This article addresses the process behind the National Resistance Movement's (NRM) decision to open for a reintroduction of multiparty politics.  Why ...

This article addresses the process behind the decision of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) to reintroduce multiparty politics in Uganda. Restrictions ...

Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the Reintroduction of a Multiparty System in Ugan

The Islamic Resistance Movement’s (Hamas) big win in the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) marks the end of Fatah’s ...

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. ...

This four-year research project will explain Hamas's transition from militant movement to political party, and through this provide a fuller understanding ...

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 ...

Elections are an integral part of representative democracies. Well functioning elections contribute to democratic accountability and democratic institutions, ...

The second-wave feminist movement called attention to the endurance of discriminatory laws that deny women equal rights and opportunities. Since the 1970s, ...

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?

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 ...

Quota policies securing the presence of marginalised groups in decision-making bodies have been adopted across sub-Saharan Africa. These policies are ...

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.

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 ...

Sumud is an Arabic term commonly translated into steadfastness. The concept is closely related with the Palestinian experience of dispossession and expulsion ...

This thesis investigates the politics of competing Islamic gender ideologies in Sudan. Based on fieldwork conducted in greater Khartoum from 2006 through ...

This brief analyses Salafism as an urban phenomenon, with an emphasis on the contentious period following the Syrian uprising turned civil war (2011–present). ...

This paper includes a translation of three booklets produced by the Sudanese Republican Sisters in commemoration of International Women’s Day in ...

The Right of Resistance in Situations of Severe Deprivation Roberto Gargarella Freedom from Poverty

The comparative democratization literature is divided on the effects of multiparty elections in non - democratic regimes. Early analyses assumed that ...