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Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the Re-introduction of a Multiparty System in Uganda
CMI Working Paper | Dec 2007
This article addresses the process behind the National Resistance Movement's (NRM) decision to open for a reintroduction of multiparty politics. Why ...
Political systems, National resistance, Elections, Uganda
Turnaround: The national resistance movement and the reintroduction of a multiparty system in Uganda
Journal Article | Apr 2009
This article addresses the process behind the decision of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) to reintroduce multiparty politics in Uganda. Restrictions ...
Uganda
Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the Reintroduction of a Multiparty System in Uganda
Book Chapter | Mar 2008
Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the Reintroduction of a Multiparty System in Ugan
Hamas and the Quest for Palestinian Statehood
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006
The Islamic Resistance Movement’s (Hamas) big win in the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) marks the end of Fatah’s ...
Elections, Hamas, Islamic Resistance Movement, Palestine
Party Politics in Palestine: Hamas and the Politicization of Resistance
Project | Jan 2010 - Apr 2014
This four-year research project will explain Hamas's transition from militant movement to political party, and through this provide a fuller understanding ...
Hamas, political Islam, political party, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon
Hamas and Palestinian Statehood
Book Chapter | Jan 2007
The Islamic Resistance Movement's (Hamas) big win in the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) marks the end of Fatah's political hegemony. ...
Peace, Conflict, Political development, Elections, Economic conditions, Economic policy, Middle East: Israel, Palestine
Hybrid paths to resistance in the Muslim world: Iraq, Lebanon, Libya and Mali
Project | May 2017 - Dec 2019
HYRES studies the interaction between Islamist groups and the state in Iraq, Lebanon, Libya and Mali, and asks: Why do some Islamist groups choose to ...
Iraq, Lebanon, Libya and Mali
Grabbing an Election: Abuse of State Resources in the 2011 Elections in Uganda
Book Chapter | Mar 2014
Elections are an integral part of representative democracies. Well functioning elections contribute to democratic accountability and democratic institutions, ...
Corruption, Elections, Political Corruption, Uganda
Legal Regimes, Women’s Work, and Women’s Empowerment
Journal Article | Jun 2019
The second-wave feminist movement called attention to the endurance of discriminatory laws that deny women equal rights and opportunities. Since the 1970s, ...
Political Buddhism, ‘Unethical Conversions’ and Religious Freedom in Sri Lanka
Event | 25 Feb 2016
The Anti-Conversion Bill was never adopted in Sri Lanka, but the heated debate surrounding the law proposal in 2004 points to the dilemmas of proselytism. How far can you go to convert someone to your religion?
Sri Lanka
Reintroducing a Local-Level Multiparty System in Uganda: Why Be in Opposition?
Journal Article | Jan 2009
In a referendum in July 2005 the people of Uganda voted overwhelmingly in support of reintroducing the multiparty system. As a result, one expected an ...
Opposition, Local Governance, Elections, Dominant Party Systems, Uganda
Executive dominance and the politics of quota representation
Journal Article | Jan 2012
Quota policies securing the presence of marginalised groups in decision-making bodies have been adopted across sub-Saharan Africa. These policies are ...
Women and Islamic Civil Society
News | 27 Nov 2008
Hilde K.Kjøstvedt has won a PhD scholarship at CMI. Her PhD-project will focus on women in Islamic civil society organisations in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
Palestine
Administering Uganda's 2006 Multiparty Elections: The Role of the Electoral Commission
CMI Working Paper | Jun 2008
On 23 February, 2006, Ugandan voters could for the first time since 1980 choose a party of their choice rather than select individual candidates within ...
Elections, Uganda
To Exist is to Resist: Sumud and Resistance in the Shadow of the Wall
Project | Jan 2009 - Aug 2013
Sumud is an Arabic term commonly translated into steadfastness. The concept is closely related with the Palestinian experience of dispossession and expulsion ...
The many faces of political Islam in Sudan: Muslim women's activism for and against the state
Doctoral Thesis | Nov 2011
This thesis investigates the politics of competing Islamic gender ideologies in Sudan. Based on fieldwork conducted in greater Khartoum from 2006 through ...
Sudan
Women’s Equal Rights and Islam in Sudanese Republican Thought: A Translation of Three Family Law Booklets from 1975, Produced and Circulated by the Republican Sisters
Sudan Working Paper | Aug 2015
This paper includes a translation of three booklets produced by the Sudanese Republican Sisters in commemoration of International Women’s Day in ...
Sudan, Republican Brothers, Islam, Women's rights, Family law
Sunnism, Salafism, Sheikism: Urban Pathways of Resistance in Sidon, Lebanon
Report in External Series | Jan 2019
This brief analyses Salafism as an urban phenomenon, with an emphasis on the contentious period following the Syrian uprising turned civil war (2011–present). ...
Lebanon
The Right of Resistance in Situations of Severe Deprivation
Book Chapter | Jan 2007
The Right of Resistance in Situations of Severe Deprivation Roberto Gargarella Freedom from Poverty
The Impact of elections: The case of Uganda
Book Chapter | Jan 2017
The comparative democratization literature is divided on the effects of multiparty elections in non - democratic regimes. Early analyses assumed that ...
Elections, Authoritarian regimes, Crises, Uganda