Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after Conflict

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Abstract

This article explores whether legal empowerment can address horizontal inequalities in post-conflict settings, and, if so, how. It argues that legal empowerment has modest potential to reduce these inequalities but that there are risks of strengthening group identities, reducing social cohesion, and, in the worst case, triggering conflict. It uses a case study to examine how two legal empowerment programs in Liberia navigated this tension between equity and peace.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationHelsinki
PublisherUNU-WIDER
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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