Professor Denisa Kostovicova has an MA from the Central European University and an MPhil and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining the London School of Economics and Political Science, she held Junior Research Fellowships at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Linacre College, Oxford. Her research is focused on transitional justice, post-conflict reconstruction and peace-building. Her recent research projects, where she was a Principal Investigator at the LSE, include the Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Reconciliation Within and Across Divided Societies: Evidence from the Balkans’ and the AHRC-funded project ‘Art and Reconciliation: Conflict, Culture and Community’ (under the Conflict Theme of the Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research (PaCCS) and through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). Professor Kostovicova is the author of Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space (2005), and co-editor of nine volumes including Transnationalism in the Balkans (2008), Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age (2009), Bottom-up Politics: An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalization (2011), Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans (2013) and Rethinking Reconciliation and Transitional Justice after Conflict (2018), alongside numerous academic articles and book chapters. She contributes regularly to policy analysis on challenges to post-conflict recovery.

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