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
- Important reading from @saskiabr.bsky.social on threats to women's rights in the context of democratic backsliding: "...Antidemocratic actors intentionally use gender to polarize the public and delegitimize broader human rights and equality norms." @carnegiedcg.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mara RevkinYou can read my take on Trump's illegal invasion of Venezuela here: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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- I appreciate @nytimes reporting on this often-forgotten crisis in Syria, but the article makes a common mistake: conflating 2 *VERY* different populations & sites: • (1) ISIS combatants in prisons • (2) civilians, mostly children, in humanitarian "closed camps" ... [thread 1/6]
- Reposted by Mara RevkinBy this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
- ICYMI in a very bad news week: On 9/9, Israel ordered a complete evacuation of Gaza City; aside from clear violations of international law, this powerful visual story @josh-h.bsky.social shows how residents have nowhere to go: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... See also: www.reuters.com/world/middle...
- Intentional starvation of civilians as a method of war is always a war crime. Non-reciprocity of international humanitarian law means that no amount of alleged aid diversion by Hamas could ever justify this. Horrifying but necessary reading, see also: www.btselem.org/sites/defaul... (1+ year ago)
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- 🚨FYI Search Committees! The extraordinarily talented and kind @benckrick.bsky.social will be on the political science job market soon-ish and some lucky department should hire him while you still can!
- Excited to share a new open-access article with @benckrick.bsky.social @jonpetkun.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social, "Civilian Harm & Military Legitimacy" www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... This project started in 2018 Mosul, Iraq’s 2nd largest city, in the aftermath of a 9-month battle … 1/7
- Grateful for the opportunity to write with @oonahathaway.bsky.social & @azmatzahra.bsky.social + work with @yalelawjournal.bsky.social on "The Dangerous Rise of 'Dual-Use' Objects in War": www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-.... More on data & methods here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
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- Must-read special issue in Dædalus (open-access!) on research ethics in the Middle East & North Africa by an extraordinary group of scholars covering threats to academic freedom, the politics & economics of knowledge production, disinformation, AI & much more: direct.mit.edu/daed/article....
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- 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
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- Congratulations @edebruin.bsky.social @gabriellalevy2.bsky.social, Livia Schubiger & @miweintraub83.bsky.social on this important contribution!
- 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....
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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
- 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...
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- 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/...
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- 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
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- 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/...
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- 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
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- Great job opportunity for a data scientist interested in empirical legal scholarship @dukelaw.bsky.social: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-D...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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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...
