Orli Fridman is the Academic Director of the School for International Training (SIT) Study Abroad program in the Balkans (Peace and Conflict Studies in Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo) and a lecturer at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), where she heads the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CFCCS). Her interdisciplinary research interests focus on the internal dynamics of societies in conflict, memory work and memory activism in societies in and after conflict, the role of social memory studies in teaching and researching conflict transformation, and critical approaches to encounters of groups in conflict.