Vladimir Petrović is a principal research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History in Belgrade. He graduated at the Department of Contemporary History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in comparative history from Central European University. He further specialized as a postdoctoral fellow at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. Additionally, he has taught at Central European University, Boston University, University of Amsterdam and Harvard University. He is the Head of the Innovation Center of the Institute for Contemporary History.

He has published studies on mass violence,

(Etničko čišćenje: geneza koncepta, Arhipelag 2019) and the role of historians in the legal confrontation with its legacy (The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise: Clio takes the Stand, Routledge, 2017). He also wrote about Yugoslav foreign policy during the Cold War (Jugoslavija stupa na Bliski Istok. Titova lična diplomatija, Institut za savremenu istoriju 2010). He wrote about sixty articles and chapters in studies in Serbian and English. He co-edited two collective volumes, as well as eight volumes of documents on the breakup of Yugoslavia.