Sarah McIntosh heads the Human Security Program at the Center on National Security, where she works with victims and survivors of atrocities to develop and implement effective justice strategies. She also leads the Center’s work on a multi-institutional project to improve legal and policy frameworks for protecting civilians from the cumulative impact of conflict over time.

She is Deputy Director of the Atrocity Response Coalition for Justice, an interdisciplinary consortium of atrocity survivors and their allies dedicated to fostering long-term peace and healing through trauma-informed, evidence-based policy-making. The consortium includes survivor leaders, clinical psychologists, data scientists, epidemiologists, and law and policy experts.

She is the author of “Pursuing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Handbook for Victim Groups,” which has been translated into four languages, as well as the Victim and Survivor Consultation Protocol for policy-makers.

She formerly served as Policy and International Justice Manager at the Ferencz International Justice Initiative of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, where she worked with victims from numerous atrocity settings, including South Sudan and Ethiopia. She has a Bachelor of Laws and international studies from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School. She is admitted as a solicitor at the Supreme Court of New South Wales.