Neophytos Loizides is Professor in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent and 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 the Kennedy School of Government. His research focuses on political institution building within violently divided societies, power-sharing and other formal or informal mechanisms aiming to mitigate protracted disputes. Professor Loizides is the author of The Politics of Majority Nationalism: Framing Peace, Stalemates, and Crises (Stanford, 2015), Designing Peace: Cyprus and Institutional Innovations in Divided Societies (Upenn 2016), and Mediating Power-Sharing (with Feargal Cochrane and Thibaud Bodson, Routledge 2018). He has authored more than forty academic articles and book chapters in the areas of conflict regulation, forced displacement and political including most recently work published inPolitical Psychology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and International Migration. 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 the Associate Editor of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.