Informal Justices and the International Community in Afghanistan
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2013-04
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United States Institute of Peace
Abstract
This report analyzes the array of programs that dealt
with the so-called informal justice sector in Afghanistan
from 2008 to 2011. It focuses on a series of pilot projects
sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace that
engaged local Afghan organizations at the district and
provincial levels to observe and record how informal
justice systems resolve (or fail to resolve) people’s disputes,
and how informal and formal justice actors relate
to each other in practice. It also examines the expanding
role of international actors in local dispute resolution
and the impact that such interventions have had on local
practices and perceptions of justice. The report finds
that the informal justice sector provides a pervasive and
effective, if sometimes flawed, venue for the majority of
the Afghan population to access justice and argues that
the international community should commit more fully to
supporting local informal justice mechanisms.
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Afghanistan, Justice, Administration of -- Afghanistan., Dispute resolution (Law) -- Afghanistan., Mediation -- Afghanistan.