Research & Publications

Denisa Kostovicova and Lanabi La Lova. 'Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine,' East European Politics (2025): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2025.2562415
Denisa Kostovicova, Lanabi La Lova, and Timothy William Waters. 'Enemy of Justice? Secrecy in Domestic War Crimes Trials in Serbia,' Journal of Genocide Research (2025): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2025.2545083
Ivor Sokolić and Venera Çočaj, 'Finding the common good in divided societies: The benefits of self-interest in transitional justice interactions,' The British Journal of Politics and International Relations (2025): 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481251356805
Denisa Kostovicova, Ivor Sokolić and Lanabi La Lova, ‘Legislative Debates and Transitional Justice in the Balkans,’ in Stormy-Annika Mildner and Tina Bories (eds), Reconciliation in the Western Balkans, Aspen Germany, Berlin, 2024. https://www.aspeninstitute.de/wp-content/uploads/Reconciliation-in-the-Western-Balkans.pdf
Ivor Sokolić, Denisa Kostovicova, Lanabi La Lova and Sanja Vico, ‘Are Domestic War Crimes Trials Biased?’, Journal of Peace Research (2024), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433241292143
Denisa Kostovicova and Sanja Vico, ‘Interactions for Justice: An Introduction’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 18(5), 2024: 493-511. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2024.2437589
Ivor Sokolić, 'Meaningful acknowledgement: how to evaluate acknowledgement in transitional justice interactions using deliberative reciprocity?' The International Journal of Human Rights (2024): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2024.2424393
Denisa Kostovicova, ‘Discursive Interaction and Agency in Transitional Justice: A Conversation Analysis Perspective.‘ Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (2024): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2024.2362002
Denisa Kostovicova and Lanabi La Lova, ‘Grandstanding Instead of Deliberative Policy-Making: Transitional Justice, Publicness and Parliamentary Questions in the Croatian Parliament.’ Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (2024): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2024.2362001
Sanja Vico. 'Social media, stereotypes, and the acknowledgement of war crimes,' Journal of Intevention and Statebuilding (2024): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2024.2316747
Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Popovski. 'Women’s discursive agency in transitional justice policy-making: A feminist institutionalist approach,' Review of International Studies (2023): 1-20. doi:10.1017/S0260210523000360
Sanja Vico. 'Cognitive Dissonance in Social Media and Face-to-Face Interactions in Relation to the Legacy of War,' International Journal of Communication 16 (2022): 5739-5758. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18917/3970
Ivor Sokolić. 'Claims to Ignorance as a Form of Participation in Transitional Justice,' Cooperation and Conflict (2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367221090111
Denisa Kostovicova, Rachel Kerr, Ivor Sokolić, Tiffany Fairey, Henry Redwood and Jelena Subotić, “The ‘Digital Turn’ in Transitional Justice Research: Evaluating Image and Text as Data in the Western Balkans,” Comparative Southeast European Studies (2022) 70 (1): 24-46. https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2021-0055
Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Denisa Kostovicova and Ahmet K. Suerdem, 'Persistence of Informal Networks and Liberal Peace-building: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina.' Journal of International Relations and Development (2021), online first. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-021-00220-4
Denisa Kostovicova and Tom Paskhalis, 'Gender, Justice and Deliberation: Why Women Don’t Influence Peace-Making,' International Studies Quarterly (2021), online first. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqab003
Denisa Kostovicova and Eleanor Knott, 'Harm, Change and Unpredictability: The Ethics of Interviews in Conflict Research’, Qualitative Research (2021), online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794120975657
Mary Kaldor and Denisa Kostovicova, 'Global Civil Society, Peacebuilding and Statebuilding,' In The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding and Peace Formation, edited by Oliver P. Richmond and Gëzim Visoka (2021). Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904418.013.22
Sanja Vico, 'Destigmatisation Strategies of Serbian Londoners on Social Media,' Television and New Media (2020): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476420918384
Ivor Sokolić, 'Narratives of Justice and Conflict in Croatia,' In Legacies of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: A Multidisciplinary Account, edited by Carsten Stahn, Carmel Agius, Serge Brammertz, John Hocking and Colleen Rohan, 445-61. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198862956.003.0024
Vjollca Krasniqi, Ivor Sokolić and Denisa Kostovicova. 'Skirts as Flags: Transitional Justice, Gender and Everyday Nationalism in Kosovo,' Nations and Nationalism (2020) 26 (2): 461-476. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12593
Sanja Vico. 'Globalised’ difference: identity politics on social media,' Journal of Global Diaspora and Media (2020) 1(1): 55-70. https://doi.org/10.1386/gdm_00004_1
Denisa Kostovicova, Ivor Sokolić and Orli Fridman, 'Introduction: Below Peace Agreements: Everyday Nationalism or Everyday Peace?,' Nations and Nationalism (2020) 26 (2): 424-430. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12595
Denisa Kostovicova, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Marsha Henry, 'Drawing on the Continuum: A War and Post-War Political Economy of Gender-Based Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina,' International Feminist Journal of Politics (2020) 22 (2): 250-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2019.1692686
Ivor Sokolić, Denisa Kostovicova, and Adam Fagan, 'Civil Society in the Post-Yugoslav Space: The Test of Discontinuity and Democratization,' In The Legacy of Yugoslavia: Politics, Economics and Society in the Modern Balkans, edited by Othon Anastasakis, Adam Bennett, David Madden and Adis Merdzanovic (2020), 39-58. London: I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781788317986.ch-002
James Hughes and Denisa Kostovicova, editors. Rethinking Reconciliation and Transitional Justice After Conflict. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780367584375.
