Valery Perry
Valery Perry has worked in the Western Balkans since the late 1990s, conducting research and working for organizations including the Democratization Policy Council (DPC), the European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI), the Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG), the NATO Stabilization Force (SFOR), and several NGOs. From September 2017 – March 2019 she worked at the OSCE Mission to Serbia as Project Coordinator on a project to prevent and counter violent extremism, having previously worked at the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo as Deputy Director of the Education Department, and Deputy Director of the Human Dimension Department. She has consulted for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the UN Development Program, the Regional Cooperation Council, USAID, IMPAQ International, and other organizations. She attended public schools, and went on to receive a BA from the University of Rochester, an MA from Indiana University’s Russian and East European Institute, and a PhD from George Mason University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Valery has published numerous articles and book chapters, has spoken at conferences and policy events in the United States and throughout Europe, and has testified at the U.S. Congress. In 2019 a book she edited, Extremism and Violent Extremism in Serbia: 21-st Century Manifestations of an Historical Challenge, was published by Ibidem Press/Columbia University Press. In 2015, Statebuilding and Democratization in Bosnia and Herzegovina, co-edited with Soeren Keil, was published by Ashgate. Her first documentary film, Looking for Dayton, was screened at the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival in August 2020.
