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Dr Christalla Yakinthou

Honorary Research Fellow
PhD UWA
christalla.yakinthou@.uwa.edu.au


Areas of research specialisation:

The architecture of democracy in conflict societies; constitutional design; comparative political institutions; ethnic conflict; human rights; Cyprus conflict.


Publications:
BOOKS

Political Settlements in Divided Societies: Cyprus and Consociationalism, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, 2009.

The Emergence of a ‘Right to Truth’: A Comparison of Inter-American and European Human Rights Approaches to Enforced Disappearances, forthcoming.

Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies: Theories and Practice, Routledge, forthcoming 2011. Co-editor and contributor to a new book which examines the philosophies and process of political engineering, with case studies drawn from a number of conflict societies.

BOOK CHAPTERS

‘The House that Annan Built?’, in Varnavas, A. and Faustmann, H., Reunifying Cyprus: The Annan Plan and Beyond, I.B. Tauris, 2009.

‘Cyprus: Political Modernity and Institutions of Democracy in a Divided Island’, (with Andrekos Varnavas) The Oxford Handbook of Sub-National Democracy in Europe, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009.

REFEREED ARTICLES

‘‘The European Union’s Management of the Cyprus Conflict: System Failure or Structural Metamorphosis?’, Ethnopolitics, forthcoming, September 2009.

The Quiet Deflation of Den Xehno? Changes in the Greek Cypriot Communal Narrative on the Missing Persons in Cyprus’ Cyprus Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 2008.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

'Truth and Reconciliation in Cyprus: The Non-Debate', Oslo Peace Research Institute, Cyprus Centre Annual Conference, Nicosia, June 2009.

‘Why Don’t Conflicts Get Solved? What Becomes of a Society Deeply Traumatised by War?’ Inaugural talk for Bluestocking Institute for Global Peace and Justice, Perth, March 2009.

‘Consociationalism and Cyprus’, Cyprus Academic Forum, Nicosia, March 2009.

‘The EU and Cyprus: A Case of Failed Conflict Management?’, Paper presented at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, October 2008.

‘Power-sharing in Conflict Societies: The Case of Cyprus’, Paper presented at Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, April 2008.

COMMENTARY ARTICLES

'Reflections on a Meditrated Conflict', Ethnopolitics, June 2009
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