Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law

This special issue contains papers on international development interventions that offer support to justice and security reforms in so-called "fragile states." Following an introduction by guest editor Helene Maria Kyed, the book includes papers on: justice and security architecture in Africa
• reconfiguring state and non-state actors in the provision of safety in (South) Africa - implications for bottom-up policing arrangements and for donor funding
• the consequences of ideals-oriented rule of law policy-making in Liberia
• the politics of customary law ascertainment in South Sudan
• hybrid and 'everyday' political ordering - constructing and contesting legitimacy in Somaliland
• spinning a conflict management web in Vanuatu - creating and strengthening links between state and non-state legal institutions
• decentralized power and traditional authorities - how power determines access to justice in Sierra Leone
• delivering justice - the changing gendered dynamics of land tenure in Botswana. (Series: The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law - Vol. 63)