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Marko Hajdinjak - International Relations and Projects Coordinator

CURRICULUM VITAE

Date and place of birth:

22 October 1970, Ljubljana

Marital status:

Married

 

EDUCATION:

1994 - 1997:

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Major: Social Work

GPA: 8.7 / 10.0

1998 - 2000:

American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Bachelor of Arts in Southeast European Studies

Major: Southeast European Studies

Minor: Political Science and International Relations

GPA: 3.94 / 4.0

Five times on Dean's List (semester GPA above 3.8)

Four times on President's List (cumulative GPA above 3.8)

Valedictorian of the Class of 2000

2000 - 2001:

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Master of Arts in Nationalism Studies

GPA: 3.83 / 4.0

Master thesis: Yugoslavia - Dismantled and Plundered: The Tragic Senselessness of the War in Yugoslavia and the Myths that Concealed It

http://www.ceu.hu/nation/theses/hajdinjak0001.pdf

 

EMPLOYMENT:

1991 - 1993:

Interspar hypermarket, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Shop-assistant

1993 - 1996:

Ekipa (sport newspaper), Ljubljana, Slovenia

Reporter and columnist

1996 - 1997:

Newspaper for Criticism of Science (sociological periodical), Ljubljana, Slovenia

Book reviewer

2002 - 2003:

Center for the Study of Democracy, 1 Lazar Stanev street, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria, www.csd.bg

Research Fellow in European Program, specialized in Southeast European topics

2003 - present:

International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations (IMIR), Antim I st. 55, 1303 Sofia, Bulgaria, www.imir-bg.org

International Projects Coordinator

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:

1990 - 1994:

UN Clubs Association of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Promoting ideas formulated in the UN Charter among the school children in the form of out-of-curriculum classes.

Member of the organization's Executive Board

1993 - 1995:

Cultural Weekend for the Children from Bosnia, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Helping to organize cultural activities for children and youth – refugees from Bosnia

1995 - 1997:

"The Roma Project" at the Society for Volunteer and Preventive Work, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Working on the education of Roma children. Organizing lectures on Roma for non- Roma population with the goal of overcoming stereotypes and diminishing ethnic mistrust.

 

LANGUAGES:

Fluent in Slovene (native), in English, Bulgarian and Croatian-Bosnian-Serbian. Passive knowledge of Macedonian.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

  1. "It Has Nothing To Do With Me" in Undercurrents. Budapest, Central European University, 2000. http://www.ceu.hu/writing/Undercurrents2001.pdf

  2. Smuggling in Southeast Europe: The Yugoslav Wars and the Development of Regional Criminal Networks in the Balkans. Sofia: Center for the Study of Democracy, 2002. http://www.csd.bg/artShow.php?id=12854

  3. "The Background: Origins of Trans-Border Crime and Corruption in SEE" in Anti-Corruption in Southeast Europe: First Steps and Policies. Sofia: Southeast European Legal Development Initiative, 2002. http://www.csd.bg/artShow.php?id=13760

  4. "The Security Sector and Organized Crime in the Western Balkans" in Partners in Crime: The Risks of Symbiosis Between the Security Sector and Organized Crime in Southeast Europe. Sofia: Center for the Study of Democracy, 2004. http://www.csd.bg/artShow.php?id=2033

  5. "The New Bulgarian Law on Religious Communities: Solving or Creating Controversies?" in Legal Position of Churches and Religious Communities in South-Eastern Europe. Edited by Silvo Devetak, Liana Kalcina and Miroslav F. Polzer. Maribor: ISCOMET - Institute for Ethnic and Regional Studies, 2004. http://www.aso.zsi.at/attach/LegposreliginSEE.pdf

  6. "Slowenien: Ausländerfeindlichkeit als politischer Mainstream" (Slovenia: Xenophobia as Mainstream Politics) in Ost-West-Gegeninformationen, Nr. 3/2004, pp. 44-49.

  7. "Tolerantly Ethnic and Aggressively Civic?: Redefining the Definitions of Nationalism" in Studies on Nationalism from CEU. Edited by Mária M. Kovács and Petr Lom. Budapest: Central European University, 2004. http://www.ceu.hu/nation/yb/hajdinjak.pdf

  8. "The Root Cause of Instability in the Balkans: Ethnic Hatred or Trans-border Crime" in Root Causes of Instability and Violence in the Balkans. Edited by Athanasios Moulakis. Lugano: Institute for Mediterranean Studies, 2005.

  9. "Getting Away with Administrative Murder: Ethnic Cleansing in Slovenia" in Forced Ethnic Migrations on the Balkans – Consequences and Rebuilding of Societies. Edited by Ekaterina Popova and Marko Hajdinjak. Sofia: IMIR, 2006.

  10. "Don't Want to Live With Them, Can't Afford to Live Without Them: Albanian Labor Migration in Greece," paper presented at the conference Migration: Challenge for the City. Integration, Security and Quality of Life in the Mediterranean Area, Lugano: Institute for Mediterranean Studies, 2005. http://www.ism.unisi.ch/forummigrazioni06.pdf

  11. The Rifle Has the Devil Inside: Gun Culture in South Eastern Europe. (Co-author with Philip Gounev and team). Belgrade: South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC), 2006. http://www.seesac.org/reports/Gun%20Culture%20FINAL.pdf

  12. "Thou Shalt Not Take the Names Ethnic or Minority, And I Will Bless Thee: Political Participation of Minorities in Bulgaria" in Political Parties and Minority Participation, Skopje: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Office Macedonia, 2008, http://www.fes.org.mk/pdf/Political%20Parties%20and%20Minority%20Participation.pdf

  13. "Driving in the Wrong Direction: Paradoxes of the Slovenian Concept of Citizenship in the Light of the European Values" in Crossroads - the Macedonian Foreign Policy Journal, Skopje, Vol. I, No.4, April-October 2008. http://mfa.gov.mk//Upload/ContentManagement/Publication/CR-04%20%20FINALEN.pdf
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