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Comparative Politics, Transitional Justice, International Politics, Human Rights

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Employment (5)

University of Cyprus: Nicosia, CY

2020-03-16 to present | Associate Professor (Social and Political Sciences)
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Iosif Kovras

City University London: LONDON, GB

2015-12-01 to 2020-03-15 | Reader/Associate Professor in Comparative Politics (International Politics)
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Queen's University Belfast: Belfast, Belfast, GB

2013-07-01 to 2015-11-30 | Research Fellow (Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice)
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Princeton University: Princeton, NJ, US

2012-09-01 to 2013-06-30 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: Athens, GR

2012-01-01 to 2012-08-01 | Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Political Science & Public Administration)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Queen's University Belfast: Belfast, Belfast, GB

2007-09-01 to 2011-05-01 | PhD (History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics)
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Aberystwyth University: Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, GB

2005-09-01 to 2006-09-01 | MScEcon (International Politics)
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Panteion University: Athens, Attiki, GR

2000-10-01 to 2005-05-01 | BSc Political Science & History (Political Science & History)
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Funding (5)

Disappearing Act: Reconstructing the Crime of Disappearances in Times of Political Violence

2023-07 to 2028-06 | Grant
European Research Council (Brussels, BE)
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Truth, Accountability or Impunity? Transitional Justice and the Economic Crisis

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Missing Migrants and Deaths at the EU's Mediterranean Border: Humanitarian Needs and State Obligations

Legal, ethical and moral issues in researching conflict, violence and peace

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Missing Migrant Bodies on Europe's Southern Frontier

2013-04-01 to 2014-03-31 | Grant
British Academy (London, GB)
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Works (38)

Accountability after Economic Crisis.

Oxford University Press
2025-03 | Book
Contributors: Iosif Kovras
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Accountability after Economic Crisis

2025-03-13 | Book
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Explaining strategic disinterment: Forensics and the reconstruction of the missing in Cyprus

Political Geography
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Mikellide; Romanos Lyritsas; Nikandros Ioannidis; Iosif Kovras
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Role of honor, dignity, and face values in transitional justice in postconflict cyprus.

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
2023-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Charis Psaltis; Alexander Kirchner-Häusler; Ayse K. Uskul; Iosif Kovras; Androulla Eleftheriou
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Technologies of justice: forensics and the evolution of transitional justice

European Journal of International Relations
2023-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Iosif Kovras
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The EU’s truth by omission: Learning and accountability after the Eurozone crisis

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
2022-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1369-1481
Part of ISSN: 1467-856X
Contributors: Iosif Kovras
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The perils of accountability after crisis: ambiguity, policy legacies, and value trade-offs

Cambridge Review of International Affairs
2020-01-27 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0955-7571
Part of ISSN: 1474-449X
Contributors: Iosif Kovras; Mustafa Kutlay
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Grassroots Activism and the Evolution of Transitional Justice

2017 | Book
Part of ISBN: 9781316711262
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Truth Commissions after Economic Crises: Political Learning or Blame Game?

Political Studies
2017-10-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0032-3217
Contributors: Iosif Kovras; Shaun McDaid; Ragnar Hjalmarsson
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Exposure to Violence and Attitudes Towards Transitional Justice

Political Psychology
2017-04-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0162-895X
Contributors: Jonathan Hall; Iosif Kovras; Djordje Stefanovic; Neophytos Loizides
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Death as the border: Managing missing migrants and unidentified bodies at the EU's Mediterranean frontier

Political Geography
2016-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0962-6298
Contributors: Iosif Kovras; Simon Robins
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Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science after Atrocity by Adam Rosenblatt

Human Rights Review
2016-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1524-8879
Contributors: Iosif Kovras
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Post-Conflict and Transitional Justice

Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets
2016-04 | Dataset
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The Greek Debt Crisis and Southern Europe: Majoritarian Pitfalls?

Comparative Politics
2014-10-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0010-4159
Contributors: Iosif Kovras; Neophytos Loizides
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Truth Recovery and Transitional Justice

2014-05-02 | Book
Part of ISBN: 9780203083697
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The Media and the Far Right in Western Europe: Playing the Nationalist Card. By Antonis A. Ellinas. (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

The Journal of Politics
2013-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0022-3816
Contributors: Iosif Kovras; Neophytos Loizides
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Protracted Stalemates and Conflict Intervention: Policy(Un)Learning and the Cyprus–EU Debacle

Ethnopolitics
2012-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1744-9057
Contributors: Iosif Kovras; Neophytos G. Loizides
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Explaining Prolonged Silences in Transitional Justice

Comparative Political Studies
2012-11-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0010-4140
Contributors: Iosif Kovras
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Cultures of Rioting and Anti-Systemic Politics in Southern Europe

West European Politics
2012-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0140-2382
Contributors: Aikaterini Andronikidou; Iosif Kovras
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De-linkage processes and grassroots movements in transitional justice

Cooperation and Conflict
2012-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0010-8367
Contributors: Iosif Kovras
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Non-apologies and prolonged silences in post-conflict settings: The case of post-colonial Cyprus

Time & Society
2012-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0961-463X
Contributors: Kathleen Ireton; Iosif Kovras
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Delaying truth recovery for missing persons*

Nations and Nationalism
2011-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1354-5078
Contributors: IOSIF KOVRAS; NEOPHYTOS LOIZIDES
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The UN's Moral Responsibility in the ‘Spill-Over’ of Genocide from Rwanda to the Democratic Republic of the Congo

African Journal of International and Comparative Law
2011-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0954-8890
Contributors: Iosif Kovras
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The parliamentary election in Greece, October 2009

Electoral Studies
2010-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0261-3794
Contributors: Iosif Kovras
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Unearthing the Truth: The Politics of Exhumations in Cyprus and Spain

History and Anthropology
2008 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0275-7206
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Grassroots Activism and the Evolution of Transitional Justice
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Chapter 6. Buried Silences of the Greek Civil War

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Part of ISBN: 9780812291322
Contributors: Katerina Stefatos; Iosif Kovras
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Conclusions: Five Lessons for Transitional Justice

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Crisis and Punishment? Explaining Politicians’ Appetite for Retribution in Post-Crisis Europe

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Cyprus: The Bright Side of a Frozen Conflict

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Institutionalized Silences for the Missing in Lebanon

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Introduction

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Methodological and Theoretical Innovations in the Use of Databases in Transitional Justice

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Poetic Justice: The Chilean Desaparecidos

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The Daughters of Antigone in Latin America: Argentinian Mothers

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The “Missing” Tale of Human Rights

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Truth Commissions and the Missing: South Africa's “Unfinished Business”

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“Forensic Cascade”: The Technologies and Institutions of Truth

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