Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after Conflict

This resource comes from the Journal of Development Studies, 2019 Vol. 55, No. 3, 437–455.

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 programs in Liberia navigated the tensions between equity and peace.

Year Published: 2019
Uploaded on: Mar 01, 2019
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Resource Type: Practitioner Resources

Issues: Ethnic / Religious Minorities' Rights, Peace-building & Transitional Justice

Tool Type: Journal Articles & Books

Languages: English

Regions: > Global, Liberia



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