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= Olivera Simić = Olivera Simić is an Associate Professor with the Griffith Law School, a Visiting Professor at the UN University for Peace (Costa Rica), and is Series Editor of the Transitional Justice Book Series for Springer SBM. She is an expert in international law, transitional justice, as well as gender and crime.

Early life and education
Olivera Simić was born in the former Yugoslavia in the 1970s and lived through the Yugoslav wars (1991-1999). Her personal experience of these wars greatly impacted her work. In 2014, she published a book named Surviving Peace, a Political Memoir in which she relates her war and post-war experience.

She completed an LLB from University of Niš Faculty of Law (Serbia), an LLM from Essex University (UK), a MA from UN University for Peace (Costa Rica) and a PhD from Melbourne Law School.

Career
Prior to undertaking her PhD, Olivera Simić worked as a legal consultant with several international organizations like the UNICEF and the OSCE.

Awards
Olivera Simić was nominated in 2013 for the Penny Pether Prize for Scholarship in Law, Literature and the Humanities, and won the Peace Women Award from Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF, Australian branch).

Selected publications

 * An Introduction to Transitional Justice, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
 * Surviving Peace : A Political Memoir, Spinifex Press, 2015.
 * Silenced victims of wartime sexual violence, Routledge, 2018.
 * The Arts of Transitional Justice, New York: Editorial Springer, 2014.
 * Transitional justice and civil society in the Balkans, Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.
 * Regulation of sexual conduct in UN peacekeeping operations, Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.