Victor Cebotari

Position: ESPP Fellow
Email address: victor.cebotari@governance.unimaas.nl

Educational Background
2004-2005: MA Degree in Social Policy Analysis, Catholic University of Leuven ((KUL), Belgium.

2002-2004: MA Degree in Project Management, National School for Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, Romania.

1998-2002: BA in Political Sciences, major in International Relations and European Politics, University of Bucharest, Romania

Research Interests
Ethnic Mobilisation, Inter-ethnic conflict, Governance and the European affairs

Research Discription
Ethnic mobilisation is undeniably one of the most intense forms of conflict in today’s European politics. For that reason, my PhD research seeks to analyse the socio-political determinants which impact the strength as well as the distribution of ethnic mobilisation movements among and across ethnic group minorities in Europe. The project is particularly designed to find out why some European ethnic groups mobilise more strongly in obtaining their self-determination goals while others do not. By ethnic mobilisation we understand the desire of ethnic minorities to seek greater levels of autonomy or to protest against the state authority.