Informal Justice and the International Community in Afghanistan by Noah Coburn - HTML preview

Finally, the systemic issues and the key lessons learned that have appeared in the course of this work in Afghanistan point to wider issues related to the relative lack of coordination between those funding justice initiatives, academics studying these issues, governments working to improve justice delivery, and communities struggling with their own justice issues. At this point, most of the work on informal justice has been done on a country-by-country basis, with only a few attempts at wider synthesis or testing the basic assumptions that are the foundation for this report and countless other projects. In general, more research needs to be conducted, but perhaps even more importantly, efforts in various countries should be better linked, creating wider discussions on justice and the international community. 121