The International Community and the 'Shura Strategy' in Afghanistan
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2011
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International Development Law Organization
Abstract
The international community in Afghanistan has increasingly come to realize that
the failure of the Afghan state to provide citizens with predictable access to
justice has contributed significantly to the insurgency in much of the country. As
a result, funders, policy makers and the international military have increasingly
looked to alternative approaches to justice that rely on informal, non-state
actors. While this acknowledgement of legal pluralism in Afghanistan has been an
important step in attempting to understand the local context for both rule of law
and governance challenges, whether international programs aimed at engaging
the informal justice sector are actually effective remains an open question.
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Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 2001-, Dispute resolution (Law) -- Afghanistan., Justice, Administration of -- Afghanistan.
Citation
Albrecht, P., Kyed, H. M., Isser, D. H., & Harper, E. (2011). Perspectives on involving non-state and customary actors in justice and security reform. Rome: IDLO. p.53-65