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Arthur Boutellis
Senior Advisor
Arthur Boutellis is a Senior Advisor at TrustWorks Global with 15 years of experience working in Africa and the Middle East in conflict and fragile contexts, specializing in armed groups, mediation/negotiation, political and security risk analysis, Security Sector Reform (SSR), and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR); and peace and stabilization operations. Arthur also serves as non-resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute (IPI), where he was Director from 2015 to 2017, and teaches at graduate-level at Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris.
Arthur previously worked with the UN missions in Burundi (BINUB), Chad and the Central African Republic (MINURCAT), Haiti (MINUSTAH), and Mali (MINUSMA) where he supported the 2014-15 Mali peace negotiations as part of the UN Mediation Team. Before that, he managed emergency and recovery programs for humanitarian NGOs in the Middle East and Africa. He holds a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University, a PhD from Université Paris Panthéon-Assas and is a 2020 auditeur of the Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale (IHEDN). He is bilingual English-French, a member of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and serves on the Editorial Board of International Peacekeeping.
Regional Specialization
Africa and the Middle East
Thematic Specialization
Non-state armed groups, SSR/DDR, mediation, P/CVE.
Languages
French, English and Spanish.
Selected Publications
- "Lessons from E10 Engagement on the Security Council", (International Peace Institute, November 2022)
- “Sharing the Burden: Lessons from the European Return to Multidimensional Peacekeeping,” (International Peace Institute, January 2020)
- “Rethinking UN Peacekeeping Burden-Sharing in a Time of Global Disorder,” (Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019)
- “The Challenges of Mediation in Gray Zones: The Case of Mali”, in Handbook on Mediating International Crises, edited by Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Kyle Beardsley, David Quinn (Edward Elgar, 2019)
- “Vers une privatisation des opérations de maintien de la paix?” dans Vers une africanisation des opérations de maintien de la paix, sous la direction de Peer de Jong (L’Harmattan, Collection Stratégies africaines de sécurité: Février 2019)
- “The changing role of conventional arms control in preventing and managing violent conflicts”(United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research UNIDIR, November 2018)
- “Peace Operations and Organised Crime: Still Foggy?”in United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order, edited by Cedric de Coning and Mateja Peter (Springer Nature, October 2018) (with Stephanie Tiélès)
