Aleksandar Grizhev, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Military Academy "General Mihailo Apostolski" – Skopje and Head of the Department of Social and Human Sciences. His teaching and research focus is on security and defence studies, post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction, security sector reform (SSR), radicalization and violent extremism, cognitive operations and gender perspective in the armed forces and the broader security sector. He has operational experience from international missions, including participation in the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (2019–2021), as well as previous engagements in conflict and post-conflict environments. He regularly participates in international forums and is part of various projects and activities with national and international partners (NATO Science and Technology Organization, NATO Committee him Gender Perspective, OSCE, UN, RACVIAC, PfP Consortium). With a particular interest in the cultural and religious dimensions of operations, he researches building institutional resilience to hybrid threats, with a particular focus on FIMI, institutional coordination, public resistance to manipulative narratives, and ethical communication in the security sector.
