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
- 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!)
- See also @emilysbremer.bsky.social's very thoughtful review of an earlier version for Jotwell: adlaw.jotwell.com/toward-a-cro... Many thanks for this, Emily! @dukelaw.bsky.social @jonpetkun.bsky.social 2/2
- Beyond grateful to have been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and to join such a wonderful group of fellows. www.gf.org/stories/anno...
- Congratulations @oonahathaway.bsky.social!!
- Inspired 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....
- AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies" is now available to read and features and incredible line-up of scholars. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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View full threadThanks so much, Ryan! Looking forward to future conversations soon!
- Very excited to read all of these essays!
- 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....
- 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:
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- 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
- he joined The Syria Justice & Accountability Centre @sjac-info.bsky.social to support their crucial work on capacity-building for Syrian human rights defenders—a dream job. It's devastating to see SJAC & so many other non-profits forced to suspend programs 2/3 syriaaccountability.org/sjac-suspend...
- in response to stop-work orders & the foreign aid freeze, decimating entire sectors of jobs overnight and endangering local partners & beneficiaries: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0.... To Imad and others affected: Thank you for your important work, which I hope will be able to continue soon!
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- @harvardlil.bsky.social is working on this at lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01...
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- 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...
- As noted by @laurenleharper.bsky.social, the removal of these datasets from data.gov may violate the Open Government Data Act and other laws: bsky.app/profile/laur...
- Ominous heads-up from Duke anticipating likely effects of Executive Orders on our research operations:
- 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
- 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/...
- 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
- Great job opportunity for a data scientist interested in empirical legal scholarship @dukelaw.bsky.social: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-D...
- 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...
- 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
- 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
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- 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...
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- Adding you both to my list above @melissagatter.bsky.social!
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- Thanks just added you and @humoutcomes.bsky.social!
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- 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...
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- Yes of course! I think I've added you and others who have replied but please follow up if I missed any. Looking forward to following everyone's work!
- 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_...
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- Of course, Imad, adding you now!
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- Of course, adding now! @jemtseva.bsky.social, great to see you here!
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- Started a working list of researchers, journalists, and practitioners working on humanitarian aid, peacebuilding/peacekeeping, and development in fragile and conflict-affected settings, please let me know if I missed you or anyone else who should be added! go.bsky.app/BWQc97Aat://did:plc:die2fzrt756jez3ajcpsh3uf/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lapk5mx4q223
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- Thanks Katrin, adding you and JISB now!
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- 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...
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- For 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
- Thanks for including me on this great list!
- 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
- Hello! 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
- Thanks so much for making this great list!
- 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...
