Dr Klejda Mulaj

Klejda Mulaj is Associate Professor of International Relations, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

She served as Deputy-Head of the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy & Anthropology in the first two years of its existence (2022-2024).

Dr Mulaj studies political violence with particular reference to violence of war, crimes against humanity – genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes. She studies also nationalism, state formation, intervention, and postconflict rebuilding. Her latest work published in Contemporary Justice Review explores how the International Criminal Court may be rendered more effective in holding accountable masterminds of mass atrocities – with the view of enabling postconflict societies attain more justice. In addition, her recent work examines effects of genocide in its aftermath and has resulted in a volume published with Oxford University Press (2021) entitled Postgenocide: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Effects of Genocide. In other work she has analysed how violence of war contributes to the constitution of the political community, the result of which has been published in Review of International Studies (Cambridge University Press). Previously she carried out extensive work on the causes and consequences of war/s and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans in the setting of the disintegration of the former Federation of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, results of which have been published in various peer-reviewed journals and one monograph entitled Politics of Ethnic Cleansing (Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, 2010). Dr Mulaj is also editor and author of a volume entitled Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics (Hurst and Columbia University Press, 2010), which investigates conditions that give rise to VNSAs and the correlations between these actors and the environment in which they operate.

Professor Mulaj has taught at university level since 2001, and has supervised 20 PhD students.