[4] During the 2000/01 academic year, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.[4] Since then, he has also attended London School of Economics and Political Science and seminars on the Holocaust in Israel.

[4] He defended his PhD thesis at the University of Zagreb in 2002, receiving, after the publication, the annual prize for young scientists in the fields of history and humanities.

[6] He has co-authored a history textbook for senior high school students[4] and has authored hundreds of articles published in daily newspapers such as Jutarnji list and Vjesnik.

[10] Tvrtko Jakovina is a prominent public critic of the violent right-wing Croatian nationalism, historical revisionism of World War II oriented towards unscientific positive reinterpretations of the Nazi puppet state Independent State of Croatia and absent or unscientific recognition of Ustaše genocide against Serbs, Jews, Roma and other crimes against their opponents.

[14] The initiative was signed by 73 European personalities including Jean-Claude Juncker, Carl Bildt, Slavoj Žižek and from Croatia alongside Jakovina also Miljenko Jergović, Vesna Pusić, Seid Serdarević and Željko Trkanjec.