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This paper is a synthesis report from a project which examines how the WPS agenda can be integrated more strategically across different types of peacebuilding and post-conflict reform processes in order to enhance women’s influence and leadership within these processes and strengthen gender equality outcomes from them. It draws on several thematic...

Peacebuilding processes involve a wide range of change or reform processes through which the rules of political, social and economic exchange are contested and renegotiated to address the underlying causes of conflict. Reforming the rules governing the access and use of land and natural resources can be a key part of these processes. The Women, Pea...

Transitional justice agendas are increasingly informed by an awareness that conflict is experienced in gendered ways, and that efforts to address the legacies of violence and conflict therefore need to be gender-responsive. Transitional justice has also become a mainstream feature of transition processes from conflict or authoritarian rule. This is...

This ALIGN Briefing is a summary of discussion drawn from an expert meeting hosted by ALIGN and ODI in May 2021, entitled ‘Changing harmful norms to prevent violence against women in politics and leadership: charting a forward-looking agenda’. During the Covid-19 lockdown, ODI facilitated a closed door roundtable on Zoom with invited guests, expert...

Politically informed approaches to gender in fragile and conflict-affected settings

This ODI Briefing Paper explores the role that art and cultural activities can play in helping societies respond and give testimony to the experience of violence. It focuses on two case study locations in Michoacán in Mexico: Lázaro Cárdenas and Apatzingán. • In post-conflict settings, art and culture can contribute to healing and reconciliation,...

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Research paper on applying a problem-focused approach to addressing violence against women and girls, aimed at informing international programming on justice and security.

The paper reviews the political nature of rule of law development. It finds that there is a need for more qualitative research on political, institutional and social processes that result in different forms of rule of law and rule bound conduct by power holders. It further considers the implications for international support for rule of law advance...

Humanity hosted an online symposium on the changing nature of knowledge production in fragile states. In light of the intensification of evidence-based policymaking and the “data revolution” in development, the symposium asks what the ethical and political implications are for qualitative research as a tool of governance. The symposium begins with...

Key messages: - Women’s empowerment is a process of personal and social change through which they gain power, meaningful choices and control over their lives. - There are many pathways to women’s empowerment but important enabling conditions include women’s collective action, constitutional and legal reform, social and economic policy measures, a...

Literature review of links between advances in gender equality, peacebuilding and statebuilding

The report explores what strategic efforts to advance human rights might involve in fragile and conflict affected settings.

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INTRODUCTION The purpose in this chapter is to develop a framework of analysis to advance our understanding of the processes that have led to the adoption of novel legal strategies by a variety of social and political actors in recent Latin American politics, as well as to examine the changing political narratives around rights and the rule of law...

"Este artículo analiza la estabilidad y el cambio en los sistemas de partidos en América Latina, focalizando el estudio sobre la politización de los cleavages sociales y la emergencia de nuevos partidos étnicos. El trabajo explora los factores que han llevado a que en unos sistemas de partidos surjan nuevos partidos de base étnica (Ecuador o Bolivi...

The model of development around multiparty democratic rule and neoliberal policies which had shaped the assumptions and goals of what good governance should be in Bolivia from 1985 entered a period of crisis and change at the start of the new millennium. The Water War in Cochabamba in 2000 and the Gas War of 2003 that prefaced the dramatic collapse...

The forced resignation of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada from the presidency in October 2003 attests to the fragility of the process of democratization in Bolivia. A period of political and economic stability following the 1985 economic austerity measures prevailed for over ten years, but social discontent with the inadequacies of the political and econ...

The Rule of Law in Nascent Democracies: Judicial Politics in Argentina. By Rebecca Bill Chavez. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 272p. $55.00. This book is a welcome addition to a young but growing body of scholarly work on rule-of-law construction in new democracies from a political science perspective. Rebecca Bill Chavez develops a per...

This chapter seeks to explore the impact of judicialization of politics on the prospects of rule of law construction in democratizing societies. Mexico presents an interesting case study as, since the mid-1990s, the judiciary has engaged in unprecedented levels of judicial activism with important political and economic consequences. The chapter aim...

This article examines the judicialization of politics in Latin America with particular reference to Mexico and Argentina. It surveys several inter-connected processes with regard to the democratic aspiration of building the rule of law and enhancing citizenship. More than ever before regime legitimacy is linked to the credibility and success of rul...

Since the restoration of civilian government in 1982, Bolivia has experienced an unusually long period of relative political stability. Although not free from moments of crisis — for instance the hyperinflationary crisis of 1984–5 which cut short the mandate of Hernán Siles Zuazo — this has been a period in which constitutional institutions have be...

A través de una evaluación del sistema judicial, el artículo considera las cambiantes perspectivas de la ciudadanía y el regulación de la ley en México. La transformación del estado mexicano lleva consigo cambios en la manera en que los derechos son concebidos, tanto en el discurso político como dentro de la sociedad misma. La creciente demanda de...

LinzJuan J. and ValenzuelaArturo (eds.), The Failure of Presidential Democracy (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), pp. xvi + 436, £54.00. - Volume 27 Issue 3 - Pilar Domingo

LavaudJean-Pierre, L'instabilité de I'Amérique latine: le cas bolivien (Paris: Editions l'Harmattan avec Editions de l'lnstitut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine, 1991), pp. 290. - Volume 27 Issue 2 - Pilar Domingo

VayssièrePierre, Les révolutions d'Amérique Latine (paris:Éditions du Seuil, 1991), pp. 409. - Volume 25 Issue 1 - Pilar Domingo