Selbi Durdiyeva

Selbi Durdiyeva is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps University Marburg, working as part of the 'Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict' project. She obtained her PhD at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster. She is a former Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability (AHDA) Fellow, at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University (2021-2022). She also worked as a research assistant at Nottingham Law School’s UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project. She has an LLM in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from the University of Essex. Previously, she worked as an Adjunct Lecturer and Legal Clinic Coordinator at the School of Law at KIMEP University, Kazakhstan and as the Child Rights International Network researcher. She is the author of a monograph, 'The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice: The Case of Russia' published by Routledge (2024) and several other peer-reviewed publications. She is currently working on juxtaposing narratives as found in women’s writing as opposed to the official archival directives on gender and coloniality in Central Asia during the Soviet period and a Reading Group on postcolonial literature from Central Asia and Azerbaijan.