Dr. Bahar Baser is a professor of political science and international relations at Durham University School of Government and International Affairs. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, where she led the “Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Research Group”. Before that, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Warwick at the Department of Politics and International Studies between 2012 and 2014.
Dr. Baser is an expert in the area of diaspora studies, peacebuilding and conflict transformation, with a regional focus on the Middle East. She has conducted extensive research on diaspora engagement in peace processes, post-conflict reconstruction and state-building in the Global South. She has published extensively on stateless diaspora activism and mobilisation in Europe with a specific focus on host states’ counterterrorism policies, radicalization of diaspora members and transnationalization of homeland conflicts.
