On July 21, 2020, in the Ceremonial Hall of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, a doctoral dissertation on the topic “Partisan movement in Serbia 1941-1944” was defended by the associate of the Institute Nemanja Dević. The defense commission included academician Ljubodrag Dimić, prof. dr Mira Radojević and prof. Dr. Aleksandar Životić from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, as well as Dr. Kosta Nikolić and Dr. Bojan Dimitrijević from the Institute for Contemporary History.