Dijana Mujkanović is a PhD Candidate at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. She has been involved with the Ford Insititute since 2017, primarily conducting research on the prevention of genocide and mass attrocities. Ms. Mujkanović holds an M.A. in Public Policy with a specialization in Conflict Resolution and Mediation from Tel Aviv University and a B.A. in Political Science and Global Studies from North Central College. Her research centers around intergroup contact and ethnic conflict, migration, and ethnonationalism. Her dissertation “Conflict Prevention and Transformation: A Study of the Effects of Contact Between Ethnic Groups in Israel and Bosnia and Herzegovina” has earned her a David L. Boren Fellowship from the Institute for International Education and the National Security Education Program, a Title VIII Scholarship from the American Councils for International Education, and a Peace Scholar Award from the United States Institute of Peace. Ms. Mujkanović is also pursuing a graduate certificate in Mediterranean Studies, which is a joint initiative of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the European Studies Center, and the Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to her arrival to GSPIA, she has worked with various grassroots and international organizations in the sphere of civil and human rights advocacy, specifically as they relate to refugees, indigenous populations, and other marginalized communities. She spent seven years working in the Middle East, primarily Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Ms. Mujkanović is originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina, having arrived in the United States with her family as a war refugee in 1999.