Professor Neophytos Loizides

About

Neophytos Loizides has been a Professor in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent and since 2019 the Director of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC). He has previously taught at Queen’s University Belfast and Princeton University and held fellowships at the University of Essex and at Harvard. His research focuses on the comparative study of federalism and power-sharing in societies with deep ethnic and religious divisions, and in the study of conflict resolution designs that flow from the integration of citizen preferences and the broader public. He has been recently awarded an ERC advanced grant (PEACERETURN) that focuses on the conditions that facilitate peaceful voluntary return while he leads the INCLUSIVEPEACE project funded by an Open Research Area (ORA7) in collaboration with more than 20 partners from the UK, Japan, Canada and Kanaky (New Caledonia). He has also consulted various governmental bodies and international organizations including the Council of Europe and the Organization of American States and has contributed commentaries to international media such as the Guardian, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. Professor Loizides is a Senior Advisor of the Forum of Federations, Ottawa and member of the Greek-Turkish Forum.