Sant' Anna School for Advanced Studies
Tanja Dramac Jiries is a PhD candidate in the School for Advanced Studies Sant' Anna in Pisa, Italy, where she is focusing on recruitment and radicalization process of foreign fighters from the Balkans. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science (majoring in Journalism) from the University of Banja Luka and Masters Degree in Political Science from the Central European University in Budapest. For the purpose of her master thesis she conducted fieldwork in Srebrenica in order to understand the role of women lead NGOs in peace building.
She has worked for the Office of European Union Special Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUSR), for Permanent Mission of B&H to the United Nations in New York City, as well as for a number of grass-roots civil society organizations in the Balkans.