The head of the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) Access to Justice Programme, Fergus Kerrigan, discusses informal justice systems in series of videos (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4). This is one of the topics the Security Sector Governance Project at CIGI is currently working on, and I learned a lot from 
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Danish Institute for Human Rights’ Fergus Kerrigan discusses Informal Justice Systems
By: Geoff Burt | Monday, July 25th, 2011Conference Report: At the Margins of SSR: Gender and Informal Justice
By: Geoff Burt | Wednesday, March 30th, 2011In September 2010, CIGI and the North-South Institute hosted a conference entitled, “At the Margins of SSR: Gender and Informal Justice,” which aimed to increase awareness of gender and informal justice, two areas of security sector reform (SSR) that have often been overlooked. The morning session examined southern women’s experiences with police reform, and the
Reconciling the formal and the informal: New report provides framework for informal justice reform
By: Jesse Hembruff | Wednesday, August 4th, 2010The concept of informal justice has long been a sticking point for justice reform practitioners. In many target countries informal justice systems have existed for decades, in some cases resolving 70-90 percent of disputes, and are inexorably tied to local customs and notions of justice. This is a double edged sword. Informal justice can be
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