Sarah Brockmeier is a project manager with the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. She works on mass atrocity prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, UN peacekeeping and German foreign policy.

As part of GPPi’s research project Global Norm Evolution and the Responsibility to Protect, Sarah has published articles on Europe and the Responsibility to Protect and on the German vote of abstention on UN Security Council Resolution 1973 that authorized military intervention in Libya in 2011. She co-authored Protection and Responsibility: An Analysis of US Foreign Policy to Prevent Mass Atrocities with GPPi’s Philipp Rotmann and Gerrit Kurtz. Her commentary has been featured in DIE ZEIT and Süddeutsche Zeitung, among others. 

Since 2010 Sarah has served as a board member and deputy director of Genocide Alert, a German advocacy group that seeks to raise awareness on mass atrocity prevention and response. During the 20th commemoration of the Rwandan genocide in 2014 she published the first ever detailed examination of Germany’s role before, during and after the genocide. 

Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree in international politics and history from Jacobs University Bremen and completed an exchange semester at Sciences Po Paris in 2008. After her undergraduate studies, Sarah worked for two years at the United Nations Development Operations Coordination Office in New York supporting reforms on internal UN coordination. Before joining GPPi, Sarah completed an MPhil in international relations at the University of Cambridge. For her studies in Bremen and Cambridge and as a fellow with the Carlo Schmid Programme, Sarah received scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

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