Dina Mansour-Ille is a Senior Research Editor at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). She holds a PhD in Politics with a focus on political violence, conflict and social movements. She is an expert on the Middle East and North Africa and her main research areas of expertise are migration, fragility, conflict, radicalisation and violent extremism. Since 2014, she has been an editor-in-chief of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN) – an international peer-reviewed journal – and is currently an editorial advisor to the journal.