Dilek Gürsel works for a humanitarian NGO in Iraq. She holds a Master in International Development from Sciences Po Paris where she researched on the effects of political repression on the mobilization possibilities for (Kurdish) women activists for which she spent some time in Turkey and engaged with the feminist movement there. She has been active with WILPF for one year and co-authored the brochure on an intersectional feminist analysis of Germany’s (dis)armament policy.