Melissa Labonte
Biographic Data
| ID | 1406576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Labonte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Labonte |
| SIGNATURE | LABONTE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Accessing and Implementing Human Rights and Justice
Accessing human rights and justice mechanisms is a pressing issue in global politics. Although an understanding of justice is inherent in broad human rights discourses, there is no clear consensus on how to develop adequate means of accessing them in order to make a difference to people’s lives. Further, expansions of the boundaries of both human rights and justice make any clear and settled understanding of the relation difficult to ascertain. T…
Women, Peace, and Security
Arturo Sotomayor, The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper
Collaborative Learning and Innovative Assessment in Humanitarian Studies
This article examines a multiyear project funded by the Teagle Foundation to assess student learning in humanitarian studies. It explores outcomes derived from developing a collaborative learning approach to humanitarian action that emphasizes both cross-campus and cross-institutional peer-to-peer learning and exchange. Faculty, staff, and students from Fairfield, Fordham, and Georgetown Universities worked together as members of the Jesuit Unive…
Challenges in humanitarian information management and exchange
There is a growing recognition of the critical role information management can play in shaping effective humanitarian response, coordination and decision-making. Quality information, reaching more humanitarian actors, will result in better coordination and better decision-making, thus improving the response to beneficiaries as well as accountability to donors. The humanitarian response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake marked a watershed moment for hu…
Towards a Typology of Humanitarian Access Denial
Classified by the UN as one of five core challenges to civilian protection, humanitarian access denial is an increasingly urgent dilemma facing humanitarian actors. Conventional thinking about humanitarian access denial focuses on its outcomes rather than factors that shape its occurrence. The norms associated with humanitarian access and civilian protection are highly institutionalised at the intergovernmental level, yet states demonstrate consi…
Empire of Humanity
Journal Article Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism by Michael Barnett Get access Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism by Michael Barnett. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2011. 312 pp. $29.95. Melissa Labonte Melissa Labonte Fordham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 127, Issue 2, Summer 2012, Pages 344–345, https://doi.org/10.1002/…
From patronage to peacebuilding? Elite capture and governance from below in Sierra Leone
Journal Article From patronage to peacebuilding? Elite capture and governance from below in Sierra Leone Get access Melissa T. Labonte Melissa T. Labonte * *Melissa T. Labonte ([email protected]) is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, Fordham University, New York. Fieldwork conducted for this research was made possible through the generous support of Fordham University. I am grateful to the many individuals in Sierra Leo…
Whose responsibility to protect? The implications of double manifest failure for civilian protection
Civilian protection has become an increasingly urgent issue with which humanitarian practitioners and policy-makers must contend, particularly in relation to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). In a number of recent crises, both the host state and the international community have failed to uphold their respective primary and secondary responsibilities to protect under R2P. In such double manifest failure settings, the actors to whom a disproport…
Dead aid
Relationship Between Sarcopenia and Fracture Risks in Obese Postmenopausal Women
It is known that obesity is inversely correlated with fracture risk. It remains unclear if a low muscle mass (sarcopenia) modulates the relationship between obesity and bone mass density. Twenty-seven obese women were matched for total fat mass (+/- 0.5 kg) and age (+/- 4 yrs) and divided in 3 equal groups: class II sarcopenic, class I sarcopenic, and nonsarcopenic. Body composition (DXA) and dietary intake were measured. Our results suggest that…
Same Car, Different Driver? The Impact of Peacebuilding Partnerships and the Chiefdom System in Sierra Leone
Practitioners and scholars in the humanitarian internationale focus on partnership type as a hedge against many of the traditional challenges and undesirable outcomes associated with peacebuilding. ‘Active’ partnerships are strongly encouraged; ‘dependent’ partnerships are to be avoided. The West African nation of Sierra Leone and its government-sponsored Community-driven Development (CDD) programme are an ideal lens through which to examine whet…
Dimensions of Postconflict Peacebuilding and Democratization
Blood on the Doorstep
From patronage to peacebuilding? Elite capture and governance from below in Sierra Leone
Journal Article From patronage to peacebuilding? Elite capture and governance from below in Sierra Leone Get access Melissa T. Labonte Melissa T. Labonte * *Melissa T. Labonte ([email protected]) is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, Fordham University, New York. Fieldwork conducted for this research was made possible through the generous support of Fordham University. I am grateful to the many individuals in Sierra Leo…
Challenges in humanitarian information management and exchange
There is a growing recognition of the critical role information management can play in shaping effective humanitarian response, coordination and decision-making. Quality information, reaching more humanitarian actors, will result in better coordination and better decision-making, thus improving the response to beneficiaries as well as accountability to donors. The humanitarian response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake marked a watershed moment for hu…
Whose responsibility to protect? The implications of double manifest failure for civilian protection
Civilian protection has become an increasingly urgent issue with which humanitarian practitioners and policy-makers must contend, particularly in relation to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). In a number of recent crises, both the host state and the international community have failed to uphold their respective primary and secondary responsibilities to protect under R2P. In such double manifest failure settings, the actors to whom a disproport…
Towards a Typology of Humanitarian Access Denial
