Dr. Iva Vukusic is an Assistant Professor in International History at Utrecht University, and a
Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. She is a
historian and a genocide scholar, and her work is on irregular armed groups, genocide, mass
violence and transitional justice, especially criminal accountability. Before coming to The Hague
in 2009, she spent three years in Sarajevo, where she worked as a researcher and analyst at the
Special Department for War Crimes at the Office of the Prosecutor. She is a frequent
contributor to public debates on war crimes and accountability, and has appeared on CNN and the
BBC; in the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, Liberation, Der Spiegel, de Volkskrant,
NRC, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, etc. Her first book Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence was published in September 2022 in the
Contemporary Security Studies at Routledge and is now being translated into
Croatian/Serbian/Bosnian for publication. Iva is also one of the editors of the CEU Press series
“Perpetrators of Organized Violence: Eastern, Central and South-Eastern Europe”. Most
recently, Iva has been providing analysis and advice to different stakeholders on accountability
for crimes in Ukraine.