Tatjana holds MA in Peace Studies from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade and is a certified mediator. She is a director of Nansen Dialogue Centre Serbia and an experienced trainer in the conflict transformation field. She facilitated, over the last 18 years, inter-ethnic dialogue seminars for teachers, ministries of education advisors and local authorities’ representatives in the Western Balkans, thus contributing to cross-border cooperation and reconciliation. Her trainings focus on Dialogue and Communication, Interactive Teaching Methodologies and Team work; Conflict Analysis Tools, Negotiation and Peace Mediation. Facilitating trainings for trainers with international groups (representatives of NGOs, RIGOs, INGOs, universities), in the UK, Norway, Russia, Georgia and in Turkey enriched her experience significantly. Her skills include creating programmes, planning long-term PB strategies and drafting policy papers. In Serbia, she is coordinating implementation of School mediation in multicultural communities accredited programme. School mediation as a conflict prevention and resolution mechanism is being implemented through school mediation clubs in multi-ethnic schools in South Serbia and in Vojvodina. 

Projects: Cross-border Intercultural Cooperation of Education Institutions from Serbia and from Croatia, 2017-2018; School Cooperation: Lillehammer – Bujanovac municipalities, funded by NMFA 2006-2013; Educational Institutions Building Peace, 2006-2009.

Tatjana is the author of several practice books on Dialogue and Education for Peace: Dialogue and Conflict Transformation, the Nansen Handbook for Trainers, 2018; Dialogue and conflict transformation, 2014; Education for Peace, Experiences from practice, 2013; School mediation in schools in Bujanovac, 2012;Resolution through Dialogue, 2008; Peace education for Peaceful Society, 2008.