Security and Justice Overview

The central theme of the 2011 World Development Report (WDR) is that violent conflict remains a constant threat to human rights, peace and sustainable development. While the nature of violent conflict maybe changing1 its negative impact on poor people in terms of rights violations, public health, forced displacement and diminution of life chances is the same. Critical to establishing peace and the necessary confidence between state and citizen is providing a sense of security, freedom from fear, and the protection of basic rights and entitlements. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship, overlapping and sometimes contradictory, between a range of approaches to security and justice in conflict affected contexts, and to place these efforts within a broader rule of law framework. This, it will be argued, greatly assists in addressing the kind of frictions and blind-spots that commonly exist in making the transition from violence to peace. The paper will then examine some of the instruments and approaches adopted by governments and international partners in addressing the kinds of stresses which result in violent conflict. Finally, it will examine the gaps in the international arena which continue to persist in this area of support. A series of security and justice-themed papers produced for the WDR 2011 outline in more detail the issues, approaches and lessons of the key components including: security, public security in peacekeeping settings, criminal justice, justice and administrative law, and transitional justice.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Sage, Caroline, Harborne, Bernard
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2010-03
Subjects:	ABUSE, ABUSES, ACCOUNTABILITY, AMNESTY, ARMED CONFLICT, ARMED CONFLICTS, ARMED GROUPS, ASSETS, BATTLE, CIVIL RIGHTS, CIVIL SOCIETY, CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS, CIVILIAN POPULATIONS, COMPROMISES, CONFIDENCE, CONFLICT MANAGEMENT, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, CONSENT, CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM, CONTAINMENT, CORRUPT, CORRUPT ACTS, CORRUPTION, COURTS, CRIME, CRIMES, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, CRIMINAL, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, DEMOBILIZATION, DISARMAMENT, DISENGAGEMENT, ECONOMIC CRIME, ECONOMIC RIGHTS, EQUAL TREATMENT, ETHNIC GROUPS, EX-COMBATANTS, EXTERNAL INTERVENTION, EXTORTION, FIGHTING, FREEDOM, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, GANG, GANGS, GENOCIDE, GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, GRAVE, HUMAN RIGHT, HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, HUMAN SECURITY, INDICTMENTS, INEQUALITIES, INEQUITIES, INITIATIVE, INJUSTICES, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, INTERNATIONAL NORMS, JUDICIAL SYSTEM, JURISDICTION, JUSTICE, LAWS, LEADERSHIP, LEGAL FRAMEWORK, LOCAL CONFLICT, MEMBER STATES, MILITARY INTERVENTIONS, MILITIA, NEEDS ASSESSMENT, NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT, NEGOTIATIONS, PEACE, PEACE RESEARCH, PEACEBUILDING, PEACEKEEPING, POLICE, POLITICAL SETTLEMENT, POLITICAL VIOLENCE, PRIORITIES, PRIVILEGE, PRIVILEGES, PROSECUTION, PUBLIC INFORMATION, PUBLIC OFFICIALS, PUBLIC OPINION, PUNISHMENT, RAPE, REBEL, RECONCILIATION, RECONSTRUCTION, ROAD, RULE OF LAW, SOVEREIGNTY, TERRORISM, THEMATIC PAPERS, TORTURE, TRAFFICKING, TRIBUNALS, UNDP, VICTIMS, VIOLENCE, VIOLENT CONFLICT, WAR, WAR CRIMES, WEAPONS, WHITE COLLAR CRIME, WORLD DEVELOPMENT, YOUTH,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/197971468332483951/Security-and-justice-overview-security-and-justice-thematic-paper https://hdl.handle.net/10986/27505
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