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Dr. Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic

Research Assistant Professor (School of Religion)

 halilom@tcd.ie

 


Biography

Maja is Assistant Research Professor at the School of Religion, Theology and Peace studies in Trinity College Dublin and radicalisation expert for Western Balkans as part of Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN). She is the coordinator of GEMS (Games as Multi-layered Security Threat) project. GEMS is a Horizon Europe funded project that commenced in September 2023. Prior to GEMS project Maja was a partner and WP leader (WP covering theory, methodology and ethics) on PAVE project. PAVE (Preventing and Addressing Violent Extremism through Community Resilience in the Western Balkans and the MENA, 2020-2023) was Horizon 2020 funded project which tackled the global issue of radicalisation by examining community vulnerability and resilience. PAVE was based on a comparative assessment of local communities across seven case study countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Tunisia, Lebanon and Iraq). Prior to this Maja was a partner in PERICLES project. The PERICLES (Policy recommendation and improved communication tools for law enforcement and security agencies preventing violent radicalisation, 2017-2020) project"s overall aim was to develop a comprehensive approach to prevent and counter violent radicalisation and extremism via five practical tools. Prior to that Maja was PI on GATED project (GATED: Segregated education in post-conflict Bosnia and the possibilities of future conflicts in Europe), MSCA Global Fellowship where she spent two years at Sie Centre for International Security and Diplomacy at the University of Denver. Maja joined the School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies in 2015 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow after three years of working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Trinity College. She completed her PhD in 2013 in Trinity College Dublin in Department of Sociology. At present Maja's research focuses on radicalisation and violent extremism (ethnic, religious and far-right) in Europe and Western Balkans and segregated education in Bosnia and Herzegovina and youth radicalisation in the country. Maja teaches in the areas of sociology of peace and conflict, radicalisation and violent extremism, sociology of race and ethnicity and sociology of identity.

Research Tags

     ETHNIC-CONFLICT   international conflict   MIGRATION and CITIZENSHIP   Racism/Race Relations   Refugees   Religious Fundamentalism   Sociology   Sociology Education   transnational migration

Research Projects

 GATED: Segregated education in post-conflict Bosnia and the possibilities of future conflicts in Europe
 PERICLES

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
ESA European Sociological Association SAI Sociological Association of Ireland Trinity Centre for Post-Conflict Justice The Conflict Research Society (ENIEDA)European Network for Intercultural Education Activities, (RAN) Radicalisation Awareness Network, (ECPR) The European Consortium for Political Research, International Studies Association (ISA), European Society of Criminology (ESC)
Bosnian post-refugee transnationalism: a grey zone of 'potentiality' in, editor(s)Frederiksen, Martin and Harboe, Ida , Exploring the Grey Zones: Borders, Relations and Invisibilities in Eastern Europe, London , Anthem Press , 2015, [Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic , Review of The Bosnian Diaspora: Integration in Transnational Communities, by Valenta Marko and Sabrina P. Ramet , Slavonica, 18, (2), 2012, Review, PUBLISHED
Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, ''Settled in mobility' as a 'space of possibility': Bosnian post-refugee transnationalism as a response to the bio-politics of Irish interculturalism',, Translocations: Migration and Social Change, Special Issue on Integration, 6, (2), 2010, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
"Not like it used to be Bosnia" - Grounding Bosnian post-refugee transnationalism: the politicisation of nationalism, ethnic reification and religiosity in post-Dayton Bosnia' in, editor(s)Eleftherakis, G., Hannam, S., Kalyva, E. and Psychogios, A. , Infusing Research and Knowledge in South-East Europe, Thessaloniki, South East European Research Centre, 2009, [Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
'The "Bosnian project" in Ireland: A "vision of divisions"' in, editor(s)Fanning, Bryan , Immigration and Social Change in Republic of Ireland, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2007, [Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
'Diaspora or State-Sponsored Interculturalism?: The Zena Project and Bosnian Migrant Women in Ireland' in, editor(s)Ni Eigeartaigh, Aoileann, Howard, Kevin and Getty, David , Rethinking Diasporas: Hidden Narratives and Imagined Borders, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, [Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Halilovic Pastuovic Maja , After the Dayton Peace Agreement: Bosnian Post-Refugee Transnationalism , Palgrave Macmillan , Book, PUBLISHED
  

Halilovic-Pastuovic Maja , 'Bosnia and Herzegovina - Two Decades After Dayton', Denver Dialogues, Political Violence @ A Glance , University of Denver, 2017, -, Broadcast, PUBLISHED
Dominic Kudlacek, Laura Treskow, Brendan Marsh, Stephanie Fleischer, Matthew Phelps & Maja Halilovic Pastuovic, Gap analysis on counterradicalisation measures, PERICLES Project, 2017, Report, PUBLISHED
Dominic Kudlacek, Matthew Phelps, Stephanie Fleischer, Laura Treskow, Ehiaze Ehimen, Dianne van Hemert, Tom Hueting, Benjamin Kraus, Kamila Labuda, Fernando Miró Llinares, Gaëlle Lortal, Brendan Marsh, Rebeca Bautista Ortuño, Stephen Purcell, Maja Halilovic Pastuovic, Magda Rooze, Francisco Javier Castro Toledo, Daniel Wagner & Thomas Görgen, Prevention of radicalisation in selected European countries A comprehensive report of the state of the art in counter-radicalisation, PERICLES Project, 2017, Report, PUBLISHED
Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, 'Segregated education in the racial state of Bosnia 20 years after the Dayton Agreement', NDLP2015 Conference, University of Lodz, Poland, 12-14 April 2015, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, 'Bosnian Post-Refugee Diasporic Experiences: A Grey Zone of Potentiality', Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners, 6th Global Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 1 - 3 November 2014, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, 'Bosnian post-refugee transnationalism: a grey zone of 'potentiality'', Exploring the 'Grey Zones': Governance, conflict and (In)Security in Eastern Europe, Aarhus University, Denmark, 1-2 November 2013, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, "The ethno-racial state of Bosnia: politicitisation of nationalism and ethnic reification as consequences of Dayton Agreement", 1st International Balkan Congress: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and the Change, Suleyman Sah University, Istanbul, Turkey, 24-26 September 2012, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, "'The diaspora is coming back': the Bosnian response to Bosnian annual summer migrations home", Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism in Central and Eastern Europe: From theory to practice, Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies London, UK, 18-19 September 2010, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, '"Not like it used to be Bosnia" - Grounding Bosnian post-refugee transnationalism: the politicisation of nationalism, ethnic reification and religiosity in post-Dayton Bosnia', 4th South East European Doctoral Student Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 6-7 July 2009, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, 'Survival of the (un)fittest: Bosnian post-refugee transnationalism as a resistance strategy to Irish interculturalism and post-Dayton Bosnia', 1st Global Conference: Diaspora - Exploring Critical Issues, Mansfield College, Oxford, UK, 04-07 July 2008, Conference Paper, PRESENTED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
WP lead in Horizon 2020 consortium - PAVE project 2020-2023
WP lead in Horizon 2020 consortium - PERICLES project 2017-2020
Marie Curie Fellowship - GATED project 2016-2019
Irish Research Council Postgraduate Fellowship PhD