Arthur Boutellis is a Non-resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute, where he was Director of the Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations, and teaches a graduate-level seminar at Columbia University in New York and Sciences Po Paris. Before that he served with the United Nations in various field missions. He is the author of Rivalités pour la paix – Géopolitique de l’ONU (Armand Colin, Septembre 2025) and The UN Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) – Peacekeeping Caught in the Geopolitical Crossfire (Palgrave Macmillan, Octobre 2024), holds a Master of Public Affairs from Princeton University and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas.
Expertise
- United Nations
- Peace and Stabilization Operations
- Armed Groups / Mediation & Security Arrangements
Selected Publications
- Arthur Boutellis & Michael Beary, “Sharing the Burden: Lessons from the European (and Canadian) Return to Multidimensional Peacekeeping,” International Peace Institute, January 2020.
- Arthur Boutellis, “Rethinking UN Peacekeeping Burden-Sharing in a Time of Global Disorder,” Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 13 (2020): 193–209.
- Marie-Joëlle Zahar & Arthur Boutellis, “The Challenges of Mediation in Gray Zones: The Case of Mali,” In Handbook on Mediating International Crises (Edward Elgar, 2019).
- Arthur Boutellis & Naureen Chowdhury Fink, “Waging Peace: UN Peace Operations Confronting Terrorism and Violent Extremism,” International Peace Institute, October 2016.
- Paul D. Williams & Arthur Boutellis, “Partnership Peacekeeping: Challenges and Opportunities in the United Nations–African Union Relationship,” African Affairs 113:451 (2014): 254–278.
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