Born in June 1973. He graduated at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences in November 1998. His thesis was awarded Student’s Prešern Award and later rewritten and published as a book “We, the others” (Škuc, 2001). He received his MA degree in April 2002 from the same faculty. In June 2005 he defended his PhD thesis “Intimate Citizenship: Personal Choices, Public Policies and Everyday Life of Gays and Lesbians He worked as a journalist at the Radio Slovenia from 1993 to 2000. From 1998 to 2001 he also worked as a volunteer for Association against Violent Communication. He has been working for the Peace Institute since 2000 as a researcher and co-editor of the annual Intolerance Monitor Report.
Since 2004 he is also a lecturer in gay and lesbian studies and sociology of families at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Since 2007 he is an editor of the GLBT magazine Narobe (Wrong).

Gay and lesbian studies, queer, sociology of families, intolerance, sexism, media studies, studies on masculinities.

• Homophobia in Schools in Eastern Europe (2011)
• Citizens in Diversity (2010)
• LGBT - Families: The New Minority? (2009)
• Informal reproductive work: trends in Slovenia and EU (2008)
• PRIME – Anti-Discrimination Training for Media and Equality (2007)
• Effects of Discrimination on Societal, Political and Social Inclusion of Young People in Slovenia: An Analysis on the Basis of Gender, Sexual Orientation and Ethnicity (2006)
• FOCUS – Fostering Caring Masculinities (2006)
• Family and Social Contexts of Gay and Lesbian Lifestyles in Slovenia and Proposals for Policy in The Field (2006)
• QUING: Quality in Gender+ Equality Policies (2006)
• Activation of Intimate Citizenship: the Everyday-Life of Gays and Lesbians in Some New EU Member States and their Legal Protection (2005)
• Gender Meets Reality: Exchange of Experiences, Methods and Strategies for Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Trainings in Different Policy Fields (2004)
• National Focal Point of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2004)
• The Peace Institute Forum (2001)
• Media Construction of Homosexual Identity (2001)
• Prospects for Gender Equality Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (1999)

Tel.: +386 1 234 7720, 234 7729
E-mail: roman.kuhar@mirovni-institut.si