From 1972 to 1980, Dizdar worked as a curator at the Pounja Regional Museum in
Bihać. He organized collections, published contributions, and arranged exhibitions on the history of Pounja from 1878 to 1945. Pounja is a micro-region in Croatia based around the
Una River. Under the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1979, he published his Master's thesis ''The Workers' Movement in Pounja 1929–1941
and gained a doctorate with his dissertation "Chetnik War Crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1941 to 1945"''. Since 1980, he has worked at the Croatian Institute for History in Zagreb. == Recognition ==