Mara Revkin
Associate Professor of Law & Political Science @Duke. Conflict, migration, peacebuilding, transitional justice & humanitarian/development aid. Nonresident @carnegiedcg.bsky.social. Rhymes w/ @jonpetkun.bsky.social. Web: law.duke.edu/fac/revkin
- Reposted by Mara RevkinFYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
- Terrible news and a setback for research on police violence against civilians and the many students supported by @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social's NSF grant. Follow @gsslab.bsky.social for more about her important work with the Gender and Security Sector Lab: www.sabrinamkarim.com/gsslab
- Very excited about this new article by @jonpetkun.bsky.social & Joe Schottenfeld in the GW Law Review, "The Judicial Administrative Power"! Describes three functions of "nonadjudicatory activities" performed by federal courts: rulemaking, managing & communicating: www.gwlr.org/wp-content/u... 1/2
- Really proud of my new article with the extraordinary Joe Schottenfeld (coming to a job market near you in the not-too-distant future!). We consider the federal judiciary's vast "administrative" powers and offer a few modest ideas for reform. Read @ www.gwlr.org/the-judicial... (thank you editors!)
- Reposted by Mara RevkinReally proud of my new article with the extraordinary Joe Schottenfeld (coming to a job market near you in the not-too-distant future!). We consider the federal judiciary's vast "administrative" powers and offer a few modest ideas for reform. Read @ www.gwlr.org/the-judicial... (thank you editors!)
- Reposted by Mara RevkinAs many of you know, staff at the US Institute of Peace (myself included) were fired en masse last Friday night. It’s a tough beat -- my amazing colleagues deserve better. It’s also not over, as USIP’s board is contesting the DOGE takeover in court. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
- Reposted by Mara RevkinInspired by calls to reimagine the space currently populated by international criminal law, Meg deGuzman's and my essay engages in feminist dreaming—that is, seeks to reimagine accountability as it could be, viewed through a feminist lens. Now up @ssrn.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Congratulations @edebruin.bsky.social @gabriellalevy2.bsky.social, Livia Schubiger & @miweintraub83.bsky.social on this important contribution!
- Just published on APSR First View: "Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia" by Erica DeBruin, Gabriella Levy, Livia Schubiger and Michael Weintraub. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Grateful to the editors & reviewers @iojournal.bsky.social for a very constructive review process and conditional acceptance of "Civilian Harm & Military Legitimacy in War: Evidence from the Battle of Mosul in Iraq" with @benckrick.bsky.social @jonpetkun.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Reposted by Mara RevkinThrilled to see my article -- showing how a private organization has shaped, and diluted, an international human rights norm -- in AJIL! It shows how a global sport governing body has responded to legal challenges by retrofitting 'gender equality' to align with exclusionary regulatory practices.
- Reposted by Mara RevkinSo looking forward to being part of, and learning from, this important conversation on Syria!
- Very excited for this discussion on prospects for peace & justice in post-Assad Syria at Duke on Feb. 11 with 3 of my favorite experts on human rights, humanitarian aid, civil society & justice, @rbkhoury.bsky.social @imad-alhajj21.bsky.social & Sara Kayyali, co-moderated with Adam Mestyan:
- Thank you for sharing your story @imad-alhajj21.bsky.social. For those who don't know Imad, we at Duke are incredibly proud of & inspired by his journey from Syria to a career in peacebuilding, humanitarian aid & transitional justice: sanford.duke.edu/story/2024-g.... After graduating in May ... 1/3
- Very excited for this discussion on prospects for peace & justice in post-Assad Syria at Duke on Feb. 11 with 3 of my favorite experts on human rights, humanitarian aid, civil society & justice, @rbkhoury.bsky.social @imad-alhajj21.bsky.social & Sara Kayyali, co-moderated with Adam Mestyan:
- Informative reporting by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on efforts by archivists to preserve datasets that are rapidly disappearing from data.gov; 2,000+ removed since Jan. 21. See @harvardlil.bsky.social's growing collection of 305K+ government datasets: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01...
- Thousands of datasets have disappeared from data.gov. Determining what's gone, why it's gone, and whether it moved elsewhere will to take time. Things are definitely being purged but archivists working hard to determine exactly what has happened to a given dataset www.404media.co/archivists-w...
