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Multiculturalism and pluralism in secular society: Individual or collective rights?
Journal Article | Nov 2011
This paper discusses multiculturalism in view of collectivistic cultural structures in immigrant communities. Women in religious minority ...
multiculturalism, Muslim communities, religious divorce
Nordic Multiculturalism: Commonalities and Differences
Book Chapter | Oct 2013
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 ...
Social discrimination, migration, immigration, emigration, ethnic minorities, multiculturalism, social welfare, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finnland
Review of Nancy Postero´s "Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Post-multicultural Bolivia"
Book Review | Dec 2007
Review of Nancy Postero´s "Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Post-multicultural Bolivia"
Beyond the Permitted Indian? Bolivia and Guatemala in an Age of Neoliberal Developmentalism
Journal Article | Jan 2008
This paper outlines and discusses the contrasting histories of inclusion and contestation associated with the introduction of neoliberal and multicultural ...
Bolivia, Guatemala
Building ethnic citizenship?
Event | 13 May 2008
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.
Mexico, Guatemala
Challenging Male Dominance in Norm-Making in Contexts of Legal Pluralism: Insights from the Andes
Book Chapter | Jan 2018
Challenging Male Dominance in Norm-Making in Contexts of Legal Pluralism: Insights from the Andes Ra
Building Mayan authority and autonomy: The "recovery" of indigenous law in post-peace Guatemala
Journal Article | Jul 2011
Across Latin America, debates and practice around indigenous law provide a window on shifting relations between indigenous movements, states, and international ...
Multiculturalism and religious legislation in Sweden
Book Chapter | Dec 2010
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 ...
'Emancipation' or 'regulation'? Law, globalization and indigenous peoples' rights in post-war Guatemala.
Journal Article | Jul 2011
During the last two decades processes of legal globalization have led to the increasing codification of the collective rights of indigenous peoples. In ...
Guatemala
Guatemala: Violence and Insecurity after the Peace
Event | 19 May 2010
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.
Guatemala
Religious minorities in the Middle East
Event | 20 Feb 2012
Literary Salon with Anne Sofie Roald and Turid Smith Polfus.
Democratizing Islam and Islamizing democracy: An inquiry into Hasan al-Turabi's conception of Shura in light of Western democratic theory
Journal Article | Aug 2009
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 ...
Hasan al-Turabi, Islam, democracy, minorities, Sudan
Conflict and Co-existence in Lebanon
Event | 23 Sep 2010
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.
Lebanon
Latin American Constitutionalism (1810-2010): The Engine Room of the Constitution
Book | Jan 2013
Latin America possesses an enormously rich constitutional history, one that has only recently become the subject of scholarly inquiry. As noted legal ...
Understanding Egypt: Soldiers, Revolutionaries and the People
Event | 20 Jan 2014
PROGRAMME
15:30 Opening remarks Senior Researcher, Nefissa Naguib, CMI
15:45 – 16:45 Keynote lecture: Egypt’s Uncertain RevolutionIs ...
Egypt
Bangladesh conference: New Context and New Challenges
Event | 19 Apr 2012
Reducing poverty and improving governance require evidence-based approaches that also pay attention to the political scope for reform.
Constitutionalism in an Insurgent State: Rethinking Legal Empowerment of the Poor in a Divided Bolivia
Book Chapter | Nov 2008
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 ...
Social exclusion, democratic inclusion and the insurgency in Nepal
Project | Jul 2006 - Mar 2009
This research program is conducted by CMI in collaboration with a research group from Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal. It is divided into 8 separate ...
Asia: Nepal