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Congratulations @edebruin.bsky.social @gabriellalevy2.bsky.social, Livia Schubiger & @miweintraub83.bsky.social on this important contribution!

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

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....

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Thrilled 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.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

So looking forward to being part of, and learning from, this important conversation on Syria!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

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:

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Just 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

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

Ominous heads-up from Duke anticipating likely effects of Executive Orders on our research operations:

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

This 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/...

submitted 35 days ago • 9 comments

I 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...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

So 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/9V9zguB

submitted 39 days ago • 45 comments

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

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

Are 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...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

The 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⬇️

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

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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International 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)

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 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

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Looking 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.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Great job opportunity for a data scientist interested in empirical legal scholarship @dukelaw.bsky.social: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-D...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

The 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....

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

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...

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

Applications 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

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Here'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...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

An updated and complete list #2 of 150 social scientists of international migration, broadly defined, is now available go.bsky.app/G4NjiPz

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

Come 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...

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

Very 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...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

What 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...

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

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:

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

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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