Julianne Funk is a peace researcher-practitioner and currently a Research Fellow at the South-East Europe Programme of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Greece and Managing Editor of the journal Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. When not in the Balkans, she is based in Switzerland, where she taught at the University of Zurich. Earlier in her career, she worked at the Migration Policy Group in Brussels and in the field of refugee resettlement in Chicago, primarily with former Yugoslav immigrants. She has a PhD in social sciences and an MA in peace and conflict studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Her specialization is peacebuilding with a focus on faith-based initiatives and trauma-sensitive practices, with years of peace research and praxis in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Her newest research is about Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Kosovo and their local and international relations. She has published on political, diaspora and religious identities, public religiosity, trauma and healing, Bosnian Islam, socially engaged Buddhism, Mennonite conflict transformation, reconciliation, peace and conflict studies, coexistence and women’s spirituality. Her latest co-edited book is Healing and Peacebuilding after War: Transforming Trauma in Bosnia & Herzegovina (Routledge, 2020).

Migration-related publications
Bosnian Diaspora Experiences of Suživot or Traditional Coexistence: Bosanski Lonac, American
Melting Pot or Swiss Fondue? In Both Muslim and European. Diasporic and Migrant Identities of Bosnian Muslims, ed. Dž. Šuško, 150-164. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

Migration-related projects
MIGREC

Migration-related conferences
Cultural Trauma: theoretical perspectives, empirical evidence, somatic responses, University of the Aegean, Molyvos, Lesvos Island, Greece, 1-8 July 2017

Diasporic and Migrant Identities: Social, Cultural, Political, Religious and Spiritual Aspects, Institute for the Islamic Tradition of the Bosniaks, Sarajevo, 23-24 April 2015