Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after Conflict

Lars Waldorf

doi:10.1080/00220388.2018.1451635

Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after Conflict

Lars Waldorf^*

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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. Nevertheless, there are risks that legal empowerment might contribute to a strengthening of group identities, reduction of social cohesion, and, in the worst case, triggering of conflict. It looks at how two legal empowerment programmes in Liberia navigated the tensions between equity and peace.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	437-455
Number of pages	19
Journal	Journal of Development Studies
Volume	55
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2018.1451635
Publication status	Published - 4 Mar 2019
Externally published	Yes

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