UNU-WIDER : Publications

What are foresight methods and how can they secure our common futures?

Aicha Robei - UNU-WIDER , 2024 - Helsinki, Finland

Future tools and foresight thinking are crucial instruments to improve decision-making for a common future. As a Youth Foresight Fellow with UNICEF, I firmly believe that utilizing foresight, a sophisticated approach for anticipation and strategic planning, is essential in tackling and lessening the...

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Institutional Quality, Reforms and Integration in the Maghreb

Tony Addison, Mina Baliamoune-Lutz - UNU-WIDER , 2003 - Helsinki, Finland

Using panel data this paper examines the effects of institutions on the success of reforms and integration in the Maghreb. Institutional quality measures are developed using fuzzy-set based transformations of civil liberties and political rights. We posit that these transformations are quite...

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Evolution of the Women's Movement in Contemporary Algeria

– Organization, Objectives and Prospects

Cherifa Bouatta - UNU-WIDER , 1997 - Helsinki, Finland

The paper discusses some of the social and historical factors behind the evolution of contemporary women's organizations in Algeria. The paper states that the women question was never a priority. Yet, since the late 1980s, women became advocates of their own cause. After 1991, terrorism has also...

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Gender and National Identity

– Women and Politics in Muslim Societies

Valentine M. Moghadam - Zed Books , 1994 - London, UK

This lucid and accessible collection explores gender and national identity within political movements in the Middle East, the Maghreb and South Asia. It reveals how nationalism, revolution and Islamization are gendered processes, and argues that in periods of political change, women are central to...

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Gender and National Identity

– Women and Politics in Muslim Societies (paperback)

Valentine M. Moghadam - Zed Books with OUP , 1994 - London, UK

This lucid and accessible collection explores gender and national identity within political movements in the Middle East, the Maghreb and South Asia. It reveals how nationalism, revolution and Islamization are gendered processes, and argues that in periods of political change, women are central to...

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Feminism and Muslim Fundamentalism

– The Tunisian and Algerian Cases

Alya Baffoun - , 1994

From the book: Identity Politics and Women

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The Social Representation of Women in Algeria's Islamist Movement

Cherifa Bouatta, Dorian Cherifati-Merabtine - , 1994

From the book: Identity Politics and Women

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