Agathe Sarfati is a Senior Policy Analyst at IPI’s Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations, where she focuses on peace operations, humanitarian action and protection. Agathe joined IPI in March 2020.

Agathe previously worked on counter-terrorism policies at INTERPOL and with the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED). She also worked on humanitarian affairs at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Delegation to the United Nations. Agathe is particularly interested in the intersection between hard security issues, conflict resolution, and public international law.

Agathe holds a dual Master’s degree in International Security from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Sciences Po Paris and is pursuing an LLM in International Criminal Justice with the University of London.

Selected Publications

• “An Unfinished Agenda: Carving Out Space for Humanitarian Action in the UN Security Council’s Counterterrorism Resolutions and Related Sanctions” (New York: International Peace Institute, March 2022)
• “International Humanitarian Law and the criminal justice response to terrorism: From the UN Security Council to the national courts,” International Review of the Red Cross, “Counterterrorism, sanction and war”, Volume 103 Number 916 and 917, Cambridge University Press, February 2022, pp.267-293.
•  “Protection Dilemmas Arising from the Reintegration of Former Combatants and the Impact of the Terrorist Designation” (New York: International Peace Institute, January 2022)
• “Continuity amid change: the 2021 mandate renewal of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate,“with Annabelle Bonnefont and Jason Ipe, (New York: International Peace Institute and Global Center on Cooperative Security, November 2021)
• “Transitions from Special Political Missions to UN country teams” (New York: International Peace Institute, April 2021)
• “The Future of UN Peacekeeping and Parallel Operations,” IPI White Paper for the UN Department of Peace Operations, June 2021.
• “Operationalizing the Sustaining Peace Agenda: Lessons from Burkina Faso, Liberia and Papua New Guinea” (New York: International Peace Institute, June 2020)