Luc Chounet-Cambas
Luc Chounet-Cambas joined the European Institute of Peace in January 2025 and will support the Palestine-Israel Programme. He is a mediation and peace process practitioner with over 20 years of experience advising governments, multilateral organisations, and civil society on conflict resolution and security policy. He has worked extensively in fragile and conflict-affected environments, including the Sahel, Lake Chad Basin, the Middle East, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia and the Philippines, supporting negotiations and disarmament efforts.
Luc has played a key role in designing and implementing armed violence reduction programmes. His expertise spans security arrangements, DDR processes, disengagement from proscribed groups, and stabilisation programming, with a strong focus on dialogue facilitation, stakeholder engagement and adaptive learning. He has worked with the United Nations system, NGOs, think tanks and private sector consultancies, contributing to policy development and research on peacebuilding and conflict transformation.
Luc is the author of Negotiating Ceasefires: Challenges and Options for Mediators (2011) and the Ceasefire Reading Pack for the UK Stabilisation Unit (2016), as well as other guidance materials on disengagement and disarmament. He holds an MPhil in African Studies from Paris La Sorbonne University and lives in Geneva, Switzerland.