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Staff Agathe Sarfati

Agathe Sarfati, Senior Policy Analyst

Agathe Sarfati is a Senior Policy Analyst at IPI, where she works on peace operations, counter-terrorism/sanctions, humanitarian action and protection. Agathe joined IPI in March 2020. Agathe...
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Agathe Sarfati is a Senior Policy Analyst at IPI, where she works on peace operations, counter-terrorism/sanctions, humanitarian action and protection. Agathe joined IPI in March 2020.

Agathe previously worked 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 holds a dual Master’s degree in International Security Policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Sciences-Po Paris, as well as an LLM in Public International Law with the University of London.

Selected Publications

  • “Accountability for Crimes Against Peacekeepers,” (New York: International Peace Institute, March 2023)
  • “Milestone in the Security Council: What the New Humanitarian “Carve-out” Means for UN Sanctions Regimes,” the Global Observatory, December 2022 (with Naureen C. Fink)
  • “The Humanitarian Exception in the New UNSC Sanctions Regime: Small Steps Toward Bigger Changes,” the Global Observatory, December 2022
  • “Reflecting the UN’s Core Mission in its Counterterrorism Efforts: Interview with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin,” the Global Observatory, November 2022 (with Eimer Curtin and William Lighthart)
  • “Toward an environmental and climate-sensitive approach to protection in UN peacekeeping” (New York: International Peace Institute, October 2022)
  • “While Afghans Wait, States and Banks Decrypt the Humanitarian Exception in the Taliban Sanctions Regime,” the Global Observatory, April 2022
  • “An Unfinished Agenda: Carving Out Space for Humanitarian Action within the UN Security Council 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,” in 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,” International Peace Institute/Global Center on Cooperative Security (with Annabelle Bonnefont and Jason Ipe)
  • “Reflecting on the UN’s Role in Counterterrorism Twenty Years After 9/11“, the Global Observatory, June 2021 (with Jake Sherman)
  • “The Future of UN Peacekeeping and Parallel Operations,” June 2021, DPO White Paper
  • “Transitions from UN Special Political Missions to UN Country Teams,” New York: International Peace Institute, April 2021
  • “Operationalizing the Sustaining Peace Agenda: Lessons from Burkina Faso, Liberia, and Papua New Guinea,” (New York: International Peace Institute, June 2020

Recent articles from
the Global Observatory

  • Why Congo’s M23 Crisis Lingers On

    May 30, 2023 by
    The conflict has been propped up by blame games, ineffective diplomacy, recurring geopolitical tensions and proxy warfare in the Great Lakes region, and the Congolese state’s weak commitment to addressing grievances that drive armed group proliferation.
    Analysis, africa, conflict
  • China’s Small Steps into UN Peacekeeping Are Adding Up

    May 24, 2023 by Courtney J. Fung
    China will likely continue to shape peacekeeping along its preferences for a more technical and less overt political foreign policy tool.
    Analysis, peacekeeping, UN Peacekeeping at 75, united nations
  • As UN Missions Draw Down, Strengthening Community-Led Approaches to Protection of Civilians

    May 23, 2023 by Gay Rosenblum-Kumar

    UN mission transitions still result in gaps in the protection of…

    Analysis, peacekeeping, protection of civilians
  • Human Survival Depends on Biodiversity: Interview with Brad Cardinale

    May 22, 2023 by Jill Stoddard

    Brad Cardinale, an ecologist who focuses on the conservation and restoration of biodiversity in natural systems discusses the scale…

    Interviews, biodiversity, climate change, ecology
  • Mediation in Peacekeeping Contexts: Trends and Challenges for Mission Leadership

    May 19, 2023 by
    The political role of the UN may not have diminished overall, but shifted.
    Analysis, peacekeeping, UN Peacekeeping at 75, united nations

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