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CMI Brief | 2019
Beyond Islamist Extremism: Women and the Algerian Uprisings of 2019
February 22, 2019, marked a watershed moment in Algeria’s history, and a key moment in the struggle for women’s rights. For the first time since its independence 57 years ago,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2019:09) 6 p.

Journal Article | 2019
Why the Gender of Traditional Authorities Matters: Intersectionality and Women's Rights Advocacy in Malawi
in Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 52, Issue 12, 1881-1924

Report in External Series | 2019
Local Peace Processes: Opportunities and Challenges for Women’s Engagement
When and how do local peace processes and agreements address conflict?
What are the opportunities and challenges for women and gender-equality
advocates seeking to meaningfully engage with local peace processes?
When and how...
Wise, L., Forster, R., and Bell, Christine. (2019). 'Local Peace Processes: Opportunties and Challenges for Women's Engagement', Edinburgh: Global Justice Academy, University of Edinburgh

Report in External Series | 2019
Women and the Renegotiation of Transitional Governance Arrangements
The PA-X Spotlight Series addresses questions regarding comparative peace processes, asked by those seeking to influence peace and transition processes to be more inclusive. Each Spotlight provides brief comparative material...
Forster, R. & Bell, C. (2019). Gender Mainstreaming in Ceasefires: Comparative Data and Examples (PA-X Report, Spotlight Series). Edinburgh: Global Justice Academy, University of Edinburgh

Report in External Series | 2019
Gender Mainstreaming in Ceasefires: Comparative Data and Examples
This Spotlight addresses the questions: How did peace agreements and transition documents signed in Libya between 2011 and 2018 provide for the inclusion of women and gender? When and how...
Forster, R. & Bell, C. (2019). Gender Mainstreaming in Ceasefires: Comparative Data and Examples (PA-X Report, Spotlight Series). Edinburgh: Global Justice Academy, University of Edinburgh

Report in External Series | 2019
A Gender Analysis of Peace Agreements and Transitional Documents in Libya, 2011-2018
This Spotlight addresses the questions: How did peace agreements and transition documents signed in Libya between 2011 and 2018 provide for the inclusion of women and gender? When and how...
Forster, R. (2019). A Gender Analysis of Peace Agreements and Transitional Documents in Libya, 2011-2018 (PA-X Report, Spotlight Series). Edinburgh: Global Justice Academy, University of Edinburgh

Book Chapter | 2019
Discrete Moves and Parallel Tracks: Gender Politics in post-2001 Afghanistan
in Deniz Kandiyoti, Nadje Al-Ali, Kathryn Spellman-Poots: Gender, Governance and Islam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Journal Article | 2019
Family Law Reform, Employment, and Women’s Political Participation in Ethiopia
Research showing that there is strong correlation between increased female labor force participation and women’s political participation is essentially based on empirical data from Western, democratic, and developed contexts. In...
in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society vol. 26 no. 2 pp. 299-323

Journal Article | 2019
Adolescent pregnancy and social norms in Zambia
Early pregnancy occurs frequently in Zambia and is considered a public health issue. The aim of this study was to improve understanding of how gendered sexual norms make young unmarried...
in Culture, Health & Sexuality

Journal Article | 2019
Legal Regimes, Women’s Work, and Women’s Empowerment
The second-wave feminist movement called attention to the endurance of discriminatory laws that deny women equal rights and opportunities. Since the 1970s, most countries around the world responded to feminist...
in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society vol. 26 no. 2 pp. 189-192

Journal Article | 2019
Women at work in Sudan: Marital privilege or constitutional right
This article explores how working women in Sudan's capital negotiate legal constraints placing them under the guardianship of their husbands, imposing strict public dress and behavioral codes upon them, and...
in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society vol. 26 no. 2 pp. 223-244

Journal Article | 2019
Candidate selection and informal soft quotas for women: gender imbalance in political recruitment in Zambia
in Politics, Groups, & Identities (Published online 03 Jan 2019)

Edited Book | 2019
Children's Rights in Norway
Norway tops international indexes on children’s rights but continues to attract criticism for its level of compliance with the Convention of the Rights of Child. This book is the first...
Children's Rights in Norway: An Implementation Paradox?, Universitetsforlaget

Journal Article | 2018
Maputo: Ethnography of a Divided City
Rapid urbanisation is one of the most dramatic developments on the African continent, often yielding contrasting and shocking images of affluent businesses and residential districts alongside sprawling shantytowns or slums....
in Journal of Anthropological Films vol. 2 no. 2

CMI Working Paper | 2018
Most people are not economists: Citizen preferences for corporate taxation
On what bases should corporations be taxed? This article presents evidence from a series of discrete choice experiments designed to elicit the tax preferences of ordinary citizens. We find that...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:11)

Journal Article | 2018
Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa
Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional institutions enjoy constitutional authority. To explore differences between states...
in Political Studies, first published online: December 1, 2017 vol. 66 no. 4 pp. 851-868

Master's Thesis | 2018
Safeguarding borders, or safeguarding queers?
While the political field of immigration is getting increasingly stringent throughout Europe, rights for queer individuals are progressively strengthened in Western parts of the world.
These two parallel trends have made...
Paris: CNRS-CERI Sciences Po 99 p.

CMI Report | 2018
The gendering of poverty and inequality in rural Malanje, Angola
This report is concerned with analyzing the gendered dimensions of rural poverty, based on qualitative and quantitative research in the rural municipality of Kalandula in the northeastern province of Malanje,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2018:10) 42 p.

Report in External Series | 2018
When Do Donor Endorsements Help or Hurt? Policy Advocacy and Men's Interests in Malawi
Development organizations seek to improve support for gender reforms, especially among populations who might undermine implementation. Yet, little is known about how policy advocates shape citizens’ views. Using a framing...
Gothenburg: The Program on Governance and Local Development, University of Gothenburg (GLD Working Paper no. 16) pp. 1-35

Report in External Series | 2018
Non-formal girls’ life skills programming Implications for policy and practice
Research in developing countries demonstrates the importance of life skills for improving a range of outcomes for adolescent girls. These outcomes include improved psychosocial and mental health (e.g., emotional resilience,...
NW Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution (POLICY BRIEF) 12 p.