ISBN:
9780197530429
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 273 Seiten
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2 Karten
Uniform Title:
Addressing crises of order
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Swenson, Geoffrey Contending legal orders
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Swenson, Geoffrey, 1981 - Contending orders
Dissertation note:
Dissertation University of Oxford 2015
DDC:
341.6/609581
Keywords:
Postwar reconstruction Law and legislation
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Postwar reconstruction Law and legislation
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Nation-building
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Nation-building
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Legal polycentricity
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Legal polycentricity
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Konflikt
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Auswirkung
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Failed State
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Begrenzte Staatlichkeit
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Rechtsordnung
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Rechtsstaat
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Rechtspluralismus
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Recht
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Tradition
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Allgemeine Rechtsgrundsätze
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Afghanistan Politics and government 2001-
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Timor-Leste Politics and government 2002-
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Osttimor
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Afghanistan
Abstract:
In most countries, it is the norm for state courts to operate alongside powerful non-state justice systems, whose roots lie in custom, religion, or tradition. Indeed, non-state justice is frequently the dominant form of legal order. In the developing world, an estimated 80 to 90 percent of disputes are handled outside the state justice system, and nearly all post-conflict states feature extensive legal pluralism because of the weak institutions and contested authority endemic to conflict and post-conflict states. Yet the role of legal pluralism is frequently misunderstood and when different justice systems clash, prolonged, potentially even violent conflict, can result. In Contending Orders, Geoffrey Swenson proposes a new way to understand how state and non-state authorities interact by exploring the full range of legally pluralist environments-combative, competitive, cooperative, and complementary. Drawing upon insights from Afghanistan and Timor-Leste, two countries with extensive legal pluralism, he identifies and critically examines commonly used strategies in legally pluralistic environments. Swenson also illustrates how national and international actors can better engage non-state justice systems. Further, Swenson shows how multiple justice systems can not only co-exist but work together to contribute to the development of a democratic state bound by the rule of law. It is not enough to merely recognize that legal pluralism exists; scholars and policymakers must understand how legal pluralism actually functions. Contending Orders both analyzes the forces that are shaping the relationship between the state and non-state justice worldwide and offers policy strategies to promote the rule of law and good governance wherever legal pluralism thrives.
Note:
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Oxford, 2015) issued under title: Addressing crises of order : judicial state-building in the wake of conflict
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 237-268, Register
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Law, order, and conflict
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Understanding the challenge
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The rule of law after conflict
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Understanding and engaging pluralist legal orders
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Contending orders after conflict
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From competition to cooperation : building a new legal order in Timor-Leste
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International assistance for cooperation and exclusion in Timor-Leste
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From competition to combat : a deeply contested legal order in Afghanistan
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International subsidization of a rentier state in Afghanistan
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