Browsing Publications by Author "Tønnessen, Liv"

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    • Activism from the closet: Fear of a double backlash against a nascent queer movement in Sudan 

      Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia; Allah, Samah Khalaf (Queer lawfare in Africa: Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicisation, Chapter, 2022-11-01)

    • An increasing number of Muslim women in politics: A step towards complementarity, not equality 

      Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Brief no. 2018:3, Report, 2018-05-01)
      The number of Muslim women participating in political decision-making in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) is on the rise. This brief explores how Islamists in Sudan have interpreted complementarity over time and ...

    • Ansar al-Sunna and Women’s Agency in Sudan: A Salafi Approach to Empowerment through Gender Segregation 

      Tønnessen, Liv (Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies vol. 37 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-01)
      This article explores the possibilities, limits, and paradox of Salafi female agency at a time when Ansar al-Sunna is assuming a new political role under the rule of an Islamizing state in Sudan. The Islam Ansar al-Sunna ...

    • Beyond numbers? Women's 25% parliamentary quota in post-conflict Sudan 

      Tønnessen, Liv (Peace, Conflict and Development vol. 17, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-08-01)
      This article explores the validity of critical mass theory in the context of a 25% women’s quota in the national parliament in post-conflict Sudan. It is being argued here that the implementation of a women’s ...

    • Breaking the silence on domestic violence 

      al-Nagar, Samia; Tønnessen, Liv (Report, 2024-06-01)
      Despite towering evidence of domestic violence in Sudan, many are reluctant to admit that it even exists. This brief argues that this denial could be linked to a lack of understanding of domestic violence.

    • Child marriage and education in Eastern Sudan 

      Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (Report, 2018-09-01)
      A new understanding that educating girls' does not constrain their marriage potential is emerging in eastern Sudan. Girls who continue their education and their families are role models who challenge the cultural boundaries ...

    • Community Views on Child Marriage in Kassala: Prospects for Change 

      Nagar, Samia El; Mahjoub, Manal; Idris, Adil; Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Report SR 2018:01, Research report, 2018-01-01)
      Child marriage is any formal marriage or informal union where one or both parties are under 18 years of age. Child marriage affects both boys and girls, but disproportionately affects girls. Each year, 15 million girls are ...

    • Competing Perceptions of Women's Civil Rights in Sudan 

      Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Brief vol. 6 no. 4, Report, 2007-07-19)
      During the peace process in Sudan women were merely "guests at the table. The role permitted to women during negotiations was based on a perception of them as passive victims of war, not active players in politics and ...

    • Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa 

      Muriaas, Ragnhild Louise; Tønnessen, Liv; Wang, Vibeke (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 8, Report, 2017-11-01)
      Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional institutions enjoy constitutional authority. Why does counter-mobilization arise ...

    • Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa 

      Muriaas, Ragnhild L.; Tønnessen, Liv; Wang, Vibeke (Political Studies, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-01)
      Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional institutions enjoy constitutional authority. To explore differences between states ...

    • COVID-19 and the urgent need to protect Sudanese women against violence 

      al-Nagar, Samia; Tønnessen, Liv (Report, 2020-07-01)
      Three decades of Islamist rule institutionalized a culture of violence against women in Sudan. The COVID-19 pandemic and state instructed lockdown has led to an acute situation for many Sudanese women suffering domestic ...

    • Criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation in Sudan: A never ending story? 

      Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (CMI Insight 2016:1, Report, 2016-01-01)
      Women inside and outside of the Sudanese government were deeply concerned about the high prevalence rates of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) after decades of efforts to eradicate the practice. Criminalization of FGM emerged ...

    • Curbing Women Activists in Darfur in the wake of the International Criminal Court 

      Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Insight 2015:5, Report, 2015-01-01)
      In 2009, the international criminal court (ICC) warranted the arrest of Sudan’s sitting President indicting him for systematic and widespread sexual violence in Darfur. In the wake of the ICC, the Sudanese regime has curbed ...

    • Democratizing Islam and Islamizing democracy: An inquiry into Hasan al-Turabi's conception of Shura in light of Western democratic theory 

      Tønnessen, Liv (Nordic Journal of Human Rights vol. 27 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-08-01)
      This article explores Hasan al-Turabi’s conception of democracy with particular focus on the role and rights of non-Muslims. This is done through a qualitative analysis of his writings as well as semi-structured ...

    • Drivers of child marriage in eastern Sudan 

      Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (Report, 2018-09-01)
      There are several causes that contribute to child marriage in eastern Sudan, including poverty, lack of education for girls, avoiding stigma and the legality of child marriage. However, tradition and protection of girls’ ...

    • Enemies of the state: Curbing women activists advocating rape reform in Sudan 

      Tønnessen, Liv (Journal of International Women's Studies vol. 18 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-01)
      Sudanese women activists launched a legal campaign in 2009 calling attention to how the country’s Sharia based Criminal Act of 1991 produced impunity for sexual assault in the Darfur conflict. After years of mobilization, ...

    • Family law reform in Sudan: A never ending story? 

      al-Nagar, Samia; Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Brief no. 2018:08, Report, 2018-06-01)
      The family law in Sudan, legalises child marriage, stipulates a wife’s obedience to her husband, and gives the male guardian veto power on women’s consent to marriage. #JusticeforNoura has shone a spotlight on early and ...

    • Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights 

      Nagar, Samia El; Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Report R 2017:5, Research report, 2017-12-01)
      This paper focuses on family law reform in Sudan-a country that has been in a state of perpetual conflict that stretches back long before its independence in 1956. The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in ...

    • Feminist interlegalities and gender justice in Sudan: The debate on CEDAW and Islam 

      Tønnessen, Liv (Religion and Human Rights vol. 6 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-01-01)
      The fundamental argument put forward by Islamists, who have ruled Sudan since 1989, for not signing the convention is based on cultural relativism; different cultures provide indigenous and local solutions to their women's ...

    • From impunity to prosecution? Sexual violence in Sudan beyond Darfur 

      Tønnessen, Liv (NOREF Report, February 2012, Research report, 2012-03-01)
      Serious shortcomings in Sudanese laws and practices contribute to the lack of protection of victims of rape in Sudan. There is need for comprehensive legal reform, particularly of Sudan’s Criminal Law of 1991. The ...