{"id":47784,"date":"2024-11-20T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/?post_type=human_resources&#038;p=47784"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:00:59","slug":"samet-shabani","status":"publish","type":"human_resources","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/human_resources\/samet-shabani\/","title":{"rendered":"Samet Shabani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p><strong>Samet Shabani<\/strong> is Chief Executive of Association for civic activism and encouraging social responsibility HORIZON CIVITAS, based in Skopje, North Macedonia. His focus of work and research projects includes Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) and religious populism with a focus on Turkish influence in the Western Balkans. He has several coordinated projects and published products in the abovementioned topics in scope of the organization, as well as in individual capacity as expert, consultant, trainer and\/or activity coordinator to a number of domestic and international organizations, such as: Radicalization Awareness Network (RAN), OSCE, Council of Europe (CoE), IOM, British Council and GLOBSEC.<\/p>\n<p>Shabani\u2019s former working experience includes Research Fellow at Security and Foreign Policy Programe at Analytica Think-Tank, Deputy Head of Project Office at International Burch University, BiH and Project Consultant at ALFA Project Consultant &amp; Management. He has also served as Political Analyst Assistant to 2018 Referendum Observation Mission to North Macedonia by ODIHR\/OSCE.<\/p>\n<p>Samet&#8217;s academic background includes a Master&#8217;s degree (candidate) in Organizational Management from International Burch University, BiH and a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Political Science and International Relations from Istanbul University, Turkey. His former fellowships include: International Visitors and Leadership Program (IVLP) on P\/CVE and REMVE by U.S State Department; Advanced Summer Programme: Terrorism, Counter-terrorism and the Rule of Law by International Centre for Counter-Terrorism and T.C.M Asser Institute in Netherlands; Sustainable Public Management in Malm\u00f6 University by Swedish Academy for Young Professionals (SAYP); School of Public Policy by Council of Europe; School for Politics by Presidency of North Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p>He has been recognized for his work with awards such as the IVLP Impact Award &#8220;For Dialogue, Against Extremism!&#8221; from the U.S. Department of State and the Best Idea at campaign #IfItIsUpToMe from the OSCE Mission to Skopje.<\/p>\n<p>Samet is a native Albanian and Macedonian speaker, fluent in English and Turkish, and proficient in Bosnian and French.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":47785,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"program":[23],"human_resource_role":[99],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/human_resources\/47784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/human_resources"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/human_resources"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=47784"},{"taxonomy":"human_resource_role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/human_resource_role?post=47784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}