Antonija Petričušić is an Associate Professor at the Chair of Sociology, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is a visiting professor and a member of the International Academic Council of the European Regional Master's Programme in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe.
In academic year 2022/23 she received the Fulbright Scholar grant for advanced research on consequences of conservative legal mobilization on women’s rights in Croatia and the United States and for university lecturing at the University of Minnesota Law School.
From 2018 to 2022 she served as an expert in the Council of Europe's Advisory Committee Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in respect of Croatia and as a member in the Croatian Ombudswoman’s Human Rights Council.
She received her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law at the University of Graz, Austria. She received her M.A. in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and M.A. in Human Rights and Democratization from the University of Sarajevo and the University of Bologna. She graduated in Law and Journalism at the University of Zagreb.
Antonija Petričušić was an initiator and a co-founder of the student-staff alliance ZA-Pravo, a gay-straight alliance that is bringing together students and staff at the University of Zagreb. She was coordinating the project Gender Mainstreaming at Universities (UNIGEM) at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in AY 2021/22 and was member of the Faculty of Law Working Group tasked with drafting the Faculty's first gender-based discrimination and sexual harassment rules and regulations. For her significant contribution to gender equality and social justice in Croatia in 2020 she was awarded the Fierce Women Award.
Her main scientific interests include rights of national minorities, ethno-religious nationalism, diversity management, gender equality, women's rights and women empowerment.
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Reproductive Rights as Human Rights
Women's Rights as Human Rights: Where Have We Arrived?
Equality Data Collection Practices in Croatia.
Unacceptability of artificial separation of social guarantees from the general concept of human rights
Equality Data Collection Practices in Croatia
Use of the language and script of national minorities at the territory of the local self- government units after the published results of the Census population
Financing the cultural autonomy of national minorities in Croatia and its clientist dysfunctions
Advocacy initiatives as initiators of changes in social policy and social work
Symbols that Unite the Ones are Symbols that Divide the Others
Council of Europe approach and activities to end homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
Development and Protection of LGBTIQA+ Rights
National Minority Women’s Political Participation in Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia
Dilemmas of political representation of persons belonging to national minorities in representative and executive bodies at the local level
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities as a Guarantee of the Right to Education in Minority Languages and Scripts
Activities on cpreventing sexual harassment and other forms of gender discrimination at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb following #nisamtražilamo movement
Constitutional protection of national minorities: countermajoritarian argument as protector of democratic values
The right of persons belonging to national minorities to access the media in the digital age: is the Advisory Committee's monitoring work catching up on the digitally transformed reality?
Implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia
The right to representation of persons belonging to national minorities in national parliaments
How to achieve a balance between business and private life in conditions of structural inequality between women and men?
Elections for Councils and Representatives of National Minorities
Represenation of Persons Belonging to National Minorities in the Representative bodies of Self-Government Units
Josip Kregar (1953. – 2020.)
Analysis of the Croatian minority policy: could it and should it be better?
Deviance
Sociology with the Introduction to the Sociology of Law
The Rejection of Reconciliation: Ivo Josipovic and the Challenges of Dealing with the Past in Post-Conflict Croatia
Slow Consolidation of European Values: Endangered Minority Rights after the Croatian Accession to the EU
Regulation of the election of councils and representatives of national minorities
Taking control over higher education and research in Hungary: a case study of hijacking the academic freedom and autonomy in an illiberal democracy
In Search of Multicultural Elements of the Croatian Minority Policy: Threatening Assimilation and Cultural Segregation
OSCE Graz Recommendations on Access to Justice and National Minorities and Compatibility of the Croatian Legislation with the New Instrument of International Law on the Rights of National Minorities
Political culture and national minorities in Croatia
Yet Again, the Nationalists and the Church Are Playing Hand in Hand in Croatia, This Time against ‘Gender Ideology’
Media Pluralism Monitor 2017 - Croatia
Media Pluralism Monitor 2016 - Croatia
Ivo Josipović’s Role in Post-Conflict Reconciliation: Former President’s Historical Consciousness that Lacked Legitimacy and Support in the Wider Society
( Quarter Century of the Croatian Minority Policy: Development, State of the Art, and Suggestions for Improvements
Contentious Politics in Transitional Societies: The Rise and (Partial) Success of the Conservative Religious-political Movement in Croatia
Gaining Political Power by Utilizing Opportunity Structures: An Analysis of the Conservative Religious-Political Movement in Croatia
The Impact of European Legislation in the Field fo Migration and its Upcoming Revision
Media Pluralism in Croatia: A Test Implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2015
Europeanisation of minority policy in Croatia: Limited outcomes of the second generation minority conditionality
Quarter Century of the Croatian Minority Policy: Development, State of the Art, and Suggestions for Improvements
Legal Protection Against Discrimination in Croatia
Institutions in charge of and practice of equality data collection in Croatia
The Alteration of Discourse Towards Refugees' and Migrants' Flow in Croatia: From Solidarity, Over Security and To Effective Security or Flexible Solidarity?
