Research & Publications

Deloffre, Maryam Zarnegar, (2022). “The Power of Doing: Constitutive Steering Practices and the Making of Steering Committees,” in The Why and How of Global Governors: Relational Agency in World Politics, International Studies Review, 24:4. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viac054

Rafanelli, Lucia, (2022). “Justice, Injustice, and Artificial Intelligence: Lessons from Political Theory and Philosophy,” Big Data and Society, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517221080676

Potts, Alina with Loujine Fattal and Harriet Kolli (2022). “Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods” (2022: Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice).

Deloffre, Maryam Zarnegar (2021). “Metagovernance Norms and Polycentricity in Global Humanitarian Governance.” International Studies Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viab030

Hor, Amoz JY (2021). “The everyday emotional lives of aid workers: How humanitarian anxiety gets in the way of meaningful local participation.” International Theory. 1-30. doi:10.1017/S1752971921000166

Khardori, Amit (2021). “What Does the State Owe to Its People? Toward a ‘Responsibility to Develop,'” 46 BYU L. Rev. 1027 (2021).

Barada, R.; Potts, A.; Bourassa, A.; Contreras-Urbina, M.; Nasr, K. (2021) “I Go up to the Edge of the Valley, and I Talk to God”: Using Mixed Methods to Understand the Relationship between Gender-Based Violence and Mental Health among Lebanese and Syrian Refugee Women Engaged in Psychosocial Programming. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 4500. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094500

Potts, Alina, Rassil Barada and Angela Bourassa (2021) “GBV and mental health among refugee and host community women in Lebanon,” Forced Migration Review, 66: March.

Kohrt, Brandon A. et al (2021) “COVID-19 mental health impact and responses in low-income and middle-income countries: reimagining global mental health,” The Lancet.

Kohrt, Brandon A. and Lauren Carruth (2020) “Syndemic effects in complex humanitarian emergencies: A framework for understanding political violence and improving multi-morbidity health outcomes,” Social Science and Medicine.

Pereira A, Peterman A, Neijhoft AN, Buluma R, Daban RA, Islam A, Kainja ETV, Kaloga IF, Kheam T, Johnson AK, Maternowska MC, Potts A, Rottanak C, Samnang C, Shawa M, Yoshikawa M, Palermo, T. (2020) “Disclosure, reporting and help seeking among child survivors of violence: A Cross-Country Analysis. BMC Public Health 20: 1051“. 

Maternowska M.C., Fry D., Potts A., Casey T. (2020) “Beyond Risk Factors: Structural Drivers of Violence Affecting Children” In: Balvin N., Christie D. (eds) Children and Peace. Peace Psychology Book Series. Springer, Cham. 

Rafanelli, Lucia (2020) “Toward an Individualist Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism,” contribution to a symposium on Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019), Millennium: Journal of International Studies.

Van Geldera N, Peterman A, Potts A, O’Donnell M, Thompson K, Shah N, Oertelt-Prigionea S. (2020) “COVID-19: Reducing the risk of infection might increase the risk of intimate partner violence“. EClinicalMedicine 21: 100348. 

Rafanelli, Lucia (2019) “Promoting Justice Across Borders,” Political Studies.

Rafanelli, Lucia M. (2021) Promoting Justice Across Borders: The Ethics of Reform Intervention. New York: Oxford University Press.

Barnett, Michael N. (2020) Humanitarianism and Human Rights: A World of Differences?. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Potts A, Kolli A, Hedge E, Ullman C. Empowered Aid: Participatory Action Research with Refugee Women & Girls to Better Prevent Sexual Exploitation and Abuse—Uganda Results Report. Washington, DC: The George Washington University and Uganda.

Deloffre, Maryam Zarnegar (2022) The Sphere Project: Imagining Better Humanitarian Action through Reflective Accountability Institutions and Practices in Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation, Katja Freistein, Bettina Mahlert, Sigrid Quack, and Christine Unrau (editors). Edward Elgar.

Deloffre, Maryam Zarnegar (2020) “Non-governmental Organizations and the Peace, Security, and Development Nexus” in Routledge Handbook of Peace, Security, and Development Fen Osler Hampson, Alpaslan Ozerdem, Jonathan Kent (Eds.). Taylor and Francis, pp. 420-432.

Feldman, Ilana (2020) “Reckoning with Time: Vexed Temporalities in Human Rights and Humanitarianism,” in Michael Barnett (ed.) Humanitarianism and Human Rights: A World of Differences?. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 203-218.

Rafanelli, Lucia (2020) Review of C.A.J. Coady, Ned Dobos, and Sagar Sanyal eds., Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand & Political Reality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), Journal of Moral Philosophy, 17, 2: 229-32.

Potts, Alina (2022). “Engaging women and girls as safeguarding experts, using creative and participatory methods,” Evidence and Policy Blog, August 10, 2022.