- Reposted by Mara RevkinJust got a story approved to run on Monday on the crisis happening at the NSF. If you are an NSF-funded scientist and have been personally impacted by the funding pause this week, I'd love to hear from you. Reach me securely on Signal: 3162958947
- Ominous heads-up from Duke anticipating likely effects of Executive Orders on our research operations:
- Reposted by Mara RevkinThis is devastating news. The office is doing extremely important work to reduce civilian casualties caused by our own forces and setting new standards for other states in the process. More innocent civilians will die in conflict as a result. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
- Reposted by Mara RevkinI am currently developing an online speakers series where academics and practitioners can learn from each other about using data for good. Please take the following one-minute survey to let me know if you want to participate in this speakers series: forms.gle/Sd3kwX4aRweh...
- Reposted by Mara RevkinSo I made this starter pack about political scientists working in threats to democracy and then it went bonkers viral 😅. Any suggestions for this pack, pls let me know (including yourself!). PPL have gotten ~500 follows on it since *this morning*... #polisky go.bsky.app/9V9zguBat://did:plc:u57ugmveenw2uu3ns7pbcj4d/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lg6kiprqmp24
- ICYMI: Excellent and timely analysis of patterns of nonviolent civil organizing in Syria by @rbkhoury.bsky.social & @aasiegel.bsky.social for @goodauth.bsky.social summarizing their important new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @apsamena.bsky.social
- Thrilled to share this @goodauth.bsky.social analysis, and sneak peak of forthcoming research, with @aasiegel.bsky.social at such an incredible time for Syria. Activists, inside and outside the country, have been working for their cause and communities throughout a brutal war. 1/2
- Reposted by Mara RevkinAre you a PhD candidate studying political violence? Consider applying for the HFG Emerging Scholar award. $25k toward finishing up your diss. Deadline: 1 Feb. Details/Apply: www.hfg.org/emerging-sch...
- Reposted by Mara RevkinThe return and reintegration of Iraqis with perceived ISIL affiliation is crucial for post-conflict peacebuilding and stabilization. However, these returnees face steep social and economic barriers, @mararevkin.bsky.social @benckrick.bsky.social & Dr. Raed Aldulaimi find in their UNIDIR report⬇️
- New report by me, @benckrick.bsky.social & Dr. Raed al-Dulaimi for UNIDIR on attitudes toward Iraqis with perceived ties to ISIL based on original survey data and interviews. We find that stigmatization persists 8 years after ISIL's territorial defeat, even of children: unidir.org/publication/...
- Reposted by Mara RevkinInternational law and the issue of recognition of the government of #Syria under Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rule. By Justin Cole and Oona Hathaway (@oonahathaway.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Mara RevkinThe consortium is co-organized with the incredible Megan Stewart (@meganastewart.bsky.social) and Mara Revkin (@mararevkin.bsky.social). Together, we’re building a community of conflict scholars to foster collaboration across diverse methods and perspectives. 🎓 #Conflictsky
- Reposted by Mara Revkin🚨 Call for Proposals! 🚨 Seeking junior scholars of conflict & violence for the Multi-Method Conflict Consortium (M2C2) Mini-Conference: ✨ March 21-22 @ FSU ✨ $1,250 honorarium ✨ Eligible: <3 yrs tenure track ✨ Mentorship & panels 📄 Full CfP: bit.ly/M2C2-CfP 📅 Apply by Jan 10: bit.ly/M2C2-Submit
- Thanks @ayesharascoe.bsky.social @npr.org for inviting me to discuss ISIS' evolution since its territorial defeat: www.npr.org/2025/01/05/n.... More on ISIS' theory of the "gray zone" & how it exploits Islamophobic & anti-immigrant policies in my 2016 @foreignaffairs.com article tinyurl.com/4y3may85
- Reposted by Mara RevkinLooking to build tools to engage in more public or policy-relevant writing and research? The deadline for BtG's International Policy Summer Institute is 26 January. Happy to answer any questions for folks interested in applying.
- Great job opportunity for a data scientist interested in empirical legal scholarship @dukelaw.bsky.social: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-D...
- Reposted by Mara RevkinThe fall of the Assad regime in Syria once again raises the challenging issue of recognition of a new government. In this new article, forthcoming in NYU Law Review, we review the (extremely messy) international law of government recognition. You can read it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Important new book by @alichtenheld.bsky.social draws on field research in Uganda & Syria and an original dataset of 166 civil wars to show how armed groups use strategic displacement of civilians to "sort" rather than eliminate, inferring "guilt by location": www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
- Reposted by Mara RevkinApplications are open for the third year of the Pathways summer research program at MIT! Please share with interested undergrads. (TL;DR is: paid opportunity to check out PhD life for students who might not think it's open to them) @nlnathan.bsky.social
- Sounds like a great panel! Cc'ing a few others working on military effectiveness: @andrewmbell.bsky.social @mkguliford.bsky.social @risabrooks12.bsky.social @edebruin.bsky.social @proftalmadge.bsky.social
- Old but informative 2021 PBS interview with HTS leader al-Jolani in which he invited human rights organizations to visit the group's prisons in response to HRW's reporting on torture, and called on the U.S. to remove its "unfair" designation as a terrorist organization: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
- Reposted by Mara RevkinHere's one example of how we used geocausal to estimate the effects of different distributions of US airstrikes in Iraq on insurgent attacks (open access): academic.oup.com/jrsssb/artic...
