Niké M. Wentholt

Profile

Niké Wentholt works as assistant professor at UvH. Her research and education focuss on human rights, transformative justice, and recognition – and it makes her extra happy when this concerns the Western Balkans. For the Dialogics of Justice-team she studies how people seek justice and recognition across four cases of Dutch institutional injustice.

Niké works together with societal partners to explore how our insights on recognition and transformative justice can help improve repair processes. These partners include the Ministry of Finance (child benefits scandal), Expertise Center Intercountry Adoption INEA, the Wetenschappelijk Onderzoeks- en Datacentrum (violence in youth care), and the Expertise Network Srebrenica.

Her PhD project (‘Overcoming History, Becoming European? Politics of the Past and EU Accession in Serbia and Bulgaria’) was fully funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). It included field research in Bulgaria and Serbia. For the OSCE she designed and conducted a study on the use of history by extremist right-wing and jihadist groups in Serbia.

She holds a Master of Science degree in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford and completed her undergraduate studies in History at the University of Groningen (cum laude).