Institutskolloquium: Perspectives of Crisis Monitoring: Media Analysis

Nenad Fišer has been working as Research Officer at the Prosecutor’s office of the <link http: www.icty.org>United Nations Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague since 1995. Prior to the Balkan war in 1992, he was Professor of Far East Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo and in 1993/94 he was teaching at the Humanistic University in Utrecht, NL.

Nenad Fišer regularly shares his expertise and personal experience with the Balkan conflicts and international justice on the <link http: www.peaceboat.org english>Peace Boat. On this summer’s Peace Boat Voyage, Master students of our Institute had several discussions and seminars with him on the work of the ICTY and propaganda.
In addition to his main vocation, he has been pursuing a variety of scientific interests. These include e.g. international justice and socio-cultural transformations, post-modernism and contemporary consumer society as well as Internet, open sources and computer technologies in the process of information gathering and its analysis.
He recently published ‘The New Media, Modern Warfare, Mind-Engineering and New Propaganda Paradigms’ in Dojcinovic (ed.) Propaganda, War Crime Trials and International Law (Routledge: 2011). For his work and dedication, Nenad Fišer was awarded with the UN plaque ‘10 years in service of Justice’.