He is the founding director of the Gomidas Institute in London, which sponsors and carries out research and publishes books on modern Armenian and regional studies.

The Gomidas Institute has also published the memoirs of former US Ambassador to Armenia John Evans[9] and it has collaborated with the Hrant Dink Foundation.

[11] In February 2007, Sarafian accepted the suggestion of the then-chairman of the Turkish Historical Society, Yusuf Halaçoğlu, to cooperate on a joint project.

[18] The Nation magazine has called Sarafian "the leading authority on the history of the [Armenian] genocide in the English language.

[20] The second film, John Lubbock's 100 Years Later (2015), focused on Sarafian's work with Kurdish civil society organisations in Turkey around the 100th anniversary of the start of the Armenian genocide of 1915.