Improving Women’s Access to Justice in a Context of Legal Pluralism: Two Experiments on Short and Long-term Approaches in Somalia

• In Event: I Fought the Law: Comparative Courts

Brief Overview

We experimentally evaluate a UN program in Somalia whereby women and elders receive trainings on pro-women Quranic interpretations and non-violent communication. We also conduct a conjoint experiment to identify why people opt out of formal courts.

Authors

• Nicholas Semi Goldman Haas, New York University

• Prabin Bahadur Khadka, New York University