Publications
BOOK
HPCR Practitioner’s Handbook on Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-Finding: Investigating International Law Violations, co-edited with Claude Bruderlein (Cambridge University Press: 2017).
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Armed Actor Interventions in Humanitarian and Public Health Crises: Examining Perspectives of Crisis-affected Community Members,” with Samuel T. Boland, Alexandria Nylen, Madison Bates, Maria Carinnes Alejandria, Zein Tayyeb, and Adam C. Levine, Conflict and Health, 18(33), 2024.
“Damage to Medical Complexes in the Israel-Hamas War: A Geospatial Analysis,” with
Danielle N. Poole, Daniel Andersen, Nathaniel A. Raymond, Trevor Smith, Kaveh Khoshnood,
and Hani Mowafi, BMJ Global Health, 9(2), 2024.
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“Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination During COVID-19: A Comparative Analysis of Local Responses,” with Samuel T. Boland and Josiah Kaplan, Stability, 11(1), 2023.
“Moving Humanitarian-Military Relations Forward: A New Typology,” with Maria Carinnes P. Alejandria, Madison Bates, Samuel T. Boland, Alexandria J. Nylen, Zein Tayyeb, and Adam C. Levine, Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 8(2), 2023.
“Confronting Humanitarian Insecurity: The Law and Politics of Responding to Attacks against Aid Workers,” with Julia Brooks, Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2(1), 2020.
“Humanitarian Negotiation with Parties to Armed Conflict: The Role of Laws and Principles in the Discourse,” Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, 11(1), 2020: 68-96.
“Emerging Technologies and Medical Countermeasures to Chemical, Biological, Radiation, and Nuclear Agents in East Ukraine,” with Sonny S. Patel, Mykola Prodanchuk, Patrick Chellew, Olha Romaniuk, Yuriy Skrebets, Sergii A. Ryzhenko, and Timothy B. Erickson, Conflict and Health, 14, 2020.
“The Humanitarian as Negotiator: Cultivating Capacity Across the Aid Sector,” Negotiation Journal, 36(1), Winter 2020: 13-41.
“Strategic Documentation of Violence Against Healthcare: Towards a Methodology for Accountability,” with Phuong Pham, Patrick Vinck, Adrienne Fricke, and Michael VanRooyen, World Health and Population, 16(4), 2016: 31-37.
“From Design to Implementation: The Interpretation of Fact-finding Mandates,” Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 20(1), Spring 2015: 27-60.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Incrementalism in International Law-Making: The Development of Normative Frameworks of Protection for Forcibly Displaced Persons,” in International Law and Time: Narratives and Techniques, eds. Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg, Luca Pasquet, and Leon Castellanos-Janckiewicz (Springer: 2022).
“Lessons From Two Regional Missions: Fact-Finding in Georgia and South Sudan,” in Commissions of Inquiry: Problems and Prospects, ed. Christian Henderson (Hart Publishing: 2017).
“Developing Norms of Professional Practice in the Domain of Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding,” with Claude Bruderlein, in The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-finding, eds. Philip Alston and Sarah Knuckey (Oxford University Press: 2015).
POLICY REPORTS
“Good Practices, Lessons Learned, and the Unique Challenges Affecting Security Risk Management in Urban Humanitarian Responses,” Global Interagency Security Forum, December 2023.
“Same Space – Different Mandates: A Civil-Military-Police Guide for Stakeholders in International Disaster and Conflict Response,” with Natasha Chabbra, Beth Eggleston, Jules Frost, Idha Kurniasih and David Tuck, Australian Civil-Military Centre and Australian Council for International Development, March 2023.
“Humanitarian-Military Relations in Complex Emergencies: Evidence, Insights, and Recommendations,” with Maria Carinnes P. Alejandria, Samuel T. Boland, Hank Brightman, Adam C. Levine, Alexandria J. Nylen, David Polatty, and Zein Tayyeb, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, May 2022.
“Humanitarian Access, Great Power Conflict, and Large-Scale Combat Operations,” with Brittany Card and Tarana Sable, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, February 2022.
“Four Dilemmas of Acceptance: Insights from the Field of Humanitarian Negotiation,” with Alain Lempereur, Global Interagency Security Forum, December 2021.
“Diversity and Humanitarian Negotiation,” with Reem Alsalem, The Humanitarian Leader, April 2021.
“Re-assessing the Civil-Military Coordination Service of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Findings and Recommendations Based on Partners’ Perspectives,” with Brittany Card, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, September 2020.
“Surmounting Contemporary Challenges to Humanitarian-Military Relations,” Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, August 2020.
“Realities and Myths of the Triple Nexus: Local Perspectives on Peacebuilding, Development, and Humanitarian Action in Mali,” with Emmanuel Tronc and Anaide Nahikian, Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, June 2019.
“Humanitarian Access Obstruction in Somalia: Externally Imposed and Self-Inflicted Dimensions,” with Emmanuel Tronc and Anaide Nahikian, Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, November 2018.
“From Isolation to Interoperability: The Interaction of Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding Missions and International Criminal Courts and Tribunals,” with Jill E. B. van Voorhout, The Hague Institute for Global Justice and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, December 2014.
“Building Effective Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding Mechanisms,” with Claude Bruderlein, Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University, April 2012.
OP-EDS AND COMMENTARIES
“When Security Risk Management and Technology Collide: Getting Humanitarian Notification Systems Right,” Global Interagency Security Forum, January 2023.
“We Are All Humanitarian Negotiators Now: 3 Steps for Planning Your ‘Please Take Social Distancing Seriously’ Conversation,” The Conversation, March 2020.
“The Impact of Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding Missions,” Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection, April 2014.
“On Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding Mechanisms,” co-authored with Claude Bruderlein, European Society of International Law Reflections, July 2012.
“Abandoning Sabotage in Iran,” Foreign Policy in Focus, October 2010.
“U.S. vs. ICC?” Foreign Policy in Focus, June 2010.