role of local actors, their agency and their relationship to international actors is strongly emphasised. Still, even with widespread academic optimism about the emancipatory potential of the local, strong caveats of ‘not romanticising the local’ are constantly repeated. By looking at the Balkan count…
Peace and Security in the Western Balkans: A Local Perspective
Local Turn in Knowledge Production About Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of the Balkan Peace Index
The notion that peace can be measured has been heavily criticised in peace and conflict studies. The critique has even produced an alternative approach based on local voices and participatory methods, where peace is understood as a subjective category. Still, alternatives have not been successful in translating contextual knowledge into meaningful policies. By relying on the ‘local turn’ and the Balkan Peace Index, the article tries to answer whe…
Upholding Hierarchies of Knowledge Production: Mundane Obstacles to Global International Relations
Debates about global international relations (IR) have been ongoing for over a decade, yet academic practice in meaningfully cooperating with Global Southern scholars has changed little. Against the backdrop of growing scholarly concerns about global inequality in knowledge production, this forum takes stock of the search for global IR and examines the academic practices and structures that hinder its progress. The contributions highlight numerou…
Caught in the middle: Local researchers’ experience of mundane ethical harms in crisis settings
Most literature on research ethics originates from the perspectives of international researchers and, to a lesser extent, research subjects. This article goes beyond the prevailing understanding of ethical misconduct as a failure to secure informed consent, data breaches, coercion, or misuse of data. Instead, it seeks to develop the notion of ‘mundane ethical harms’ in conflict- and disaster-affected research, which are rooted in and shaped by th…
Building an international relations journal from scratch and from the margins: The case of Journal of Regional Security
This article analyzes the path of establishment of the Journal of Regional Security (JRS), an open-access journal which was built from scratch by a group of scholars interested in security and peace in the Western Balkans. The article shows that a successful building of an International Relations journal from scratch on the semiperiphery requires not only long-term commitment with slow and uncertain payoffs but also a lot of creativity and flexib…
In Defence of Europe: Pro-Ukraine activism and civil society mobilisation across Central and Southeast Europe
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (11 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · International relations (5 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (5 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (4 works)