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      Laws in Conflict: Legacies of War, Gender, and Legal Pluralism in Chechnya

      World Politics
      Cambridge University Press (CUP)

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          How do legacies of conflict affect choices between state and nonstate legal institutions? This article studies this question in Chechnya, where state law coexists with Sharia and customary law. The author focuses on the effect of conflict-induced disruption of gender hierarchies because the dominant interpretations of religious and customary norms are discriminatory against women. The author finds that women in Chechnya are more likely than men to rely on state law and that this gender gap in legal preferences and behavior is especially large in more-victimized communities. The author infers from this finding that the conflict created the conditions for women in Chechnya to pursue their interests through state law—albeit not without resistance. Women’s legal mobilization has generated a backlash from the Chechen government, which has attempted to reinstate a patriarchal order. The author concludes that conflict may induce legal mobilization among the weak and that gender may become a central cleavage during state-building processes in postconflict environments.

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                Journal
                applab
                World Politics
                World Pol.
                Cambridge University Press (CUP)
                0043-8871
                1086-3338
                October 2019
                August 28 2019
                October 2019
                : 71
                : 04
                : 667-709
                Article
                10.1017/S0043887119000133
                dbfc893d-139b-4fc5-9744-4ebf01e3f489
                © 2019

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