TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction
T2 - Legal empowerment in transitions
AU - Waldorf, Lars
N1 - I am grateful to the University of York for funding a June 2013 conference
on ‘Legal Empowerment in Transitions’ and to all those who took part in that conference. I am also grateful to the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) which funded both a May 2012 workshop (‘Transforming Post-Conflict Societies: Everyday Violence and Access to Justice’) and my productive,week-long visit to the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen
PY - 2015/4/3
Y1 - 2015/4/3
N2 - Despite the growing attention to and burgeoning literature on legal empowerment, there has been surprisingly little focus on how it might promote greater social justice during political transitions from authoritarianism and from conflict. Such transitions can provide opportunities for challenging structural inequalities and for promoting legal mobilization. This introductory article provides an overview of legal empowerment before examining its links to peacebuilding and transitional justice.
AB - Despite the growing attention to and burgeoning literature on legal empowerment, there has been surprisingly little focus on how it might promote greater social justice during political transitions from authoritarianism and from conflict. Such transitions can provide opportunities for challenging structural inequalities and for promoting legal mobilization. This introductory article provides an overview of legal empowerment before examining its links to peacebuilding and transitional justice.
U2 - 10.1080/13642987.2015.1029335
DO - 10.1080/13642987.2015.1029335
M3 - Article
SN - 1364-2987
VL - 19
SP - 229
EP - 241
JO - International Journal of Human Rights
JF - International Journal of Human Rights
IS - 3
ER -