Our technical adviser, Dr. Mona Lena Krook, Associate Professor at Rutgers University, submitted a paper co-authored with GWD on violence against women in politics to the International Political Science Association's (IPSA) meeting in July. This paper won IPSA's 2016 Wilma Rule Award for best research on gender and politics, and will appear in the January 2017 edition of the Journal of Democracy.

Don't miss the latest blogs from NDI on DemWorks. Make sure to read  Put Us in Your Place: Integrating Women into Election Observation  by Sarah Cooper. Read more about our Votes Without Violence program here.

Also on DemWorks is GWD's Amanda Shadiack's blog on Gender-Sensitive Governance: The Missing Ingredient for Resilient Cities.  For more about GWD's agenda around women and urbanization, see our Urbanization White Paper here.

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