- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- melis@iss.nl
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Profile
Samantha Melis is a PhD candidate involved in the research project on disaster response in post-conflict settings. She has conducted research in three case study countries: Nepal, Sierra Leone and Haiti. For more information about this research project, please visit: www.iss.nl/whendisastermeetsconflict.
Samantha has both research and professional experience in (post)conflict countries, working as a Programme Advisor for ZOA in Burundi, coordinating an impact-evaluation research in Liberia and conducting research in the Palestinian Terroritories. She has further been involved in short-term work for the Palestinian Hydrology Group in Ramallah and The Carter Center in Atlanta.
She has an interdisciplinary academic background: BA Liberal Arts and Sciences, MA Conflict Studies and Human Rights and MSc Cultures and Development Studies.
- S. Melis & D.J.M. Hilhorst (2020). When the mountain broke. Disaster governance in Sierra Leone. Disaster Prevention and Management. doi: 10.1108/DPM-03-2020-0076
- D.J.M. Hilhorst, R.A. Mena Fluhmann, R.S. van Voorst, I. Desportes & S. Melis (2019). Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Response in Different Conflict Scenarios. In Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) 2019. Geneva: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
- S. Melis (2018). The Fragile State of Disaster Response: Understanding Aid-State-Society Relations in Post-conflict Settings. In H Brauch, Ú Oswald Spring & A Collins (Eds.), Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene (The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, 25) (pp. 67-93). Cham: Springer [go to publisher's site] doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-97562-7_4
- D.J.M. Hilhorst, I. Desportes, S. Melis, R.A. Mena Fluhmann & R.S. van Voorst (2020). When Disaster Meets Conflict: A scenario-based approach to the politics of disaster governance in conflict settings. : VICI-ISS
- D.J.M. Hilhorst, M.J. Vervest, I. Desportes, S. Melis, R.A. Mena Fluhmann & R. Van Voorst (2020). Strengthening community resilience in conflict: learnings from the Partners for Resilience programme. (Preprints, ISS Working Papers - General Series, no 666). The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- D. Hilhorst, R. Van Voorst, R.A. Mena, I. Desportes & S. Melis (2019). Disaster Response and Humanitarian Aid in Different Conflict Scenarios. : United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
- S. Melis (2019). Questioning 'the local' in 'localisation': A multi-local reply. (blog). blISS. (available: 18 Feb 2019).
- R. Mena, D. Hilhorst & S. Melis (2017). Conflicts and disasters: an integrated debate for peacebuilding and development. (nieuwsbrief). IPRA (International Peace Research Association). (available: 30 Jan 2017).
- S. Melis (2020, december 17). Constructing disaster response governance in post-conflict settings: Contention, collaboration and compromise. EUR Prom./coprom.: prof.dr.ir. D.J.M. Hilhorst, R.J Apthorpe & R.S. van Voorst.
(external) researcher
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
- Department
- Academic staff unit
- Country
- The Netherlands
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- Role
- Member of Framer's Group
- Obtained Wage
- no
- Start date approval
- Jul/2019