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 language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Helsinki |
| Publisher | UNU-WIDER |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2017 |