Orli Friedman

Orli Friedman, Ph.D., serves as Associate Professor at Singidunum University's Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade, where she leads the Political Studies department. Founder and director of the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CCCCS), she has established the Summer School of Comparative Conflict Studies since 2008.

Her research spans Peace and Conflict Studies, Memory Studies, and Political Studies with focus on conflict transformation in divided societies. Key interests include transnational memory activism, post-conflict commemoration practices, and grassroots peacebuilding initiatives across Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, and the Balkans.

Professor Friedman's publications reveal consistent engagement with digital memory practices, post-Yugoslav memory politics, and non-state actors in transitional justice. Her work demonstrates interdisciplinary connections between political science, digital humanities, and peace studies, with increasing emphasis on social media's role in memory activism since 2015.

As co-chair of the COST Action CA20105 'Slow Memory' working group on Transformation of Conflict, she actively shapes international research agendas. Her leadership extends to the CCCCS research center and the annual Summer School program.

Professor Friedman teaches core courses including 'Peace & Conflict Studies: from the Balkans to the Middle East', 'Memory and Conflict: Remembering and Forgetting in Divided Societies', and 'Research Methods and Ethics'.