Mara Revkin is an Associate Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. She is also a Nonresident Scholar in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her primary research interests are in armed conflict, peace-building, transitional justice, migration, and policing with a regional focus on the Middle East and Africa. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods including surveys, experiments, interviews, and archival research, and has conducted field research in Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and South Sudan. In addition to her academic research, she has worked with and advised United Nations agencies and other humanitarian and development organizations on the design of evidence-based programs and policies that aim to strengthen rule of law and the protection of human rights, support peaceful reconciliation after conflict, and mitigate the root causes of political violence. Her work has been published in The Journal of Politics, The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Journal of Global Security Studies, and World Development, among others. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a B.A. in Political Science and Arabic from Swarthmore College.
Mara Revkin is an Associate Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. She is also a Nonresident Scholar in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her primary research interests are in armed conflict, peace-building, transitional justice, migration, and policing with a regional focus on the Middle East and Africa. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods including surveys, experiments, interviews, and archival research, and has conducted field research in Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and South Sudan. In addition to her academic research, she has worked with and advised United Nations agencies and other…