This paper discusses multiculturalism in view of collectivistic cultural  structures in immigrant communities. Women in religious minority  ...

The five Nordic countries may be thought of as quite similar in many ways so that we would expect commonalities rather than differences among them. In ...

Review of Nancy Postero´s "Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Post-multicultural Bolivia"

This paper outlines and discusses the contrasting histories of inclusion and contestation associated with the introduction of neoliberal and multicultural ...

Indigenous responses to multicultural state reform in Guatemala and Mexico. Professor Rachel Sieder analyzes indigenous peoples' efforts to articulate alternative visions of government, law and justice.

Challenging Male Dominance in Norm-Making in Contexts of Legal Pluralism: Insights from the Andes Ra

Across Latin America, debates and practice around indigenous law provide a window on shifting relations between indigenous movements, states, and international ...

In view of the growing influence of religion in public life on the national and international scenes, Muslim Diaspora in the West constitutes a timely ...

During the last two decades processes of legal globalization have led to the increasing codification of the collective rights of indigenous peoples. In ...

The aim of this seminar is to take stock of the situation in Guatemala regarding poverty, security and indigenous rights and analyze the root causes of the disappointing developments following the signing of the peace accords in 1996.

Literary Salon with Anne Sofie Roald and Turid Smith Polfus.

This article explores Hasan al-Turabi’s conception of democracy with particular focus on the role and rights of non-Muslims. This is done through ...

the workshop will examine why Lebanon becomes trapped in externally driven cycles of regional and international political conflict and what the international community can do to break the cycle of violence.

Latin America possesses an enormously rich constitutional history, one that has only recently become the subject of scholarly inquiry. As noted legal ...

PROGRAMME 15:30 Opening remarks Senior Researcher, Nefissa Naguib, CMI 15:45 – 16:45 Keynote lecture: Egypt’s Uncertain RevolutionIs ...

Reducing poverty and improving governance require evidence-based approaches that also pay attention to the political scope for reform.

With the world record in coup d'états[i] and a modern history of revolution and repeated uprisings it can also too easy to dismiss Bolivia ...

This research program is conducted by CMI in collaboration with a research group from Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal. It is divided into 8 separate ...