Importance of Equality Data Collection in Measuring and Quantifying the Extent of Discrimination and Inequality in Croatia
The Return of State Power to Media Policies: Conditioning Media Pluralism in Croatia
Interest Pressure Group and Legislation: Expansion of Veterans Welfare Legislation in Croatia
Effects of Europeanization on the rights of national minorities in Croatia: lessons learned and recommendations for future accession conditionality for the Western Balkans countries
Social Change through Law: Involvement in the Juridical Field as a Means for Pursuing the Religopolitical Social Movement’s Goals
Domestic Winners and Losers of the Europeanisation of Minority Policies: the Croatian Example
Religiopolitics Through Law: Use of Legal Norms and Institutions by the Croatian Conservative Social Movement
Non-Territorial Autonomy in Croatia
Symbols that divide: Controversy about interpretation of legal provisions on the right to use minority script in Vukovar
How to ensure the existence of “Others”: the elimination of institutional discrimination of national minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
How to strengthen and develop a multiethnic society and its values: Creating an Atmosphere of Mutual Understanding, Respect and Tolerance is a Responsibility of the Croatian Minority Policy
Separating the sheep from the goats
Assessing the Second Generation Conditionality: Minority Rights as the Component of EU Conditionality Policy for the Western Balkans
Creating an Atmosphere of Mutual Understanding, Respect and Tolerance in the Croatian Society as Legal and Political Postulate
The impact of the enlargement process on the development of a minority protection in Southeastern Europe
The Core International Human Rights Instruments
Introduction to Sociology
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Instruments of Minority Protection and their Application in South-eastern Europe Countries
Expanded accession conditionality : the European Union’s leverage on refugee return to Croatia
Manual on Human Rights with a Focus on Protecting the Rights of National Minorities: Manual for Participants at the Training on Human Rights Mechanisms, With an Emphasis on Minority Rights Protection
The second generation of human rights for the second class citizens
Integration of Diversity: How is the Integration of Minorities Conceptualized in the Croatian Minority Policy
International Legal Norms Prescribing the Right of Co-Official Status of National Minority Languages and Scripts
Expanded Accession Conditionality: the European Union’s Leverage on Refugee Return in Croatia
Assessing the Second Generation Conditionality: Minority Rights as the Component of EU Conditionality Policy for the Western Balkans
Catch-22 in the Chapter 23: Failure of Conditionality Policy in Ensuring the Representation of National Minority Members in Public Administrative Bodies
In the Name of the Family, Referendum and Sex Education
Exporting the Culture of Pluralism, Non-Discrimination and Tolerance: Long Way of the European Values to the External Borders of the Europe Union
Political Participation of National Minorities in Croatia: Representation Resulting in Political Integration or Clientelism
Democracy without Citizens: Inadequate Consolidation in Two Decades of the Western Balkans Democracy
Women in Media: Invisibility that Persists
The two sides of caring for the 'own' minority
Is Marriage a Human Right?
Do we Live in the Knowlege Society of the Society of Professions?
Civil Society: An Inevitable Partner in the Development of Local Communities in Young Democracies
Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: Significance and Implications fro Croatia and the Region
National Minority Councils - Institution of Questionable Legitimacy and Mostly Unachieved Competences
20 Years After 1991: The Tale of Two Generations
"Mionority Conditionality" in the Course of Croatian Accession to the European Union
Refuge Return: the Only Sustainable Return is an Open-End Return
EU Tailored-Made Conditionality as an Incentive for Change in the Western Balkans Post-Conflict Societies
(First) Twenty Years of National Minority Rights in Croatia: How to Assure Sustainability of Minority Policy?
