Neophytos Loizides

Neophytos Loizides is Professor in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Warwick. He has previously taught at Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Kent and Princeton University and held fellowships at the University of Essex, the University of Pennsylvania (Solomon Asch Centre) and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He currently leads the ERC/UKRI advanced grant PEACERETURN that focuses on the study of voluntary return across seven countries and the Inclusive Peace project on citizen preferences in power-sharing settlements funded by an Open Research Area (ORA7) in collaboration with the ESRC (UK), SSHRC (Canada), ANR (France/New Caledonia) and JSPS (Japan). His research focuses on political institution building within violently divided societies, power-sharing, and institutional mechanisms aiming to mitigate protracted conflict-induced displacements. Professor Loizides is the author of The Politics of Majority Nationalism: (Stanford, 2015) and Designing Peace (Upenn 2016) as well as more than forty academic articles and book chapters most recently published in Democratization, International Negotiations, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Professor Loizides is a Senior Advisor at the Forum of Federations, Ottawa and has regularly consulted various governmental bodies and international organizations including the Council of Europe and the Organization of American States. Besides the Conversation, Loizides has contributed commentaries to the Guardian, OpenDemocracy, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.