Post-War Pathways of Foreign Fighters from the Bosnian War (1992--1995)

This dataset is a part of project  798392 - MPP funded by Marie-Sklodowska Curie Actions Individual Fellowship, a scholarly grant awarded by the European Commission to Dr. Milos Popovic as the principal investigator (PI). In total, the dataset includes information on 95 individuals who fought in the Bosnian war (1991--1995) as foreign volunteers based on available online resources. It is by no means the universe of cases or a representative sample. The overarching aim of this research is to collect war memories for scientific and archival purposes. 

\noindent The dataset is the first to date to include information on the Greek and Russian foreign fighters who fought on the side of the Army of the Serb Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The dataset does not feature information on the former mujahideen fighters because there is little information on the individual fighters. The key resource used to gather information on the Greek volunteers is the massive investigative work of the XYZ contagion investigative work, which can be found at https://xyzcontagion.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/maria-lefteris-ethnos-tagmata-matosan-srebrenica/. Information on Russian foreign fighters comes mostly from two books published by former foreign fighters Mikhail Polikarpov and Oleg Valetskiy:

Валецкий, О. В. (1993). Волки белые. Сербский дневник русского добровольца (1993--1999), Грифон М;
Поликарпов, М. А. (2007). Сербский закат. Москва: Эксмо.

For data triangulation purposes, I also used a few online sources from Serbian forums as well as Soldier of Fortune issues (in Russian) for the period 1992-1995. In addition, Aziz Tafro's book Russian and Greek Henchmen in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina provided useful information on the deceased Russian volunteers. Finally, I relied on numerous articles by former foreign fighters as well as interviews that they gave to various news portals.