Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law is housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Gender
Scholarly Publications
Equality and Difference: Regional Courts and Women's Human Rights
September 2004
Women's human rights lie at the intersection of two intellectual and political movements: gender equality, and multiculturalism.
No Longer Complacent?: Why Israeli Women Did Not Rebel
December 2005
Why did Israeli women not fight for social equality until the late 1980s? And what changed their individual and collective willingness to act?
News
Technology, accountability and democracy in South Asia and beyond
September 2013
A call for papers has been issued for a conference on the intersection between technology, accountability and democracy will be organized in Mumbai, India in Jan 2014.
Paul Amar examines social militarization in Egypt and Brazil [VIDEO]
April 2015
As part of the Arab Reform and Democracy Program's speaker series, UC Santa Barbara Political Scientist Paul Amar discussed his book The Security Archipelago, winner of the 2014 Charles Taylor Book...
Events
Workshop: The movement of suicide bombing and how it is reflected in our thinking about social behavior in the social sciences
November 22, 2002
The act of suicide can take many forms and is an old "way out". However, the act always engenders some sort of statement in the community left behind.
Global Inequality and Birthright Citizenship
May 4, 2007
Ayelet Shachar is a professor of law, political science, and arts and science at the University of Toronto. She received her JSD from Yale Law School in 1997.
Democracy Promotion by Multilateral Organizations: the Case of the OSCE
April 30, 2007
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was one of the first multilateral bodies where its members states, including the US, Russia, all other post-Soviet and European...
Projects
Program on Social Entrepreneurship
"Transforming ripples into waves of transformational change across the world" Vision: The Program on Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law...
English
Human Rights Education
In partnership with the Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies (ICA) and the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), the Program on Human Rights ...
English
Multimedia
The Paradoxes of Political Aid in the Arab World
May 2015
AbstractEuropean and US-based scholars and practitioners have debated the purposes and sometimes the (limited) macro-effects of programs designed to promote transitions from authoritarianism to democracy in Middle East countries.
People
