Ramadan Ilazi is the head of research at the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies (KCSS), and in that capacity he also serves as a team leader of the working package on online and offline (de) radicalization in the framework of the EU research project PAVE (Preventing and Addressing Violent Extremism through Community Resilience in the Western Balkans and the MENA). Dani coordinates the research process in Kosovo, North Macedonia, Lebanon and Tunisia. He holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the School of Law and Government of the Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland, as well as a Master of Letters degree in peace and conflict studies from the St. Andrews University, Scotland as a Chevening scholar. He previously served as a deputy minister for European integration in the Kosovo government (2015-2016), and before that was an active member of the civil society in Kosovo, including co-founding the FOL Movement.