Dr. Vladimir Petrović

Vladimir Petrović  is a permanent Senior Reseracher at the Institute for Contemporary History Belgrade and the head of its Digital Center.

He researches mass political violence and strategies of confrontation with its legacy. He graduated from Contemporary History (Faculty of Belgrade: BA and MPhil) and Comparative history of Central and Southeastern Europe (Central European University: MA and PhD), completing his postgraduate studies at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam. He taught at Boston University and was a recurrent visiting professor at Central European University.

Petrović's doctoral project, which started at CEU, is published as The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise: Clio takes the Stand (Routledge, 2017). The book examines the role of historians and social scientists as expert witnesses in some of the most dramatic legal encounters of the 20th century. Petrovic explores the intersection between history and law, both in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and in the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office (CFCCS keynote lecture).

He has served as Investigator at the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office, Serbia as Intern at the LRT OTP, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Den Haag, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and attempts to undo its legacy, as well as on the history of nonalignment during the Cold War and the collapse of Yugoslavia. He is currently working on the discursive history of mass violence.