- Reposted by Mara RevkinAn updated and complete list #2 of 150 social scientists of international migration, broadly defined, is now available go.bsky.app/G4NjiPzat://did:plc:lthbv3mftkc5wd57a4zf2poc/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbwxk4dakx2p
- Reposted by Mara RevkinCome work with me @Yale! I'm hiring a full-time RA to start in summer 2025, to work on understanding how to tax the super-rich and what drives sky-high US infrastructure construction costs. tobin.yale.edu/programs/pre...
- Reposted by Mara RevkinVery excited to deliver my inaugural lecture as Richardson Chair on the question whether international law is our last hope for global security. 26 Nov. 1700 (UK) In Oxford? The event is free to attend. It will also live-stream on Youtube. Registration link here: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/globa...
- Reposted by Mara RevkinWhat does gender have to do with the anti-democratic playbook? In my new piece for the @carnegieendow.bsky.social @carnegiedcg.bsky.social, I examine why and how patriarchy and authoritarianism are often interlinked, in the US and beyond: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
- Welcome to Bluesky @carnegiedcg.bsky.social! Follow the Democracy, Conflict & Governance Program @carnegieendow.bsky.social for research & analysis by @milanv.bsky.social @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social @saskiabr.bsky.social, me & more carnegieendowment.org/programs/dem...
- Thanks for sharing our working paper! Follow @polviolencepapers.bsky.social managed by @ilaydaonder.bsky.social for updates on new publications and working papers on political violence including armed conflict, extremism, and effects of conflict on states/societies:
- Working paper by @benckrick.bsky.social, @jonpetkun.bsky.social, and @mararevkin.bsky.social finds that civilians in areas affected by harm view armed forces as less legitimate, not only due to experiences with violence but also because of beliefs about the morality of armed forces’ conduct in war.
- Really looking forward to this timely conversation with UN-OCHA Senior Legal Officer Nathalie Weizmann & Prof. @eswein.bsky.social on humanitarian aid & protection of civilians on Nov. 22 @dukelaw.bsky.social: law.duke.edu/events/discu.... In-person, please RSVP: duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- A working list of researchers, practitioners, and organizations working on transitional justice, please let me know if I missed you or anyone else who should be added! bsky.app/starter-pack... Some overlap with but narrower focus than my other list on humanitarian aid, peacebuilding & development.at://did:plc:die2fzrt756jez3ajcpsh3uf/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb6bneng3j2w
- Looking forward to presenting a revised draft of my working paper with @benckrick.bsky.social & @jonpetkun.bsky.social, "Civilian Harm and Military Legitimacy in War: Evidence from the Battle of Mosul in Iraq," at the @asilorg.bsky.social Mid-Year Meeting: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- My new working paper with @benckrick.bsky.social & @jonpetkun.bsky.social on the relationship between civilian harm and perceptions of military legitimacy after the battle of Mosul in Iraq based on survey, satellite, and interview data for the Households in Conflict Network: hicn.org/working-pape...
- Reposted by Mara RevkinFor those just migration here, welcome! Here's the link to a human rights starter pack, feel free to add yourself or ping me to get added: go.bsky.app/UWaTFH3at://did:plc:tzkawiuct425jreijqejaiwm/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3layvl7vekd2i
- Welcoming more @dukelaw.bsky.social colleagues, please let me know if I missed you! go.bsky.app/VMCGXKeat://did:plc:die2fzrt756jez3ajcpsh3uf/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3latodvy75g2g
- Reposted by Mara RevkinHello! I thought a list of women scholars in conflict and security studies could be helpful! Let me know if you want to be added/removed! go.bsky.app/Np3NivXat://did:plc:zu7a4sxcpun4lc4ooyhl4c4h/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lawqwyrj2f2e
- New policy brief on the risk of mass atrocities in South Sudan from USHMM's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide: vault.ushmm.org/adaptivemedi...
