International Justice Lab

📔 “The Afterlives of Transitional Justice” — the 2025 Special Issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (@OxUniPress), co-edited by Profs @kelly_zvobgo & Francesca Parente — is out now! You can read their editors’ introduction at the link in the comments below.

📖 Hot off the press! @kelly_zvobgo's new book, "Governing Truth: NGOs and The Politics of Transnational Justice," is now available. Order your copy now to learn how civil society groups shape transitional justice: 🔗 brook.gs/4aBnG7c

Ahead of the four-year mark of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 11 Brookings experts answer key questions on Ukraine, Russia, Europe, the United States, and the prospects for peace. Read their analysis:🔗 brook.gs/4bUEJDA

Making sense of the US military operation in Venezuela: Brookings experts weigh in brookings.edu/articles/makin…

For @BrookingsFP today, IJL director @kelly_zvobgo discusses the limits of int’l law—and the possible end of the rules-based int’l order as we’ve known it since WWII—after the US attack on #Venezuela on Saturday and the capture of Pres. Maduro and First Lady Flores. (link below)

On January 3, the United States launched a special operation to exfiltrate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife from Caracas. @BrookingsInst experts unpack the immediate implications of this operation for the U.S. and Venezuela: brook.gs/3KYmCBK

#OnThisDay 60 years ago, the UN Convention against racial discrimination was adopted — a milestone in the fight against racism. Today, as we celebrate progress, we must stay vigilant against growing divisions around the world. #FightRacism #ICERD60

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Happy #HumanRightsDay! 77 years ago the newly formed @UN set out to protect human rights through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Check out the @goodauth archives for IJL director @kelly_zvobgo’s writing on this milestone and the work that still remains. Link below.

📸: Alexus Kruse

It was a pleasure hosting Jill Dougherty @jillrussia at @williamandmary to discuss her new book tracing her journey from teenage Russophile to exchange student in Leningrad to frontrow witness to political & econ upheaval under Gorbachev, Yeltsin & Putin during her time at @CNN.

Come join us on Thursday night for great conversation with @kelly_zvobgo and @jillrussia here at @williamandmary with @global_wm

Next week! Inside the Kremlin: A Conversation with Jill Dougherty @jillrussia, moderated by @kelly_zvobgo Nov. 13, 6PM, @williamandmary Music Arts Center, Comey Recital Hall Dougherty, currently @CERESGeorgetown, will discuss her journalism career and new @simonschuster book!

The Role of Networks in Advancing Human Rights: Making Human Connections Edited by Shareen Hertel (@UConn), Mark Gibney (@UncAvl), & Bonny Ibhawoh (@McMasterU) e-elgar.com/shop/usd/the-r…

📚 The Role of Networks in Advancing Human Rights is out! Francesca Parente (@CNUReiffCenter) & IJL Director @kelly_zvobgo’s chapter discusses how cross-institutional collaborations can advance research, teaching, mentorship & service in human rights. See the comment below FMI.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/fpa/or…

📄New publication: IJL Director @kelly_zvobgo and @ajsimmons1987 have a new article in @FPA_Jrnl presenting results from a novel survey experiment on U.S. public opinion on investigating and, possibly, prosecuting U.S. personnel for suspected atrocities in the war in Afghanistan!

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Zvobgo and Simmons (2025) show that most Americans still support ICC war crimes investigations, even when U.S. personnel are targeted, though national interest arguments can dampen this support. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/21…

For three years, the world's attention has been focused on the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. But it's wise to take a broader look: as @WorldBank 's latest report points out, 70% of people trapped in conflict and instability are Africans. worldbank.org/en/research/pu…

Read it here: doi.org/10.1086/732982

📄 New publication: IJL Director @kelly_zvobgo and Affiliated Scholar @StephenChaudoin have a new article in @The_JOP, featuring the largest-ever survey experiment on public opinion on @IntlCrimCourt (N > 10,000 ppl across Georgia, Israel, Philippines, South Africa, and the US)!