The Republic of Serbia

Dragan Popadić (Beograd, 1955) is a social psychologist, Professor at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.

His research area covers wide range of social psychological issues including political socialization, value orientations, ethnocentrism, social conflicts and violence, and works in these areas have been published in a number of domestic and international books and journals. He participated in creation of numerous programs aimed to develop non-violent communication and tolerance, and in introduction civic education in school curricula. He was involved in international projects dealing with regional research of youth and education for democracy as well as in national research projects about the impact of social transition on individuals and groups and forming new competences in changing society.

Since 2005 he has being engaged in the School Without Violence program, jointly implemented by the Ministry of Education and UNICEF in primary and secondary schools in Serbia, which resulted in developing an integrated school prevention program applied in almost three hundreds schools in Serbia and in extensive report on violence in schools in Serbia.

Zoran Pavlović, PhD, is a social psychologist and an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. His main scientific interests include the study of political behaviour, political socialisation and human values. He participated in several national and international projects, including the Global Kids Online. He has authored or co-authored a number of books, book chapters and articles in scientific journals, including the book, Violence in Serbian schools: An overview from 2006 to 2013, as a part of the UNICEF’s ‘School Without Violence’ prevention programme.

Dobrinka Kuzmanovic, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Media and Communication, in Belgrade and a researcher at Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia.  Dobrinka defended her PhD thesis on the topic of digital literacy among students in Serbia. Her research interests include youth technology use, learning with ICT, digital literacy, child safety online, relationship between online and offline vulnerability, digital violence among children and youth. She participated in several national and international research projects dedicated to children and youth: School without violence - towards safe and enabling environment for children, Stop digital violence, OECD/PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), Global Kids Online. 

Tijana Milosevic is a postdoctoral researcher at Dublin City University’s Anti-Bullying Centre, focusing on social media policies, digital media, internet governance and the implications for children’s wellbeing. She is the country team coordinator for the EU Kids Online network in Serbia and a member of the Norwegian EU Kids Online team. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. Tijana’s written a monograph on social media platforms’ anti-bullying interventions (Protecting Children Online? Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies, MIT Press 2018). She has also researched children’s privacy and the Internet of Things with the COST Action DigiLitEY collaborative project. Previously, she studied broader communication research topics (always from an interdisciplinary perspective), focusing on media coverage of the war in Iraq, US public diplomacy, climate change and copyright. Her works have appeared in the Journal of Children and Media, The International Journal of Communication and New Media & Society, among others. She holds a PhD in Communication from American University’s School of Communication; and an MA in Media and Public Affairs from the School of Media and Public Affairs, both in Washington DC, where she studied and worked for six years. She holds a BA in journalism and political science from the American University in Bulgaria.