Peadar Thompson is a lifelong Gael from West Belfast, Ireland. He is a fluent gaeilgeoir, and member of Naomh Eoin (St John' s), Belfast. Strongly motivated by his own family's campaigning for truth and justice, Peadar has read law at both Newcastle University and Leiden University, and has worked in the fields of human rights, law and victim advocacy, including at Relatives for Justice. Peadar is named after his paternal uncle Peter, who was killed on 13 January 1990 by undercover British Army Intelligence Officers.