Vladimir Ajzenhamer graduated at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade(2008), where he defended his master thesis"The Three Faces of Islam- comparative analysis of the political system of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran"(2010). He is writing his doctoral dissertation on the subject of Turkish foreign policy. Since 2009 he was engaged as an associate of the Center for Asian and Far East Studies, at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. Since 2010, he started working as assistant-demonstrator on the Regional studies of Asia MA program, at the same faculty. For the past two years he is working as assistant at Faculty of Security Studies. His main elds of interest are Geopolitics of the Middle East and the Balkans, Islamic studies, Oriental studies, Religious extremism etc. He is the author of numerous scientic papers, and co­author of a book on modern geopolitical perspectives. Prof. Dr. Xhabir Hamiti, is a lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic studies in Prishtina is a researcher and analyst of Islam studies, referring in many local and International conferences on this topic. He is author of numerous books and articles on Islam culture and Islam studies in general. He is known as an activ intelectual calling for civic harmony, tolerance and joint cooperation between all religious communities. Since 2003 Hamiti is, while during the period 2008-2013, he has been an acting President of the Assembly at the Kosovo Islamic Union(BIK). He is a co-editor of the scientic islam journal”Hikma” published by the University of Osnabruck in Germany. Arjan Dyrmishi is a senior researcher and the head of the Center for European and Security Studies in the Institute for Democracy and Mediation in Tirana, Albania. Before joining the Institute he held different positions in Albanian government, including the Prime Minister's ofce, the Ministry of Defence and the National Intelligence Service. Arjan holds a Master in Political Sciences from the University if Siena, Italy. His research interests include security, international relations, democratisation, political parties and European Union. Shpend Kursani, is an External Senior Researcher at the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies – KCSS and a Member of Assembly at the Prishtina Council on Foreign Relations – PCFR. He is a Founder and Member of the Steering Committee at the Balkan Think Tense- BTT. He is also an adjunct lecturer in the eld of International Relations at the University College Universum. Shpend has previously(2011-2013) been a Senior Researcher at the Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development- KIPRED, where he published a number of policy analysis on political development of Kosovo and Kosovo's relations with Serbia and other international actors. Shpend has pursued his Masters degree at the University of Cambridge(2010-2011) where he earned his M.Phil. degree in International Relations with distinctions on his thesis topic“Using Soft Power: The EU's Ability to Inuence the Domestic and Foreign Policies of the States of the Western Balkans. Shpend is doing a research study on this topic for KCSS, and will present some issues at the conference.