Classified by the UN as one of five core challenges to civilian protection, humanitarian access denial is an increasingly urgent dilemma facing humanitarian actors. Conventional thinking about humanitarian access denial focuses on its outcomes rather than factors that shape its occurrence. The norms associated with humanitarian access and civilian protection are highly institutionalised at the intergovernmental level, yet states demonstrate consi…
Women, Peace, and Security
Collaborative Learning and Innovative Assessment in Humanitarian Studies
This article examines a multiyear project funded by the Teagle Foundation to assess student learning in humanitarian studies. It explores outcomes derived from developing a collaborative learning approach to humanitarian action that emphasizes both cross-campus and cross-institutional peer-to-peer learning and exchange. Faculty, staff, and students from Fairfield, Fordham, and Georgetown Universities worked together as members of the Jesuit Unive…
Empire of Humanity
Journal Article Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism by Michael Barnett Get access Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism by Michael Barnett. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2011. 312 pp. $29.95. Melissa Labonte Melissa Labonte Fordham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 127, Issue 2, Summer 2012, Pages 344–345, https://doi.org/10.1002/…
Dead aid
Same Car, Different Driver? The Impact of Peacebuilding Partnerships and the Chiefdom System in Sierra Leone
Practitioners and scholars in the humanitarian internationale focus on partnership type as a hedge against many of the traditional challenges and undesirable outcomes associated with peacebuilding. ‘Active’ partnerships are strongly encouraged; ‘dependent’ partnerships are to be avoided. The West African nation of Sierra Leone and its government-sponsored Community-driven Development (CDD) programme are an ideal lens through which to examine whet…
Dimensions of Postconflict Peacebuilding and Democratization
Dimensions of Postconflict Peacebuilding and Democratization
Blood on the Doorstep
Relationship Between Sarcopenia and Fracture Risks in Obese Postmenopausal Women
It is known that obesity is inversely correlated with fracture risk. It remains unclear if a low muscle mass (sarcopenia) modulates the relationship between obesity and bone mass density. Twenty-seven obese women were matched for total fat mass (+/- 0.5 kg) and age (+/- 4 yrs) and divided in 3 equal groups: class II sarcopenic, class I sarcopenic, and nonsarcopenic. Body composition (DXA) and dietary intake were measured. Our results suggest that…
Same Car, Different Driver? The Impact of Peacebuilding Partnerships and the Chiefdom System in Sierra Leone
Practitioners and scholars in the humanitarian internationale focus on partnership type as a hedge against many of the traditional challenges and undesirable outcomes associated with peacebuilding. ‘Active’ partnerships are strongly encouraged; ‘dependent’ partnerships are to be avoided. The West African nation of Sierra Leone and its government-sponsored Community-driven Development (CDD) programme are an ideal lens through which to examine whet…
Dead aid
Whose responsibility to protect? The implications of double manifest failure for civilian protection
Civilian protection has become an increasingly urgent issue with which humanitarian practitioners and policy-makers must contend, particularly in relation to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). In a number of recent crises, both the host state and the international community have failed to uphold their respective primary and secondary responsibilities to protect under R2P. In such double manifest failure settings, the actors to whom a disproport…
Empire of Humanity
Journal Article Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism by Michael Barnett Get access Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism by Michael Barnett. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2011. 312 pp. $29.95. Melissa Labonte Melissa Labonte Fordham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 127, Issue 2, Summer 2012, Pages 344–345, https://doi.org/10.1002/…
From patronage to peacebuilding? Elite capture and governance from below in Sierra Leone
Journal Article From patronage to peacebuilding? Elite capture and governance from below in Sierra Leone Get access Melissa T. Labonte Melissa T. Labonte * *Melissa T. Labonte ([email protected]) is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, Fordham University, New York. Fieldwork conducted for this research was made possible through the generous support of Fordham University. I am grateful to the many individuals in Sierra Leo…
Towards a Typology of Humanitarian Access Denial
Classified by the UN as one of five core challenges to civilian protection, humanitarian access denial is an increasingly urgent dilemma facing humanitarian actors. Conventional thinking about humanitarian access denial focuses on its outcomes rather than factors that shape its occurrence. The norms associated with humanitarian access and civilian protection are highly institutionalised at the intergovernmental level, yet states demonstrate consi…
Collaborative Learning and Innovative Assessment in Humanitarian Studies
This article examines a multiyear project funded by the Teagle Foundation to assess student learning in humanitarian studies. It explores outcomes derived from developing a collaborative learning approach to humanitarian action that emphasizes both cross-campus and cross-institutional peer-to-peer learning and exchange. Faculty, staff, and students from Fairfield, Fordham, and Georgetown Universities worked together as members of the Jesuit Unive…
Challenges in humanitarian information management and exchange
There is a growing recognition of the critical role information management can play in shaping effective humanitarian response, coordination and decision-making. Quality information, reaching more humanitarian actors, will result in better coordination and better decision-making, thus improving the response to beneficiaries as well as accountability to donors. The humanitarian response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake marked a watershed moment for hu…
Arturo Sotomayor, The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper
Women, Peace, and Security
Accessing and Implementing Human Rights and Justice
Accessing human rights and justice mechanisms is a pressing issue in global politics. Although an understanding of justice is inherent in broad human rights discourses, there is no clear consensus on how to develop adequate means of accessing them in order to make a difference to people’s lives. Further, expansions of the boundaries of both human rights and justice make any clear and settled understanding of the relation difficult to ascertain. T…
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (5 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (5 works) · Humanitarian aid (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)