Blanka Matkovich graduated history and journalism at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, where she also obtained Master of Science degree in international relations and national security. Later she completed an MPhil degree in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, where she was studying the war crimes and human rights violations committed by the Communist regime at the end and after the Second World War in Croatia and Slovenia. She is currently doing her Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick focusing on Croatian war veterans and their role in the Croatian society after the Homeland War (1991-1995).