Promotion of Civic Political Culture as an Important Factor of Minority Rights Protection and Development
Europeanisation of Minority Policy in Countries of South-Eastern Europe
Development of Civic Political Culture
From Cultural Authonomy to Intercultural Dialogue
Intercultural Dialogue as a Means of National Minority Cultural Autonomy Preservation
Western Balkans Democracy: Inadequate Political Participation and Immature Political Culture
Europeanisation of Minority Rights in Croatia: Already Done or Yet to Initiate?
The building of the civic political culture - long-term frame for acceptance and promotion of minority rights and policies in Croatia
Proposals for action: What the project findings indicate?
The Ljubljana guidelines on integration of diverse societies - a new trend of international minority standards: Promoting integration and cohesion in multi-ethnic societies
Introduction - Reconciliation in the Western Balkans: New Perspectives and Proposals
Ethno-Mobilisation and its Consequences in Croatia
Antidiscrimination Policy as a Suplementary Model of Protection of National Minorities
Balkan Media – between War Propaganda and Inter-ethnic Mediation
Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations: Significance and Implications fro Croatia and the Region
Minorities and Media in Croatia : Reaching the Mainstream and Avoiding Marginalisation
Recenzija knjige 'Ivan Markešić, ur.: Hrvati u BiH: ustavni položaj, kulturni razvoj i nacionalni identitet. Centar za demokraciju i pravo Miko Tripalo, 2010.'
Community od Indangered Values
Putting an End to Ethnic Political Engineering?
How to succesfully dismantle a structure of the society?
Integration of National Minorities Contributes to a Social Cohesion
European Union and the Rights of National Minorities
Balkan Mythomania
Elections for National Minority Councils and Representatives - Legality without Legitimacy
European Union Accession Process as a Value Export Mechanism
Majority needs to be taught on the rights of minorities
Europeanisation of Minority Rihts and the Role of Media in their Effective Promotion
Constitutional Challenges Ahead the EU Accession: Analysis of the Croatian and Turkish Constitutional Provisions that Require Harmonization with the Acquis Communautaire
Diversity Management: Tool for Successful Accommodation of Ethnic Heterogeneity in the Western Balkans Countries
Minorities and Media in Croatia : Reaching the Mainstream and Avoiding Marginalisation
(National Minority) Councils as Co-creators of the Local Polititics
Promoting Ethnic Pluralism in Croatia: Institutions, Participation and Representation
Croatian Political Parties and Participation of National Minorities
Copenhagen Criteria and the Impovement of Inter-ethnic Relations in Croatia
Building Institutions: Ethics and Corruption
Crime as a Business, Business as a Crime
International Network of Young Scientists dealing with Ethnic Reconciliation in the Western Balkans: an Initiative to Address System Incapacity of the SEE Scientific Area and to Contribute to the Reconciliation Processes
Book review "A European Perspective for the Western Balkans", edited by Hubert Isak [Vienna: Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2008. 341 pp. Softcover ISBN 978-3-7083-0306-2.
Recent Minority Legislation in Southeastern European Countries: Normative Developments and Still-Partial Implementation
Human Rights Conditionality in the Pre-Accession Period: the Case of Croatia
Nation-Building in Croatia and the Treatment of Minorities: Rights and Wrongs
The Role of Political Parties in Minority Participation in Croatia
EU expansion and the protection of national minorities
Country specific report: conflict settlement agreement Croatia
Country specific report on institutional mechanisms and democratic consolidation in Croatia
European integration and its effects on minority protection in South Eastern Europe
Minority Protection in South-East Europe – Lessons to be Learned
European Union's Foundamental Rights Policy
Croatia
National minorities in the Western Balkans countries – political social and cultural challenges for local and regional authorities
Empowerment of Individual under International Law
Institutions of Research and Tertiary Education in Central and South East Europe. Developments, Structures and Perspectives of these Institutions for their Integration into the European Higher Education and Research Area
Country Specific Report on Actors and Processes of Ethno-Mobilization, Violent Conflicts and Consequences: Croatia
Reforming the Civil Service in Croatia as the Precondition for the Public Administration Reform
Croatian Higher Education System
How far is Zagreb from Madrid: Institutional (In)capacity of Croatian Public Administration in EU Accession Process
Implementation of Minority Rights in the Western Balkan Countries
Minority Rights as the Component of the European Union’ s Conditionality Policy in the Western Balkans
Protection of the Rights of Minorities within the European Union
The Rifle has the Devil Inside: Gun Culture in South Eastern Europe
Pre-Accession Human Rights Record: Assessing the Scope of Conditionality in the Field of Human Rights Promotion and Protection in Croatia
