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KOVRAS IOSIF

IOSIF KOVRAS
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PROFESSOR
Department of Social and Political Sciences
FEB 01 - Faculty of Economics and Management, Β121
Iosif Kovras is a Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. Before joining the University of Cyprus he was an Associate Professor at City University of London. His research interests include comparative post-conflict transitional justice and human rights. His current research project explores the policies of accountabilities deployed by six European countries to deal with the causes of the recent economic crisis. His work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, West European Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Psychology, Nations and Nationalism and Cooperation and Conflict, among others. His second book ‘Grassroots Activism and the Evolution of Transitional Justice‘ (CUP, 2017) received an Honorable Mention in the International Studies Association book award. His most recently published book 'Accountability after Economic Crisis' was published in 2025 by Oxford University Press.
 
His current research exploring the logic of the crime of disappearances in repressive and (post)conflict settings is funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant (2023-2028). Past research projects had received funding by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) the British Academy and other funding bodies.
Post-conflict Transitional Justice
Peace & Conflict Studies
Post-crisis Accountability
 
Books
 
 
Truth Recovery and Transitional Justice. Deferring Human Rights (2014, Routlege)
 
Journal Articles

 ‘Justice on Hold: Explaining the Reluctance of Victims to Seek Accountability’, International Journal of Transitional Justice, (accepted for publication, 2026), with Elpida Vasileiou and Nikandros Ioannidis.

'Digging Up Crimes: Forensic Perspectives on Perpetrator-Led Exhumations', Cooperation & Conflict, (2025) with Nikandros Ioannidis, Maria Mikellide, and Mariasol Leiva.

‘Explaining strategic disinterment: Forensics and the reconstruction of the missing in Cyprus’, Political Geography, (2025), with Maria Mikellide, Nikandros Ioannidis, Romanos Lyritsas.

‘Technologies of Justice: Forensics and the Evolution of Transitional Justice‘, European Journal of International Relations, (2023).
Best article published in the European Journal of International Relations, awarded by European International Studies Association (EISA), September 2024

‘Role Of Honor, Dignity, And Face Values In Transitional Justice In Post-Conflict Cyprus’, Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol.29(3), pp.294-305, with Psaltis C,. Kirchner-Haustler A, Uskul A., Eleftheriou A.

The EU’s Truth by Omission: Learning and Accountability after the Eurozone Crisis’,  British Journal of Politics & International Relations, (2021), with Mustafa Kutlay.

‘Crisis and Punishment? Explaining Politicians’ Appetite for Retribution in Post-Crisis Europe’, Comparative Politics (2021), with Stefano Pagliari

‘The Perils Of Accountability After Crisis: Ambiguity, Policy Legacies, And Value Trade-Offs’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, (2020), Vol.34(1), with Nadia Hilliard and Neophytos Loizides.

Truth Commissions after EconomicCrises: Political Learning or Blame Game?’, Political Studies, Volume: 66 issue: 1, pp.173-191 (2018, with Shaun McDaid & Ragnar Hjalmarsson).
 
‘Exposure to Violence, War-Related Losses and Attitudes Towards Transitional Justice: Evidence from Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina’, Political Psychology, Vo.39(2), pp.345-363(with Jonathan Hall, Djordje Stefanovic & Neophytos Loizides).
 
‘Death as the border: Managing missing migrants and unidentified bodies at the EU's Mediterranean frontier’. Political Geography, Vol.55, pp.40-49(2014, with Simon Robins).
 
‘The Greek Debt Crisis and Southern Europe: Majoritarian Pitfalls?, Comparative Politics, V ol.47(1), pp.1-20 (2014, with Neophytos Loizides)
 
'Explaining Prolonged Silences in Transitional Justice: the Disappeared Cyprus and Spain’, Comparative Political Studies, (2013)Vol.46, pp. 730-756
 
‘Cultures of Rioting and Anti-Systemic Movements in Southern Europe’, West European Politics, Vol.35(4), pp. 707-725(2012, with Katia Andronikidou)
 
'Delinkage Processes and Grassroots Movements in Transitional Justice’, Cooperation and Conflict, (2012) Vol. 47(1), pp.88-105
 
'Delaying Truth Recovery for Missing Persons’, Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 17(3), pp.520-540 (2011, with Neophytos Loizides)
 
 
 
 
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