Nisan Alici a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. She holds a Ph.D. from the Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University. Her Ph.D. project focused on the prospects for transitional justice in the ongoing Kurdish conflict from a victim-centred and grassroots-oriented approach. Nisan is the co-founder of Demos Research Association where she has been involved in research projects on peace, gender, and transitional justice. She is currently a researcher at the Centre for Rights and Justice at Nottingham Trent University.