Denisa Kostovicova

Thank you, Adam!

The material basis of gender-based violence and its circuits Our Professor in Global Politics Denisa Kostovicova, together with Dr Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Research Fellow in Civil Society and Conflict Research Group in the LSE Department of International…

Our Professor @denisakost.bsky.social has co-authored a chapter in the newly-published book, "War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital," which provides a structural explanation of post-conflict gender-based violence against women.

Discover it below👇

www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

Thank you for your invitation and guidance!

Speaking Up: Social Interaction, Disclosure, and Meaning-Making by Youth Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Rwanda Abstract. Children born of wartime rape have long been invisible, ostracized, and silenced. This predicament explains blind spots in transitional justice d

👇 NEW ARTICLE: With Myriam Denov, we analyse how children born of war time rape in Rwanda disclose harms in social interaction to find agency in the self through novel analysis of discourse in transitional justice pioneered by JUSTINT @erc.europa.eu @lse-ei.bsky.social
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War Economy | Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital | Aida A Hozić War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital examines the war economy from feminist perspectives, bringing fresh thinking in the context of heightened

👇NEW BOOK CHAPTER: Delighted to coauthor with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic & Marsha Henry @mghacademic.bsky.social
on the circuits of gender-based violence in Bosnia: part of a timely & important collaboration led by Aida
@hozic.bsky.social and Jacqui True
@lse-ei.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/43af54ta

The online banner shows a Call for Papers: "The Yugoslav Wars, the Transformation of Europe, and the Post-Cold War Order". Conference dates: December 9-11, 2026 in Regensburg. Application deadline: March 1, 2026.

📣 #CfP: "The Yugoslav Wars, the Transformation of Europe, and the Post-Cold War Order"
Conference at #LeibnizIOS Regensburg, December 9–11, 2026. We welcome proposals on the Yugoslav Wars & their impact on European & international politics.
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2026
➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

Interested in the study of conflict in Europe and beyond? If so, join us today! 👇

Delighted to contribute to this discussion together with @lanabi.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social

Grateful for the opportunity to present @erc.europa.eu JUSTINT research and engage with practitioners, HR activists, victims and scholars at a critical time for postconflict justice in ex-YU @lse-ei.bsky.social

Curious how AI + data-driven tools are already reshaping TJ? My colleague Saide Vega Mobayed mapped 40+ use cases worldwide with Impunity Watch — from OSINT to reparations design, including our work with @denisakost.bsky.social et al. at JustInt. Report link: www.impunitywatch.org/wp-content/u...

Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine Violence in distant conflicts can foster solidarity across borders, mediated by partisanship, identities, and ideology. But, attitudes towards a society’s own war legacies may also shape reactions ...

💡New & #FREE article 'Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in #Serbia for and against #Ukraine' by @denisakost.bsky.social ( @lse-ei.bsky.social ) & @lanabi.bsky.social ( @lsemethodology.bsky.social ) 🇷🇸🇺🇦 @adamfagan.bsky.social @lenkabustikova.bsky.social @andreapirro.it

The video of last night’s powerful event with Steve Crawshaw is now available.

Reflecting on his book, “Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice”, Crawshaw joined Prof @denisakost.bsky.social for a thought-provoking conversation.

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-D6...

👇 Looking forward to contributing to this important discussion! @lse-ei.bsky.social

Our article, "Enemy of Justice? Secrecy in Domestic War Crimes Trials in Serbia", co-authored w @denisakost.bsky.social & Timothy William Waters, is now available in Serbian 🇷🇸. Published by Forum za bezbednost i demokratiju (FBD) in its “Vidici i Putokazi” series: fbd.org.rs/images/pdfs/...

👇We’ll be on-line soon! 1pm UK time, 2pm CET.

Looking forward to presenting our paper on deliberation and anti-deliberation in Western Baljans with Ivor Sokolic and Irena Fiket at the Serbian Political Science Association Conference @lse-ei.bsky.social

tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

Check out the upcoming event by LSEE Research on South-East Europe👇

Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine

🇷🇸🇺🇦 @denisakost.bsky.social and @lanabi.bsky.social have published a new JUSTINT paper in East European Politics, which analyses cross border dynamics of war crimes denial between Serbia and Ukraine.

Discover it below👇

www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine Violence in distant conflicts can foster solidarity across borders, mediated by partisanship, identities, and ideology. But, attitudes towards a society’s own war legacies may also shape reactions ...

👇 NEW ARTICLE with @Lanabi_la_Lova: We analyse cross border dynamics of war crimes denial. Attitudes to in-group's past wars & accountability explain selective solidarity with victims of distant conflicts. @lse-ei.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @eepolitics.bsky.social tinyurl.com/b4sum24y

I was honoured to give a key note lecture on ‘Digital Interactions: Political Communication and Mass Atrocity Crimes in the Western Balkans’ in Germany. Great to connect with colleagues, make new connections and learn about emerging research! @lse-ei.bsky.social @sudosteuropa.bsky.social

New paper 🚨 “Vicarious denial: war crimes & online deliberation in Serbia” 🇷🇸 with @denisakost.bsky.social

We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality By Eleanor Knott and Denisa Kostovicova, London School of Economics The profession has been increasing efforts to ensure ethical research in politics and international relations (IR) with robust institutional review procedures. But this ethics turn has not been evaluated systematically to date.

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality

To Report or Not to Report on Research Ethics in Political Science and International Relations: A New Dimension of Gender-Based Inequality By Eleanor Knott and…

If you’re at #APSA2025 and interested in Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, and/or the Balkans, I’m presenting two chapters from our book project with
@denisakost.bsky.social
and
Ivor Sokolic.
Come by!
@apsa.bsky.social
#APSA2025

Great to see this paper out. Whatever sensitive topic one might tackle - whether it is war crimes, corruption or others - the phenomenon of secrecy in closed institutions is one that raises imp questions, esp. in (semi)authoritarian contexts. Congrats @lanabi.bsky.social @denisakost.bsky.social

Thank you, Tena! Also for you insightful feedback as we worked on this piece, which we gratefully acknowledge 🙂

Enemy of Justice? Secrecy in Domestic War Crimes Trials in Serbia Secrecy is an essential element in war crimes trials, as it protects vulnerable individuals and sensitive information, ensuring trials can proceed effectively. However, secrecy often conflicts with...

NEW ARTICLE📢 We show how redactions in war crimes judgements obstruct transparency, prevent reckoning with past violence & highlight limits of digital data for quant analysis in TJ w/ @lanabi.bsky.social T.W.Waters @erc.europa.eu @lse-ei.bsky.social @journalgenocide.bsky.social
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Many congratulations, Ellie! So well deserved!

👇 Very pleased to see my book recommended as a summer read by the International Studies Association (ISA), with hope that we can learn from evidence-based research about how to tackle and overcome divisive legacies of war crimes @lse-ei.bsky.social @cornellupress.bsky.social

We thank colleagues for their interest in & comments on our JUSTINT @erc.europa.eu research on online memorialisation of Srebrenica genocide w/ @lanabi.bsky.social & Ivor Sokolic
at a special 'Why Remember?' conference in Sarajevo in memory of Paul Lowe @lse-ei.bsky.social