Dr. Lina Strupinskienė

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Lina holds a BA degree in Political Science (IIRPS VU), MA degree in Conflict studies and Human rights (Utrecht University) and has defended her doctoral dissertation in 2015 on the impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (IIRPS VU).

In 2010 she interned at the ICTY and was a part of the Leadership Research Team at the Office of the Prosecutor, where she worked on the case of the Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadžić.

Currently Lina works as the deputy director for studies at the IIRPS VU and teaches courses related to analysis of violent ethnic conflicts, peace studies and transitional justice. In addition, she is a member of Western Balkans Experts Pool at The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats in Helsinki. Her area of expertise is the Western Balkan region.

Membership of working groups, councils, etc. within Vilnius University and IIRPS VU

IIRPS VU Council; Department of International Relations; Politics of Global Cahllenges Study Programme Committee;

Research projects and grants

Researcher in a project “InvigoratEU: Invigorating Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy for a Resilient Europe“ (2024-2026), project funded by Horizon Europe.

The Impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia on Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2013), Research Council of Lithania, fieldwork grant.

Selected conference papers

1. The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference (2023), Charles University, Prague; organizing and chairing a conference panel session “The Art of Justice: Roles, Performance and Audience in Human Rights and Transitional Justice”; 2 papers presented – “Transitional Justice in Croatia after the EU Accession (together with Simona Vaškevičiūtė) and „Criminal Celebrities of the ICTY”.
2. 27th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), New York, USA (2023), paper presented “Perpetrator Support Networks: Life after Conviction at the ICTY”.
3. New Problems in International Criminal Law – Life after Conviction at ICTY organized by Coimbra University Network, Poitiers, France, (2021), paper presented “Rehabilitation of ICTY convicted war criminals: Early overview of the empirical reality”;
4. ECPR General Conference (2021), paper presented “New Problems in International Criminal Law – Life after Conviction at ICTY”;
5. ECPR General Conference (2020), Paper “ICTY and Grassroots Mobilization for Justice: Insights from Bosnia and Herzegovina” (more information);
6. “The Future of EU Enlargement and Partnership Policies: EU Actorness in South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Neighbourhood” (2020), Paper “Assessing Reconciliation in Croatia: Moving Forward or Backward?” (more information);
7. IPSA Conference “Diversity and Democratic Governance”, Sarajevo (2019), Paper “What’s ICTY got to do with it: Process tracing reconciliation in Prijedor, BiH” (more information);
8. Oxford Transitional Justice Research Center conference “Borders and Boundaries in Transitional Justice” (2014), Paper “Understanding reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina: between Pomirenje and Suživot“ (more information);
9. Annual RRPP conference “Social, Political and Economic Change in the Western Balkans”, Sarajevo (2012), Paper “Political Reconciliation: A Framework for Analysis” (more information).