Rade Rajkovcevski

Associate Professor in Policing and Crisis Management and Vice-Dean for International Cooperation in the Faculty of Security in Skopje, St. Kliment Ohridski University from Bitola. He is graduated military officer at the Military Academy in Skopje (2002). Prior to his academic career which began in 2006, his work experience was associated to working in army, civil protection and security. He defended the Master’s thesis on national security policy and conflict prevention (2010) and his doctoral dissertation is related to the development and challenges of the European police cooperation (2013). He has references as Researcher in the project COMPOSITE-Comparative Police Studies in the EU (FP7 Security, 2010-2014); Researcher on identification of cases of Trafficking on human beings and gender based violence within mixed migrants flows within project SAFFER-Shelters and Access for Empowerment and Risk Reduction (MARRI Regional Center, 2017), National Short-Term Expert in GIZ’s project for illicit cash transfer (2018) and Consultant of UK’s Moonshoot CVE on governmental processes for countering violent extremism in Republic of Macedonia. In addition, he has references as technical expert of the City of Skopje in two European Commission DG ECHO’s projects dedicated to the civil protection and humanitarian assistance (ACHELOUS-Action of Contrast to Hydraulic Emergency in Local Urban Site [2014-2015] and EPICURO-European Partnership for Innovative Cities within an Urban Resilience Outlook [2017-2019]) and Management Committee (MC) Member in COST Action CA18109: AGITHAR Project (Accelerating Global science In Tsunami HAzard and Risk analysis [2019-2023]) Since 2017, he is member of the Board of Trustee of “The Balkan Forum” regional non-governmental initiative. Since 2018, he is Consultant within cross-sectoral Working Group of the Municipality of Centar (City of Skopje’s downtown municipality) for filling the UNISDR’s Disaster resilience scorecard for cities. Same year, he became Member of the Club of disseminators for International Humanitarian Law of the Red Cross of the Republic of Macedonia. Since 2019, he is National Representative of the Project Development Working Group of the Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Initiative for South-East Europe (DPPI SEE). Prof. Rajkovcevski is reviewer of the Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group’s journal (Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy), De Gruyter’s Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (JHSEM) and other journals in Croatia, Poland, Columbia and other countries, focused on policing, disaster and emergency management, and humanitarian action. Areas of expertise: crisis management, civil protection, migrations, policing, and security policy.