Ferenc PETRUSKA

Ferenc Petruska has been the head of Department of Defence Law and Administration since the summer of 2019 wherein he supervised the foundation of two research workgroups. He is actively supporting and involved in the work of Research Team of Religion and Security as well as its successor the Religion and Society Research Institute. He is also an agile supporter of research projects carried out in the field of religious and state security, administrative regulations and institutional frameworks by the Research Team of Defence Law, Administration and Governance. He holds advanced level language certificates both in military (NATO STANAG 3.3.3.3.) and legal English, hence he has been the editor of several study books as well as author of various papers published in English in the field of national defence regulation policies and canon law, too. He regularly attends international conferences as a speaker. Moreover he holds several classes in English for ERASMUS students visiting Hungary, also being actively involved in the lecturers’ mobility program of Erasmus+. At present he is the mentor of five officer cadets’ in their students science competition projects.

His primary professional goal is to deal with defence law and administration as well as with the phenomenon of religious extremism on high academic level getting his students be more involved in the theorethical and practical aspects of research work. Furthermore, among his professional objectives rests the expansion of educational modules within military higher education on defence law and administration, international humanitarian law and on security of religions. Similarly, expanding and deepening his research activity within his primary fields of academic interests stands on high position. However, his ultimate and most important goal is to provide a more prestigious international position for the findings of defence law and administration research projects from the Hungarian military higher education.

Besides his versatile academic and educational activities, Ferenc is also the head of the Honvéd Zrínyi Sport Association, and in his spare time he pursues the martial arts of jiu-jitsu, the Brasilian type.