Judith Vorrath is a Senior Associate in the International Security Division of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. She has published widely on peace and security in sub-Saharan Africa, including on illicit economies in conflict-affected states, as well as on UN peace and security, in particular UN sanctions and peacekeeping. More recently, she has been focusing on changing violence in armed conflict, in particular against civilians, and operational approaches to reduce such violence. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at SWP, the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., and the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris. Judith holds a Doctor of Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
