Başar Baysal is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Area Studies, Social Sciences University of Ankara. He holds an MA from Marmara University and a PhD from Bilkent University (2017). His research covers critical security studies, peace and conflict processes, defence studies, environmental security and securitization theory. As a TÜBİTAK 2219 postdoctoral fellow at Universidad del Rosario, he conducted fieldwork on Colombia’s peace process. He later studied climate security perceptions in Türkiye at Sabancı University’s Istanbul Policy Center. He authored Securitization and Desecuritization of FARC in Colombia and has published in Peacebuilding, International Relations and International Journal.