Manon Blancafort

Manon Blancafort is a Project Assistant at the Small Arms Survey, where she has been working on unplanned explosions at munitions sites, the illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Afghanistan and Sudan, improvised explosive devices in West Africa, as well as on the Arms Trade Treaty in the Indo-Pacific region. Before joining the Survey, Blancafort interned with several United Nations offices, working on peace operations, sexual exploitation and abuse, and disarmament. She also served as an operational reservist for three years in the French Air and Space Forces, within a Protection Squadron.

Blancafort holds a Master in Peace, Security and Conflicts from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) as well as an International Humanitarian Law Degree from the Université Côte d’Azur (France) and the San Remo International Institute of Humanitarian Law (Italy).