Community Mediators in South Sudan: Empirical Legitimacy and Post-conflict Rule of Law Building

IF 0.6 Q2 Social Sciences
J. Ubink, Bernardo Ribeiro de Almeida
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Abstract

The scholarship on legitimacy of dispute settlement institutions has largely ignored community mediation institutions operating in the global south. This article aims to remedy that gap, through a case study of community mediation groups in South Sudan, a state emerging from large-scale conflict where formal courts are only marginally able to fulfill their assigned roles and the rule of law needs to be built almost from the ground-up. The article studies both the empirical legitimacy of the community mediation groups and how they relate to the rule of law building project in the country. Is the empirical legitimacy of formal and informal dispute settlement institutions as a zero-sum relationship, where increasing popularity and use of informal dispute settlement institutions detract from the popularity and empirical legitimacy of formal institutions, inhibiting the maturation of the legal system and a rule of law? Or could informal dispute settlement institutions – with proper linkages to the formal system – strengthen formal institutions, both judicial and administrative? These are highly relevant questions for post-conflict states where building a well-functioning legal system is seen as a precondition for sustainable peace and development.
南苏丹社区调解员:实证合法性与冲突后法治建设
关于争端解决机构合法性的学术研究在很大程度上忽视了在南半球运作的社区调解机构。本文旨在通过对南苏丹社区调解团体的案例研究来弥补这一差距,南苏丹是一个刚刚从大规模冲突中崛起的国家,在那里,正式法院只能勉强履行其指定的角色,法治几乎需要从头开始建设。本文既研究了社区调解团体的实证合法性,又研究了社区调解团体与我国法治建设项目的关系。正式和非正式争端解决机构的经验合法性是否是一种零和关系,其中非正式争端解决机构的日益普及和使用减损了正式机构的普及和经验合法性,从而抑制了法律体系和法治的成熟?或者与正式制度有适当联系的非正式争端解决机构能加强司法和行政两方面的正式机构吗?这些都是与冲突后国家高度相关的问题,在这些国家,建立一个运作良好的法律体系被视为可持续和平与发展的先决条件。
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