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Main Research Topic
We research mobilization for gender equality and social change.
Women and Islamisation: Comtemporary dimensions of discourse on gender relations
Project | Jan 1994 - Jul 1998
This seminar on Women and Islamisation took place at CMI in 1994, focusing on Islam as a religion undergoing reinterpretation and change - especially ...
gender, islam, Asia, Africa
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rightsCMI Report | Dec 2017
This paper focuses on family law reform in Sudan-a country that has been in a state of perpetual conflict that stretches back long before its independence ...
human rights, women, family law, gender, Sudan
The Paradox of Representation in Sudan: Muslim Women's Diverging Agendas
The Paradox of Representation in Sudan: Muslim Women's Diverging AgendasCMI Brief | Feb 2010
The international discourse on gender and peacebuilding presupposes a common agenda among all women across religion, ethnicity and class in any given ...
gender, peacebuilding, rights, Sudan
A Different Yardstick: The Gendered Political Discourse in Malawi
A Different Yardstick: The Gendered Political Discourse in MalawiCMI Brief | Apr 2016
The 2014 election campaign in Malawi focussed on gender rather than facts. In this brief we argue that the campaign showed a strong, conservative, culturally ...
election, Malawi, gender, Joyce Banda
The ‘Joyce Banda Effect’: Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in Malawi
The ‘Joyce Banda Effect’: Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in MalawiCMI Brief | Apr 2016
In the 2014 elections in Malawi, the incumbent female president Joyce Banda lost the presidency, and the number of women MPs was reduced from 43 to 33. ...
voting, election, gender, Malawi
Joint Land Certification and Intra-household Decision-making: Towards Empowerment of Wives?
Joint Land Certification and Intra-household Decision-making: Towards Empowerment of Wives?Report in External Series | Jan 2013
We have used gender-disaggregated household panel data from 2007 and 2012 in combination with dictator games and hawk-dove games to assess the effects ...
joint land certification, gender, empowerment of wives, Ethiopia, Africa
European Islamic gender discourse
European Islamic gender discourseBook Chapter | Apr 2011
Recent discourses on human rights as well as individual rights have affected the traditional understanding of gender roles and family in general. Due ...
Organizing their way to gender equality
Organizing their way to gender equalityNews | 25 Oct 2013
Ugandan women have organized themselves to the core of national politics. What lessons are there to learn from the Ugandan experience?
Prostitute as metaphor in gender construction; a Gambian setting
CMI Report | Jan 1990
Prostitute as metaphor in gender construction; a Gambian setting Heidi Skramstad CMI Report heidi
Prostitute as metaphor in gender construction; a Gambian setting
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1990
The empirical base of the paper is a Gambian multiethnic urban context. It is discussed how the label prostitute seems to be used as a metaphor for improper ...
Prostitute, Fertility, Gender construction, Gambia
Islam and gender in Europe: Subjectivities, politics and piety
Islam and gender in Europe: Subjectivities, politics and pietyJournal Article | Jan 2017
'Is Islam reconcilable with feminism?' asks Haideh Moghissi (1999), echoing a concern that is currently dramatized in numerous ways across and beyond ...
Humanitarian challenges in Afghanistan: Administrative structures and gender and assistance
CMI Report | Jan 2001
The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has rapidly deteriorated over the last months, as the conflict between the Taliban and the international community ...
Asia: Afghanistan
An accumulated rage: Legal pluralism and gender justice in Bolivia
An accumulated rage: Legal pluralism and gender justice in BoliviaBook Chapter | Jan 2013
An accumulated rage: Legal pluralism and gender justice in Bolivia John-Andrew McNeish and Ana Cec
Justice, Women, Gender, Bolivia
Changing gender relations in African informal economies
Project | Jan 2004 - Sep 2005
Women in many West African countries are famous for their numerical dominance and powerful organisations in several branches of the informal economy. ...
Gender relations, informal economy, structural adjustment, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Africa
The African Development Bank's new gender policy
Project | Sep - Dec 2000
The African Development Bank, based in Abidjan, is in the process of reneweing their gender policy.
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has supported ...
Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan: Islamist women negotiating gender equity
Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan: Islamist women negotiating gender equityBook Chapter | Jan 2013
This chapter explores how women’s rights and obligations are understood and negotiated within the context of an Islamic state in Sudan. It particularly ...
Sudan
Alternatives to gender quotas : electoral financing of women candidates in Malawi
Journal Article | Sep 2014
Gender quotas change the rules of candidate selection, reflecting a demand-side solution to women's underrepresentation in politics. In contrast, limited ...
Gender quotas, Electoral Financing, Candidate Selection, Africa, Malawi
The gender of law: Politics, memory and agency in Mozambican community courts
Book Chapter | Jan 2013
The gender of law: Politics, memory and agency in Mozambican community courts Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
Law, Courts, Gender, Women, Mozambique
Partnership, policymaking, and conditionality in the gender field: The case of Tanzania
Partnership, policymaking, and conditionality in the gender field: The case of TanzaniaJournal Article | May 2014
Partnership is the overarching framework for development cooperation, but it has been criticized for furthering priorities of the North, rather than those ...
Gender, Tanzania, Tanzania
Who is losing out? Structural adjustment, gender and the agricultural sector in Zambia
Journal Article | Jan 1992
Who is losing out? Structural adjustment, gender and the agricultural sector in Zambia Gisela Geisl