Hor, Amoz JY (2022). “Aid worker emotions can obstruct meaningful local humanitarianism,” LSE Africa, June 13, 2022.

Hor, Amoz JY (2022). “NATO was founded to protect ‘civilized’ people. That means White,” The Monkey Cage, Washington Post, April 12, 2022.

Summers, Katherine (2022). “Temporary Protected Status Policy Needs Reform,” International Policy Digest, April 5, 2022.

Deloffre, Maryam Zarnegar (2022). “Six months after a tornado, Upper Dublin shouldn’t look this bad,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March, 21, 2022. 

Jachimowicz, Adam (2021). “Operation Medical Surge: Expanding hospital and bed capacity in Washington DC in response to COVID-19,” Constructor Magazine, September 30, 2021.

Barnett, Michael (2021). “Humanitarian organizations won’t listen to groups on the ground, in part because of institutionalized racism,” The Monkey Cage, The Washington Post, June 8, 2021.

Deloffre, Maryam Zarnegar (2021). “An Independent Commission for Voices in Crisis: Changing the referee instead changing the game,” Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) Blog, April 26, 2021.

Barnett, Michael (2020). “The Humanitarian Global Colour Line,” (Blog) ALNAP, July 28.

Deloffre, Maryam Zarnegar (2020) “Failed or Failsafe?: Global Pandemic Response as Polycentric Governance,” Global Cooperation Research: A Quarterly Magazine, Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, April 17, pp. 8-9.

Deloffre, Maryam Zarnegar (2020) “It’s not too Late to Stem the Third Wave of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Bottom-up approaches to Pandemic Response,” Opinion: Scientific Blog, Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, April 1.

O’Donnell M, Peterman A, Potts A. (2020) “A Gender Lens on COVID-19: Pandemics and Violence against Women and Children.” Blog post. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development. 

Potts A. (2020) “Pandemics in Crisis-Affected Settings: Ensuring Women & Girls Are Not Forgotten.” Global Women’s Institute Blog, April 1, 2020. 

Peterman A, Potts A, O’Donnell M, Thompson K, Shah N, Oertelt-Prigionea S, Van Geldera N. (2020) “Pandemics and Violence Against Women and Children“. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development.   

 

 

Kaisi, Jihan, Rosy Haddad, Loujine Fattal and Alina Potts (2021) “Localizing knowledge generation during a pandemic to make distributions safer,” in Localization and Local Humanitarian Action, Humanitarian Exchange: No. 79, May, pp. 105-109.

Graff, Corinne (ed) (2020) “Addressing Fragility in a Global Pandemic: Elements of a successful U.S. strategy.” United States Institute of Peace.

 

The Global Women’s Institute  GWI at the George Washington University published Empowered Aid “Toolkit for Planning & Monitoring Safer Aid Distributions” and its accompanying webinar, as well as Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) risk mitigation piloting reports from Lebanon and Uganda. GWI also launched the Empowered Aid online course.

Empowered Aid Webinar: Phase 1 Results & Recommendations Launch

In honor of World Refugee Day 2020, the Global Women’s Institute (GWI) hosted a webinar launch sharing Empowered Aid’s Phase I findings and recommendations on reducing risks of sexual exploitation and abuse when accessing humanitarian aid in Lebanon and Uganda. You can watch the full recording with the Empowered Aid team, including the presentation and Q&A discussion.

The full reports and other resources mentioned are available on this web page under the “Reports, policy briefs and articles” and “Manuals and toolkits” tabs.  

Speakers
GWI: Alina Potts (PI), Research Scientist & Elizabeth Hedge, Empowered Aid Research Associate
CARE International in Lebanon: Loujine Fattal, Empowered Aid Research Manager & Farah Hallak, Empowered Aid Project Officer
IRC Uganda: Harriet Kolli, Empowered Aid Research Manager & Fatuma Nafish, Empowered Aid Project Officer

Please note: The audio of our Uganda project officer, Fatuma Nafish, is a bit difficult to hear; it is captioned however you can also watch Fatuma speak here. You will have the option to turn on closed captions.

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Safeguarding Resource & Support Hub (RSH) Recording

Empowered Aid’s Primary Investigator Alina Potts, alongside Empowered Aid Lebanon Research Officer Tala Chammas, recently participated in a webinar organized by the UK Government’s Safeguarding Resource & Support Hub (RSH). Through this webinar, participants were able to understand and consider what needs to be in place specifically when making research, programs, and monitoring and evaluation safe for both participants and researchers. Alina and Tala share their own experiences on the ground in both Uganda and Lebanon and explore in what ways Empowered Aid utilizes various participatory methodologies in relation to training and risk management, especially given the sensitivity of sexual exploitation, abuse, and sexual harassment (SEAH) in the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar recording can be accessed here, as well as follow along the Q&A and presentation slides here.