Orli Fridman

Dr. Orli Fridman is the Academic director of the SIT study abroad program in the Balkans (Peace and Conflict Studies in Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo) and a lecturer at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK) where she heads the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CFCCS) at Singidunum University.

Dr. Fridman received her Ph.D. at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (SCAR) at George Mason University (2006). Her interdisciplinary research interests focus on the internal dynamics of societies in conflict, Memory work and Memory Activism in and after conflict, the role of Social Memory studies in teaching and researching post-conflict transformation and critical approaches encounters of groups in conflict. 

Since 1994, Dr. Fridman has been involved in political education. She was trained as a facilitator for groups in conflict and worked with groups from Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, and the successor states of the former Yugoslavia. Her most recent publications include: "Alternative calendars and memory work in Serbia: anti-war activism after Milošević" (Memory Studies 8, 2015); "Structured Encounters in Post-Conflict/Post-Yugoslav Days: Visiting Belgrade and Prishtina" (Civil Society and Transitional Justice in the Balkans, 2013); "It Was Like Fighting a War with Our Own People: Anti-War Activism in Serbia during the 1990's'" (Nationalities Papers 39, 2011).