The wide swath of political actions, including those that renegotiate gender through the appropriation of digital space, tend to be "fragments" of micro-power that do not necessarily add up to making a political agora.
Two communities in peri-urban Banda Aceh were observed during post-tsunami displacement, and upon return to their original villages.
Major findings of this cross-country research show that while the traditional “modernity” variables remain important determinants of democracy in the long-run, they fail to explain the persistence of the Arab democracy deficit relative to other co
Women face many barriers to political participation in conflict zones across South Asia, including laws that perpetuate a culture of impunity and lack of justice for victims of violence and abuse by security forces.
States that have successfully exited violence and embarked on a process of development have often started with strong political settlements, or elite pacts. These sometimes take the form of peace agreements, or electoral coalitions.
This project will support a comparative investigation aimed at answering the following question. How do diasporas become agents for change in countries experiencing prolonged conflict or crisis, or a difficult transition?
Gender equality in migration as a policy objective requires an understanding of the intersections between different power structures (gender, class, ethnicity and age) and how they produce different experiences with regard to identity formation, m