Alison Bisset

Dr Alison Bisset is Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the University of Reading, UK. Her scholarship focuses on Transitional Justice, International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law. She is the author of Truth Commissions and Criminal Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2012, paperback 2014) and has published widely on truth commissions, children’s rights and international judicial cooperation in leading international law journals. Dr Bisset has advised government departments, intergovernmental organisations, national armed forces, and civil society bodies on issues relating to international criminal law and transitional justice. She is the editor (2014-) of Blackstone’s International Human Rights Documents, published by Oxford University Press.

Repatriation of ISIS Members from Camps in Syria: What Next?

By Saeed Bagheri and Alison Bisset / April 11, 2025

In recent months, the fall of the Assad regime and the US government’s announcement that it will withdraw troops from Syria has once again brought attention to the question of how to resolve the issue of SDF-controlled camps holding ISIS fighters and their families. Now, a new deal has been reached between the SDF and …

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