Dr. Güneş Daşlı is a CARA Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Politics, and History at Loughborough University. She completed her PhD at the Center for Reconciliation Studies from Jena University, Germany, in 2023. Her PhD thesis on transitional justice and Kurdish conflict was honoured with summa cum laude (with the highest distinction). Her research focuses on post-conflict studies, critical justice theories, feminist moral philosophy, and social movements, with a particular emphasis on the Middle East. Dr. Daşlı has consulted on various research projects related to transitional processes, including recent efforts in Iraq. She teaches courses on conflict, gender and peace, and transitional justice. An active feminist peace advocate, Dr. Daşlı was part of the consulting team during Turkey’s Peace Process from 2013 to 2015.
Dr Gunes Dasli`s research centres on intersections of political agency, transitional justice and victim mobilizations. She is currently working on her book project based on her PhD thesis, exploring relationality in transitional justice with the case study of the Kurdish conflict. She has worked on her recent research project, focusing on the role of constructed collective identity in justice struggle in the case of Saturday Mothers in Turkey.
Journal Articles
- Daşlı, G.& Murphy E (2024). Moving Beyond Binary Identities in Transitional Justice: Recognising the Complexity of Agency in Agonistic Spaces, International Journal of Human Rights.
- Daşlı, G. (2024). Victim Agency, Relational Autonomy and Transitional Justice: Experience of Saturday Mothers. International Journal of Transitional Justice, ijae021.
- Daşlı, G. (2024). The Politics of Gravelessness and Necropolitical Violence in Turkey: “The souls of deceased searching for a grave”. The Commentaries, 4(1), 43-54.
Other Publications
- Dasli, G (2024). Understanding the Kurdish issue with its Changing Dynamics after 2015 from the perspective of Authoritarian Conflict Management, Policy Paper in Turkish, DEMOS Research Association, Ankara.
- Dasli, G., Bor, G., & Alici, N. (2021). From converging roads to narrowing grounds: the struggle for peace by LGBTI+ and women’s organizations in Turkey, DEMOS Research Association, Ankara.
- Dasli, G., Alici, N., & Figueras, J. P. (2018). Peace and gender: The Colombian peace process, DEMOS Research Association, Ankara.