Waldorf, Lars (2019) Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after Conflict. Journal of Development Studies, 55 (3). pp. 437-455. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2018.1451635
Waldorf, Lars (2019) Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after Conflict. Journal of Development Studies, 55 (3). pp. 437-455. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2018.1451635
Waldorf, Lars (2019) Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after Conflict. Journal of Development Studies, 55 (3). pp. 437-455. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2018.1451635
Abstract
This article explores whether legal empowerment can address horizontal inequalities in post-conflict settings, and, if so, how. It argues that legal empowerment has modest potential to reduce these inequalities. Nevertheless, there are risks that legal empowerment might contribute to a strengthening of group identities, reduction of social cohesion, and, in the worst case, triggering of conflict. It looks at how two legal empowerment programmes in Liberia navigated the tensions between equity and peace.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | legal empowerment; horizontal inequalities; Liberia |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Essex Law School |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2019 12:09 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 20:45 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/25861 |
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