Citizen Preferences in the Design of Effective Peace Settlements
A research project hosted by the Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC) at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent. Funded by the United States Institute of Peace.
Professor Feargal Cochrane
Professor of International Conflict Analysis - Deputy Head of School and Director of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre
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Professor Feargal Cochrane joined the University of Kent in September 2012. He was previously Director of the Richardson Institute, a peace and conflict studies research centre at Lancaster University (2005-2012). Before this he was a Lecturer (1998-2004) & Senior Lecturer (2004-2012) in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University. Professor Cochrane has also held academic posts at the Centre for the Study of Conflict, University of Ulster (1996-1998) and at Queen’s University Belfast (1994-1995). Professor Cochrane has published widely in the area of political violence and conflict transformation in leading international journals and with prestigious academic publishing houses and has presented his research at numerous conferences and through keynote addresses.
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Professor Neophytos Loizides
Professor of International Conflict Analysis and Deputy Director of CARC
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Neophytos Loizides joined the School of Politics and International Relations at Kent in September 2011. He has authored two books and more than thirty academic articles and book chapters in the areas of nationalism, forced displacement and conflict regulation in deeply divided societies including most recently work published in the European Journal of Political Research, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Comparative Politics and the Journal of Refugee Studies. Dr Loizides received his PhD at the University of Toronto and held fellowships at the Belfer Centre at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Solomon Asch Centre at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his MA at the Central European University and a BA at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining Kent, he has been a Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, 2006-2011 and Princeton University, 2005-6. He has been the recipient of the 2016 Faculty of Social Sciences Research Prize at the University of Kent.
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Dr Edward Morgan-Jones
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics - Q-Step Co-ordinator for the School of Politics and International Relations
Edward Morgan-Jones joined the School of Politics and International Relations at Kent as Lecturer in Comparative Politics in 2009 and has been Senior Lecturer since 2014. He received his DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford in 2004 and before joining the School in 2009 was Research Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Keble College, University of Oxford. His research focuses broadly on comparative political institutions in both developed and emerging democracies and he has area expertise in Western and Eastern European and Russian politics. He has particular interests in constitutional choice and its consequences, semi-presidential and parliamentary government, cabinet composition, termination, early election calling and democratic representation and accountability. His research on these topics has been published in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research and Post-Soviet Affairs.
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Dr Laura Sudulich
Senior Lecturer in Politics
Laura Sudulich is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the School of Politics and International Relations of the University of Kent. She is also affiliated to the Centre d'étude de la vie politique (Cevipol) Université Libre de Bruxelles. During the academic year 2012-2013 she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. Dr Sudulich holds a PhD in Political Science from Trinity College Dublin. From October 2009 to September 2012 she worked at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) as a lecturer and post doctoral fellow, where she contributed to the Support and Opposition to Migration (SOM) project, funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Program. She taught a number of courses on New Technologies and Electoral Competition, Media and Politics, Electoral Campaigns, Research Methods and Politicization of Immigration.