My interest in conflict resolution began with Greek-Turkish conflicts. In my 2003 European Journal of International Relations article, I first sought to make sense of how antagonistic identity constructions fueled conflict between the two countries. Later, in my postdoctoral research as part of an EU-funded project team (2003-2005), I focused on the role of the EU in the post-1999 transformation in Greek-Turkish conflicts. In a number of publications, including an article in Journal of Common Market Studies in 2007 and a chapter in European Union and Border Conflicts volume, I have argued that the transformation in Greek-Turkish relations has been made possible primarily through changing EU discourses towards Turkey, which reshaped the Self/Other representations in the two countries, and facilitated the building of cooperative relations. Most recently, I have written a chapter which analyzes changing patterns of conflict and cooperation in Greek-Turkish relations in light of institutionalist theories in the volume Greece and Turkey in Conflict and Cooperation.

Recently, my interest in identity change and conflict resolution became interwoven with my research in ontological security. In my edited volume, Ontological Security and Conflict Resolution: Peace Anxieties, I explored how identity change in peace processes can be fostered in ways that sustain ontological security. With Jennifer Todd, I have organized an ECPR workshop on identity change in March 2015, and we have edited contributions made during this workshop into a special issue on Paradoxes of Identity Change in the journal Politics.