Neophytos Loizides

Neophytos Loizides is Professor in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent. He has previously taught at Queen’s University Belfast 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. Professor Loizides is the author of The Politics of Majority Nationalism: Framing Peace, Stalemates, and Crises, Stanford Press (2015), Designing Peace: Cyprus and Institutional Innovations in Divided Societies, University of Pennsylvania Press (2016), and Mediating Power-Sharing, Routledge (2018 with Feargal Cochrane and Thibaud Bodson). He has also authored more than fifty academic articles and book chapters in the areas of forced displacement, nationalism and conflict regulation in deeply divided societies including most recently work published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Negotiation and Conflict Management and Peace Science. Professor Loizides has served as a consultant to various governments and international organizations including the Council of Europe and has contributed commentaries to international media such as the Guardian, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. As part of his impact activities, he has developed an open-access Mediations and Negotiations Training Program (the Café Diplomatico initiative) with the Department for the Promotion of Peace (Organisation of American States) and the Forum of Federations (Ottawa). Professor Loizides also leads the Inclusive Peace project funded by an Open Research Area (ORA7) in collaboration with the ESRC (UK), SSHRC (Canada), ANR (France/New Caledonia) and JSPS (Japan). He serves as member of the Greek-Turkish Forum and Senior Advisor to the Forum of Federations.