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CATEGORIES:Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
SUMMARY:CGHR Research Group: Advocacy Groups and the New P
 olitical Dispensation in Kenya and Zambia  - Bonfa
 s Owinga\, City University London
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140303T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140303T140000
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/49571
DESCRIPTION:Discussant: Dr Fred Okoth Mudhai (CGHR Research As
 sociate\; Coventry University)\n\nThe CGHR Researc
 h Group is a forum for graduate students and early
 -career researchers from any department and discip
 linary background researching issues of governance
  and human rights in the global\, regional\, and n
 ational contexts.\n\n*Abstract*\n\nIn the early 19
 90s\, advocacy organizations in both Kenya and Zam
 bia played a significant role in the struggle for 
 the restoration of democracy and the return to mul
 ti-party politics. As part of the larger pro-democ
 racy movement\, the groups helped to organize mass
  demonstrations and protests and carried out civic
  education in order to foster democratic transitio
 ns. In the post-transition period the political di
 spensation has dramatically changed with an expone
 ntially expanded political space and the improveme
 nt in civil and political rights in both countries
  that is critical for the work of advocacy groups.
  However\, these groups are finding it extremely d
 ifficult to adapt to the new political environment
  where they face an existential anxiety with consi
 derably reduced effectiveness in fostering the pro
 cess of democratic consolidation.\n\nThis paper us
 es qualitative data obtained from both Kenya and Z
 ambia to analyze the three fold dilemma facing adv
 ocacy groups: re-defining their role in the new po
 litical dispensation\; crafting new tactics and st
 rategies for articulating demands that would contr
 ibute to democratic consolidation\; and developing
  a new relationship with the new democratic state.
  It will examine how these challenges have impacte
 d on the role of these groups in the process of de
 mocratic consolidation in both Kenya and Zambia.\n
 \nMore information on the series is available here
 : http://mws.polis.cam.ac.uk/cghr/research_researc
 h_group.html.
LOCATION:Room 138\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site
 \, 7 West Rd\, CB3 9DT
CONTACT:Gabriela Martinez
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