Ivor Sokolić, 'Transitional Justice in Croatia,' In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies, edited Oliver Richmond and Gezim Visoka (2020). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_94-1.
Denisa Kostovicova, 'Transitional Justice and Conflict Studies: Bridging the Divide,' Journal of Global Security Studies (2019) 4 (2): 273–278. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogz003
Ivor Sokolić, 'Reconciliation Rising: The Roles of the Everyday and the Informal in Successful Post-conflict Reconciliation,' Ethnopolitics (2019) 19 (2): 162-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2019.1653015
Ivor Sokolić, 'Heroes at the Margins: Veterans, Elites and the Narrative of War,' In Framing the Nation and Collective Identity in Croatia: Political Rituals and Cultural Memory of 20th Century Traumas edited by Vjeran Pavlaković and Davor Pauković (2019): 143-59. Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315145730
Ivor Sokolić. 2019. International Courts and Mass Atrocity: Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-90841-0
Anna Getmansky, Tolga Sinmazdemir, and Thomas Zeitzoff, 'The Allure of Distant War Drums: Refugees, Geography, and Foreign Policy Preferences in Turkey,' Political Geography (2019), 74, October, 102036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102036
Tolga Sinmazdemir, 'Collaborating Across Borders: Challenges and Choices in Joint Survey Research between Local and Foreign Scholars,' PS: Political Science and Politics (2019), 52 (3): 503-506. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096519000210
Fabbe, Kristin, Tolga Sinmazdemir, and Thomas Zeitzoff, 'A Persuasive Peace? Syrian Refugees’ Attitudes Towards Compromise and Civil War Termination,' Journal of Peace Research (2019), 56 (1): 103-117. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343318814114
James Hughes and Denisa Kostovicova. ‘Introduction: Rethinking Reconciliation and Transitional Justice after Conflict,' Ethnic and Racial Studies (2018) 41 (4): 617-623. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1406129
Denisa Kostovicova and Aude Bicquelet. 'Norm Contestation and Reconciliation: Evidence from a Regional Transitional Justice Process in the Balkans,' Ethnic and Racial Studies (2018), 41 (4): 681-700. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2018.1380211
Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Denisa Kostovicova and Elisa Randazzo, 'EU in the Western Balkans: Hybrid Development, Hybrid Security and Hybrid Justice,' In EU Global Strategy and Human Security: Rethinking Approaches to Conflict, edited by Mary Kaldor and Iavor Rangelov (2018), 46-63. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781315104232
Kristin Fabbe and Tolga Sinmazdemir, 'Syrian Refugees in Turkey and the Politics of Postconflict Reconciliation,' Review of Middle East Studies (2018), 52 (2): 249-262. https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2018.90
Anna Getmansky, Tolga Sinmazdemir, and Thomas Zeitzoff, 'Refugees, Xenophobia, and Domestic Conflict: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey,' Journal of Peace Research (2018), 55(4): 491-507. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0022343317748719
Anna Getmansky and Tolga Sinmazdemir, 'Settling on Violence: Expansion of Israeli Outposts in the West Bank in Response to Terrorism,' Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (2018), 41(3): 241-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2017.1283196