Cyanne Loyle
Visiting Researcher and PRIO Global Fellow
Additional positions:
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University
Email: cloyle@psu.edu
Cyanne E. Loyle, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University.
Dr. Loyle’s current research focuses on transitional justice adopted both during and after armed conflict and the strategic use of justice processes in Rwanda and Uganda.
She is an East African specialist and has done field work in Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as Nepal, Northern Ireland and Turkey.
Dr. Loyle received her M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland. In 2014, she was a Fulbright and Leiv Eriksson scholar at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and from 2009-2011 she was a visiting researcher at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Currently, Dr. Loyle is the Assistant Director of the Northern Ireland Research Initiative and co-creator of the Post-Conflict Justice (PCJ) and During-Conflict Justice (DCJ) databases. Loyle’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the US Institute of Peace.
She was appointed PRIO Global Fellow in 2017.
Latest publications
All publications
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups
Journal Article in International Studies Review
Justice during the War with the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
PRIO Policy Brief
New Directions in Rebel Governance Research
Journal Article in Perspectives on Politics
Rebel Justice during Armed Conflict
Journal Article in Journal of Conflict Resolution
Defending Democracy: Taking Stock of the Global Fight Against Digital Repression, Disinformation, and Election Insecurity
Journal Article in Washington and Lee Law Review
Some left to tell the tale: Finding perpetrators and understanding violence in Rwanda
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
#rebel: Rebel communication strategies in the age of social media
Journal Article in Conflict Management and Peace Science
Fieldwork in “restrictive” environments: Contrasting methodologies
Journal Article in SAGE Research Methods Cases
The Impact of Government Judicial Processes on Conflict Trajectory
Conference Paper
Justice During Armed Conflict: Trends and Implications
Conflict Trends
Latest news
The Legacy of Racial Violence - New Project
The Legacy of Racial Violence project seeks to address gaps in our understanding of how past racial violence affects contemporary communities, using the US as a critical research case. process by which communities address those aftereffects through restorative acts.
This is one out of five PRIO projects that today have received funding from the Research Council of Norway.
PRIO Global Fellow Cyanne E. Loyle at PRIO this week
PRIO Global Fellow Cyanne E. Loyle visits PRIO this week to present her research with Helga Malmin Binningsbø and Scott Gates on During-Conflict Justice at the Norwegian MFA. She is director of the Political, Economic and Legal Institutions and Organizations Program at the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University and member of the Political Science Faculty.
Cyanne Loyle appointed PRIO Global Fellow
Cyanne E. Loyle, Assistant professor at the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, has recently been appointed PRIO Global Fellow. Loyle is working closely with PRIO researchers Helga Malmin Binningsbø and Scott Gates on various projects on the use and misuse of judicial processes during and after armed conflict.
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