The Challenge of Judicial Reform in Post-Conflict States
Posted: 25 Jun 2013
Date Written: May 2011
Abstract
This paper explores the consequences of sustained and widespread violence in states plagued by internal conflict on their government institutions, in particular their justice and judicial systems, by summarizing four recent case studies: Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Liberia, and Cambodia. The case studies illustrate how the fundamental destruction of the institutions primarily responsible for the rule of law create an often incendiary political vacuum from which it is difficult to recover.
Keywords: civil society, institutional collapse, absence of the rule of law, Rwanda, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Liberia, social breakdown, judicial reform, judicial restructuring
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