Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo (she/her)

⭐NEWLY published: "Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy" in ISR #openaccess

Fantastic collaboration w/ @ninareiners.bsky.social
@kellyzvobgo.bsky.social @andreavilan.bsky.social @lisasundstrom.bsky.social @peacemedie.bsky.social @sch-ir.bsky.social Laura Henry & Soumita Basu 🙏

Journal Article Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy Open Access Nina Hall , Nina Reiners , Soumita Basu , Suparna Chaudhry , Laura Henry , Peace A Medie , Lisa Mcintosh Sundstrom , Andrea Vilán , Kelebogile Zvobgo International Studies Review, Volume 27, Issue 3, September 2025, viaf015, https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viaf015

✨ Our forum “Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy” is out #openaccess in International Studies Review ✨

👓: academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

@ninahall.bsky.social

I don’t know how fellow academics working on issues of human rights, migration, and international justice can call migrants “stock” even after being urged by colleagues (including me) not to do so because it is dehumanizing and seems at cross purposes with the work they’re doing. It’s appalling.

Ten years since the murder of Black Bible study worshippers by a white power activist in Charleston

Thank you!!

That appeal is different and is one worth studying!

We use our original survey experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of complementarity, a key ICC defense — the court investigates when governments fail to do so.

Does this message“work”? No, not really.

But null results aren’t null findings! We believe the ICC needs a new song to grow support.

Complementarity and Public Views on Overlapping International and Domestic Courts | The Journal of Politics: Vol 87, No 3 Can international organizations (IOs) boost support for their authority? We consider the effectiveness of appeals to the principle of complementarity, which holds that IOs only act when domestic insti...

📄 New publication: Stephen Chaudoin and I have a new article in @thejop.bsky.social, featuring the largest-ever survey experiment on public opinion on the ICC (N > 10,000 ppl across Georgia, Israel, Philippines, South Africa, and the US)!
doi.org/10.1086/732982

I didn’t follow the entire conversation, but when I was crossing the border in March, ISA attendees at the border were asked to open their laptops, show the invitation letter, and sometimes the titles of their papers. It did not feel safe and it’s a legitimate concern

*ask

FML

Anyway, academic social media squabbles are back, lmao.

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Don’t forget the drink tickets!!!

I’ll add that yeah, sometimes we need to call in favors, make big asks. By all means, we can ask; but we must show respect if folks say, “No.” Being “on the same team” means mutual respect, loyalty and support. I know about taking one for the team—it’s what I do—but I gotta aka now, is this my team?

My only contribution to The Discourse is that no conference is “a vital part” of my professional life and I don’t see participation as an act of “global solidarity.” If I participate, I do so for myself. We shouldn’t browbeat colleagues who decide to not attend – whatever their reasons.

Further, I thought we were teaching folks how to think logically and critically, how to use evidence to understand the world, and how to separate evidence from misinformation. That means some arguments are bad and wrong. We should be teaching folks to be uncomfortable making bad arguments. 3/3

The same goes for "conservatives don't feel comfortable discussing everything openly without censoring themselves." Do you know how frequently people from marginalized groups and progressives have to self-censor at the vast majority of institutions of higher ed? 2/3

I keep seeing people saying things like, "It is difficult to be a conservative at a University." If you think this is true, I beg you to spend some time at a public university in a red or purple state. Stop making generalizations based on private and/or elitist schools in the Northeast. 1/3

Let me say this again:

If a president can illegally deport someone, conspire with that country’s leader to abandon them to human rights abuses, and face no consequences, we are in a hellish authoritarian moment. What a fucking evil, illiberal government this is.

Strongman at The Hague: The fall of Duterte What could this mean for the likes of Putin and Netanyahu?

🎙️ Delighted to be featured in the latest installment of the @newstatesman.com’s Insight podcast with host @katiestallard.bsky.social, discussing former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte’s history-making arrest and transfer to the ICC.

www.newstatesman.com/podcasts/ins...

Class, this is how you achieve the Pareto optimal outcome of the prisoners’ dilemma, rather than the collectively worse equilibrium outcome.

🔟 Last but not least, Cath Collins and Selbi Durdiyeva reviewed three recent books that, like our field, are epistemologically and methodologically rich and diverse, to say nothing of the empirical cases they analyze in new light.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/ijtj...

9️⃣ In “Listening and Preparing the Society to Engage,” María Paula Prada Ramírez and Leslie Wingender reflect on their experience working with the Commission for Truth, Coexistence and Non-Recurrence in Colombia, incl. re: outreach, communication, and legacy.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/ijtj...

🎉 Congratulations @crawfordforwi.bsky.social on a hard-won victory!

8️⃣ In “The (Many) Afterlives of Transitional Justice,” Tine Destrooper and Elke Evrard conduct an important study of practitioner views of the field’s evolution. With 69 participants from 7 countries, this isn’t one to miss!

Link: doi.org/10.1093/ijtj...

Why did the Philippines turn over its former president to the ICC? If the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte’s case is any indication, a leader’s streak of avoiding accountability can run out.

⚖️ Last month, the ICC authorized an arrest warrant for former Philippines President Duterte, who is accused of the crime against humanity of murder in relation to the “war on drugs.” My just-published @brookings.edu commentary discusses this dramatic development. www.brookings.edu/articles/why...

7️⃣ In “Breaking the Echo Chambers,” Noha Aboueldahab invites an intellectual exchange between the field of transitional justice and Third World Approaches to International Law, with the goal of blending their respective foci on policy prescription and scholarly praxis.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/ijtj...

MASKED SECRET POLICE arrested a student on the sidewalk in broad daylight FOR WRITING AN OP/ED

We are absolutely at that point now

I am rather alarmed at the number of faculty who seem to be saying, "yes, the fascist takeover of universities is bad, but on the other hand, somebody in the Women's Studies Department said something mean about me."

Let’s be clear:

If the government can arrest, detain, and disappear peaceful protestors, none of us are free.

That’s not law and order. It’s fascism. And we should all be outraged that this is being done in our name.

6️⃣ In “Difficult Stories that Haunt,” Ulrike Lühe and @erinbaines.bsky.social challenge Western empirical social science approaches that transform narratives of harm and abuse into “clean” and “manageable” data for research analysis.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/ijtj...