She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Warwick at the Department of Politics and International Studies between 2012 and 2014. Bahar completed a PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. During her PhD, she had the opportunity to work as a Visiting Research Fellow at Humboldt University (Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences) in Germany, REMESO (Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society) in Norrkoping, Sweden and Instituto Ciencias Sociais (ICS) in Lisbon, Portugal. Prior to her PhD, Bahar worked at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden as a Junior Researcher on the “Diasporas and Their Involvement in Peace Processes” project funded by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She holds an MA degree on Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University, Sweden and BA in Political Science in International Relations from Bogazici University, Turkey. Bahar’s research interests include ethno-national conflicts and political violence, conflict resolution, third party mediation, migration and diaspora studies. Bahar has various publications in peer-reviewed academic journals and she recently published a book in Turkey entitled: “The Turkish-Kurdish Question in the Diaspora: Second-generation in Sweden and Germany.”
Selected publications:
- Baser, B. (2015) Diasporas and Homeland Conflicts: A Comparative Perspective. Farnham: Ashgate.
- Baser, B. (2015) 'Tailoring Strategies According to Ever-Changing Dynamics: The Altering Image of the Kurdish Diaspora in Germany'. Terrorism and Political Violence.
- Baser, B. (2015) ‘Gezi Spirit in Transnational Space'. In Everywhere Taksim: Politics in Contemporary Turkey. Ed. By David, I., and Toktamis, K. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 251-265.
- Baser, B. (2015) ‘Alternative Voices in the Kurdish Diaspora: The case of KOMKAR’. In Dismantling diasporas: rethinking the geographies of diasporic identity, connection and development. Ed. by Mavroudi, E., and Christou, A. Farnham: Ashgate.
- Baser, B. (2014) ‘La diaspora Kurde d'Irak au Royaume-Uni’. Hommes & Migrations, 1307, 140-144.
- Baser, B. (2014) ‘The Awakening of a Latent Diaspora: The Political Mobilization of First and Second Generation Turkish Migrants in Sweden’. Ethnopolitics 13 (4), 355-376.
- Baser, B. (2013) Kurdish Diaspora in Europe: Identity Formation and Political Activism. Bogazici University-TUSIAD Foreign Policy Forum.
- Baser, B. (2013) Diasporada Turk-Kurt Sorunu: Isvec ve Almanya’da Ikinci Kusak. Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari. (Preface by Prof. Martin Van Bruinessen from University of Utrecht.)
- Baser, B. (2013) ‘Diasporas and Imported-Conflicts: The case of Turkish and Kurdish Second Generation in Sweden’. Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security, 3 (2), 105-125.
- Baser, B. (2012) Inherited Conflicts: Spaces of Contention between the Turkish and Kurdish Second-Generation Diasporas in Sweden and Germany. Unpublished PhD Thesis. Florence: European University Institute.
- Baser, B. (2011) Kurdish Diaspora Political Activism in Europe with a Particular Focus on Great Britain. Diaspora Dialogues for Development and Peace Project. Berlin: Berghof Peace Support
- Cochrane, F., Baser, B., and Swain, A. (2009) ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad: The Variable Impacts of Diasporas on Peace-Building’. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 32 (8), 681-704.
- Baser, B., and Swain, A. (2008) ‘Diasporas as Peacemakers: Third Party Mediation in Homeland Conflicts’. International Journal on World Peace 25 (3), 7-28.