Tanya Domi
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Personal Details
Focus Areas: Prevention of atrocity crimes, Conflict related sexual violence, Transitional justice and accountability mechanisms, Human rights
Tanya Domi is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and is an affiliate faculty member of the Harriman Institute where she has taught in the Balkan Studies program since 2008. Prior to her faculty appointment at Columbia, Domi served in the United States Army for 15 years and later worked as a Congressional aide and military policy advisor to the late Congressman Frank McCloskey, a leading champion for U.S. intervention in the Bosnian war. She also worked internationally for more than a decade on issues related to democratic transitional development, including media development, human rights, and human trafficking. She has expanded her research to include genocide, conflict related sexual violence and prevention of atrocity crimes. Domi was seconded by the U.S. State Department to the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1996 where she served in various roles, including as Spokesperson and counsel to former Ambassadors Robert Frowick and Robert Barry. She has expanded her research to include genocide, conflict related sexual violence and prevention of atrocity crimes. Professor Domi is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the New Lines Institute for Policy and Strategy, Washington, D.C; Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Alliance for Peacebuilding, Washington.; President of the Advisory Board of the Post Conflict Research Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; and Senior Advisor for International Relations at the Institute for Strategic Analysis, University of Sarajevo.
Education
- MA, Columbia University
- BA, Central Michigan University, Political Science and Journalism, 1982
Honors & Awards
- Distinguished Military Graduate, ROTC, Central Michigan University, 1982
- Contributions to the Culture of Bosnia, a Jubilee Certificate of Appreciation presented by the Stetak Foundation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2021
In The Media
“I think the documentation of crimes in Ukraine outstrips anything that we’ve seen in the recent past,” says Tanya Domi, one of the contributors to the report.
Tanya Domi discussed comparisons between Ukraine and Bosnia, the prospects for prosecutions, and the role of the ICC and the UN.
"Though rape is one of the most commonly perpetrated war crimes, it is rarely considered by international courts," says Tanya Domi.
“What I'm deeply troubled by is that everybody just seems to think, ‘Oh well, we'll turn these words around and we're going to reverse the situation.’ And it's clear that Mr. Dodik is doubling down,” Tanya Domi comments on Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Regarding the scenario of Russia vetoing renewal of the EUFOR mandate in November as the German politician Christian Schmidt becomes the new international High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Tanya Domi says that the U.S. and Britain should already be thinking about how to prevent that scenario "not in a month" but "now."