Fieldwork
An agenda focused on practical ethics.
I always seek to unite teaching and research with practice. I have tested theories and concepts of ethics and justice through extensive fieldwork in more than 40 countries.
I aim to understand how to navigate ethical challenges with practical effectiveness and moral integrity.
I have built a practical expertise in ethical dilemmas raised in peacebuilding and conflict prevention. I have worked with multiple transitional justice processes, including peace accords, war-reparation commissions, track II diplomatic efforts, and regional conflict prevention initiatives.
I have conducted extensive fieldwork in more than 40 conflict-affected zones, including Iraq, the Central African Republic, the West Bank/Gaza, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Somalia, Ukraine (Donbass and Crimea), Pakistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province), Lebanon, among others.
I was involved in the assessment of war damage in Ukraine, first for the annexation of Crimea by Russia (on behalf of the Permanent Court of Arbitration - The Hague).
When the full war started in 2022, I helped set up several programs and facilities supporting the Ukrainian war economy. I have conducted my field missions, including with municipalities impacted by the war.
I served as an independent expert advising on setting up the Recovery and Peacebuilding Plan in the Central African Republic. I conducted fact-finding missions in several conflict-affected territories of Central African Republic and prepared detailed vulnerability assessments.
I also conducted fieldwork to review the effectiveness and impact of ex-combatant disarmament programs in the Central African Republic and participated in demobilization and arm recovery operations in the Bossangoa, Bozoum, and Sibut regions.
I served as a senior advisor to the Palestinian Authority’s Negotiations Support Unit (NSU) on three files of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiation process (refugees, settlements, and the security wall).
In 2013-2014, I participated to the Chatham House’s Minster Lovell Peace Process on Palestinian Refugee Losses. This process gathered participants from the UN, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, US State Dpt., academia, and unofficial representatives of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.
Between 2016-2018, I participated to the ‘Pittsburgh Initiative’ on the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process. This initiative brought together Palestinian and Israel peace former negotiators to a series of high-level meetings in the USA. My main tasks consisted in providing dialogue facilitation support on a series of technical issues (right of return, compensation, creation of negotiation options...) as well as expertise of the 1948 refugee issue.
I conducted a review of the French Anti-personnel Landmine Policy under the ‘Ottawa Convention’. I served a Member of the French delegation to the 9th Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction.
I conducted fieldwork and on-site investigations on the social conditions in Palestinian refugee camps in West Bank/Gaza, Jordan and Lebanon. I worked in several refugee camps, including in Gaza.
I started my career as a full-time staff member of the UN Security Council, helping pioneer modern war reparation and transitional justice programs in the aftermath of the first Gulf War.
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