10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
In her presentation, Dr. Medha Nanivadekar examined the contradiction between an excess of quotas for women at the local level and their deficit at the state and national levels. She argued that equal access to power at the highest levels would not only boost perceptions of women’s political power but would ultimately result in reduced individual vulnerability to gender-based violence and discrimination.
03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Sponsored by: Fellows
In his presentation, H. Kwasi Prempeh assessed these viewpoints and explained how conventional approaches to constitution-writing in Africa have left in place some of the most problematic features of its authoritarian past.
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Sponsored by: Fellows
Dr. Luis Carlos Ugalde, former president of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Commission (IFE) in 2006, put the upcoming 2011 Mexican elections in historical perspective and to offered recommendations on how to strengthen Mexico’s evolving democracy.
