Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé

Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé is a Full Professor at Bishop’s University and a Non-Resident Fellow at the International Peace Institute in New York. She is the Deputy Director of the FrancoPaix Centre. In 2018–2019, she held the Canada Fulbright Research Chair for Peace and War Studies. In 2021, she received the national 3M Teaching Excellence Award. She is an Associate Member of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies and of the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CERIUM).

Her research interests focus on intelligence in peace operations, peace operations more broadly, and intra-state conflicts. Her most recent publications include “Competing for Trust: Challenges in UN Peacekeeping-Intelligence.” She is the author of the first UN guidelines on gender and intelligence in peacekeeping and the co-author of the first United Nations manual for Joint Mission Analysis Centres (United Nations, 2018).

She has recently conducted field research at MINUSCA (Central African Republic), MINUSMA (Mali), MONUSCO (Democratic Republic of Congo), and UNMISS (South Sudan). She is also the co-host of the podcast “Conseils de sécurité,” a co-production of CDSN-RCDS and RAS-NSA.

Areas of Expertise

• Peace Operations

• United Nations

• Civil Wars

Selected Publications

• Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, “Competing for Trust: Challenges in United Nations Peacekeeping-Intelligence,” International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence (2020): 1–31.

• Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, Lou Pingeot & Vincent Pouliot, “The Power Politics of United Nations Peace Operations,” in International Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the Divide (Georgetown University Press, 2019).

• Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé & Stéfanie von Hlatky, “Peace first? What is Canada’s role in UN operations?” International Journal 73:2 (2018): 187–204.

• Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, Evaluating Peacekeeping Missions: A Typology of Success and Failure in International Interventions (Routledge, 2016).

• Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, “Assessing Peace Operations’ Mitigated Outcomes,” International Peacekeeping 19.2 (2012): 235–250.

• Defence
• Political Sciences
• Strategy