Publication

This report analyzes programs that addressed the so-called informal justice sector in Afghanistan from 2008 to 2011. It focuses on a series of pilot projects 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.