Neophytos Loizides received his PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto in May 2005. He is currently a Lecturer in International Politics and Ethnic Conflict at Queen's University, Belfast. He has previously been a research fellow at the Belfer Center at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and he has taught at the Politics Department at Princeton University. He studies negotiations and conflict resolution in deeply divided societies and he is currently completing a British Academy funded project titled ‘Doves against hawks in the framing of peace policies and nationalist mobilization’. He has articles published or forthcoming in African Journal of International and Comparative Law, Electoral Studies, Etudes Helleniques/Hellenic Studies, Journal of Peace Research, International Studies Perspectives, Nationalities Papers, Middle Eastern Studies, Parliamentary Affairs, Security Dialogue and Southeast European Politics. He has also book chapters in I.B Tauris, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin and Palgrave. His new research projects focus on human rights and conflict resolution models for ‘settler’ vs. ‘indigenous’ people conflicts as well as strategies of using direct democracy (referendums) in peace processes. His conflict resolution model on refugees and settlers in Cyprus was cited in the Economist Magazine in September 04, 2008. A related study titled 'Negotiating the Right of Return' is forthcoming in Journal of Peace Research, September 2009.
Articles
Dilemmas of Justice and Reconciliation: Rwandans and the Gacaca Courts (with Amaka Megwalu), African Journal of International and Comparative Law (2010)
Following the 1994 genocide, several justice initiatives were implemented in Rwanda, including a tribunal established...
State Ideology and the Kurds in Turkey, Middle Eastern Studies (2010)
This article evaluates theories of nationalism by examining the formation of Kurdish nationalism in Turkey....
Negotiating the Right of Return (with Marcos Antoniades), Journal of Peace Research (2009)
Negotiating the right of return is a central issue in post-conflict societies aiming to resolve...
Religious Nationalism and Adaptation in Southeast Europe, Nationalities Papers (2009)
Relating nationalism to other ideologies or cultural values is one of the most enigmatic scholarly...
The presidential election in Cyprus, February 2008, Electoral Studies (2009)
A two-round presidential election was held in Cyprus on February 17 and February 24, 2008....
Contributions to Books
PRO: An Appraisal of the Functionality of Annan Plan V, Reunifying Cyprus: The Annan Plan and Beyond (2009)
With the majority of peace agreements facing implementation problems at a global scale it is...
The EU Challenge: A View from the Turkish Grand National Assembly (with Elif Ersin), Turkey and the European Union: Internal and External Challenge (2006)
Unpublished Papers
Delay in Truth Recovery for Missing Persons (with Iosif Kovras), Manuscript under review (2009)
The fate of missing persons is a central issue in post-conflict societies facing truth recovery...
Doves against Hawks: Symbolic Politics in Greece and the Macedonian Question (2009)
The article examines why issues of mainly symbolic significance often overshadow problems of potentially higher...