Regional Cooperation in the Western Balkans - a Key to Integration into the European Union
Participation of national minorities in public life
Croatian in Community Programmes
Minority Protection as the Component of EU Conditionality Policy in Candidate Countries
International Standards for the Protection of Minorities within the European Union, the Council of Europe and the OSCE
Double standards for the Protection of Minorities in Member and Candidate States
The Rights of Minorities in International Law
Minority Rights in Candidate Countries as the Component of the European Union’ s Conditionality Policy
Access to Education, Training and Employment of Ethnic Minorities in the Western Balkans: Country Report Croatia
Wind of Change: The Croatian Government’ s Turn towards a Policy of Ethnic Reconciliation
Does the Unresolved Ethnic Conflict Always Constitute an Unacceptable Impediment for the EU Accession
Croatian Constitutional Law on the Rights of National Minorities
Slovenian Legislative System for Minority Protection: Different Rights for Old and New Minorities
Minority Protection as the Precondition for Accession of South East Europe into the European Union
No Man's Land. The Long Struggle for Property Rights of Australian Indigenous People
Waiting at Europe's Doorstep. Is the recent enlargement of the EU the last, or there is still room in the Union for new members?
Rebuilding Resorts in the Wake of War. Croatia strives to pump life back into its once-booming tourist industry
Implementation of Rights of Minorities in Croatia
Managing Ethnic Diversity in Croatia
Protection of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia: Legislative Framework, Mechanisms for Protection and Implementation of Minority Rights
Protection of Fundamental Rights and Liberties Violated by Civil Servants
Journalists as Victims in Post Communists Regimes
Systematic Rape - a Weapon of War in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
2021– 2022 Coordinator of the regional project "University and Gender Mainstreaming - UNIGEM" at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb.
2020 – 2022 External collaborator on the institutional research project of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in "Supported or conquered - predictors of the attitudes of Croatian citizens on sexual violenceand violations of sexual and reproductive rights of women".
2019 – 2023 Collaborator on the project of the Croatian Science Foundation "Regulation of prostitution in Croatia".
2018 – present Member of a research group “Identity, Race and Ethnicity in Constitutional Law” under the International Association of Constitutional Law.
2017 – 2018 Collaborator in the project “Reflecting ethnic heterogeneity andtolerance towards national minorities in legal education in South East Europe and Germany”, Europa-Institut of Saarland Univeristy / SouthEast European Law School Network / Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).
2016 - 2017 Collaborator in the project of institutional financing of scientific and artistic activities at the University of Zagreb in 2016. “Refugees in/through eyes of society elites”.
2015 – 2016 National Expert in the research project “Analysis and comparative review of equality data collection practices in the European Union”, Human European Consultancy, Bruxelles
2015 Collaborator in the project of institutional financing of scientific and artistic activities at the University of Zagreb in 2015 "Veterans' policies in Croatia and dynamics of veterans'self-organising in NGOs”.
2015 – 2016 Expert in the regional research project “Legal protection against discrimination in South East Europe”, Centre for South East European Law School (SEELS) / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
2014 – 2017 Collaborator in the project “Media Pluralism Monitor”, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, Italy.
2012 – 2013 Local Project Officer for Croatia in the joint EU and Council of Europe project "Promoting Human Rights and Minority Protection in South East Europe".
2009 – 2014 Research Assistant in the project of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sport “Institution building: ethics and corruption”.
2006 – 2008 Research Assistant in the FP6 project “Human and Minority Rights in the Life-Cycle of Ethnic Conflicts”, University of Graz, Austria.
2006 – 2007 Researcher in the project of the Austrian Ministry of Science “Institutions of Tertiary Education in Central and South East Europe: Developments, Structures and Perspectives of these Institutions for their Integration into the European Higher Education and Research Area”.
2006 Researcher in the project of the EU Agency European Training Foundation “Access to Education, Training and Employment of Ethnic Minorities in the Western Balkans”.
2005 – 2006 Research Assistant in the project “Perspectives of the EU integration”, Ministry of Science, Education and Sport; Zagreb, Croatia.
2003 – 2005 Junior researcher in the project ”Minority Rights Information System”, European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy.
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