Giselle Corradi

• Ghent University

The field of ‘critical indigenous rights studies’ is a complex one that benefits from an interdisciplinary perspective and a realist (as opposed to an idealised) approach to indigenous peoples. This book draws on sociology of law, anthropology, political sciences and legal sciences in order to address emerging issues in the study of indigenous righ...

This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field. As a social phenomenon, legal pluralism exists in all societies. As a legal construction, it is characteristic of particular regions, such as post-col...

Corradi ’ s analysis of how the right to a fair trial may be interpreted cross-culturally suggests that areas of tension between indigenous procedural norms and mainstream interpretations of this right may open windows of opportunity for exchange and collaboration between state and indigenous authorities, which may strengthen both indigenous and st...

In this volume, we interrogate how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in contexts of legal pluralism, and influence interactions that are subject to regulation by more than one normative regime. Legal pluralism refers to the coexistence of more than one legal order in a particular field of social relations. The concept denotes a pluralit...

This paper reviews and reflects upon the literature in which children's rights and legal pluralism stand at the core. This scholarship has mainly addressed three research questions: how global children's rights standards interrelate with local normative orders and practices; how children as well as justice providers navigate legally plural orders;...

Due to a number of important differences between transitional justice and justice sector aid, this book explored how international actors address ‘traditional justice’ in these fields in two distinct parts, which has led to separate analyses. Justice sector aid is often part of broader development cooperation programmes, which may or may not take p...

International actors providing justice sector and human rights aid in Sub-Saharan Africa are confronted with several considerable challenges. In the first place, they face a context of legal pluralism, where state justice is not dominant. At the same time, state justice has historically benefited from a privileged epistemological position... Intern...

International actors, such as multilateral, bilateral and non-governmental donors and organisations, play an important role in teh legal landscapes of Sub-Saharan Africa. On the one hand, they support tansitional justice initiatives in the framework of post-conflict reconstruction efforts. On the other hand, they provide assistance for intervention...

How do international development actors providing aid to the justice sector in Sierra Leone position themselves in view of legal pluralism and the promotion of human rights in local justice processes?

This chapter pinpoints salient trends regarding the sort of interventions that international development actors are supporting in the domain of legal justice aid.

We discuss how international development actors providing aid in the justice sector in Mozambique position themselves regarding legal pluralism and the promotion of human rights within local justice processes.

In order to understand the context in which development actors operate and the nature of their interventions regarding local legal orders in Sub-Saharan Africa, it is necessary to sketch out two issues. On the one hand, a number of common threads running across the justice landscpaes of the continent, including a brief overview of how historical de...

We formulate a number of mutual findings and recommendations. First, the chapter discusses common elements at the level of policies, then it identifies a number of trends regarding interventions of justice legal aid, and finally it examines the way in wich international actors handle the tension between traditional justice and human rights.

International actors providing justice sector and human rights aid in Africa encounter specific challenges, such as a context of legal pluralism, where state justice is generally weak or distrusted, and of cultural diversity and contextual specificity, with human rights not necessarily being known or considered legitimate by all. Here we analyse ho...

Improving ‘access to justice for the poor’ features high on justice sector reform agendas in post conflict sub-Saharan Africa. This results in increased attention for the role of customary structures of dispute resolution at the grassroots. At the same time, it raises the challenge to address possible areas of tension between customary justice and...

This contribution explores the links between women’s lived realities with plural law and development interventions that aim at improving women’s access to justice. Based on a case study in Pemba city, northern Mozambique, the paper illustrates the relevance of incorporating ‘actor oriented’ perspectives on gender and legal change within justice sec...

This article discusses how international development actors providing aid to the justice sector in legally plural contexts can support reforms to the normative framework for legal pluralism that contribute to advancing human rights. Based on the case of Mozambique, the article argues that reforms to the normative framework for legal pluralism shoul...

This dissertation examines the role of justice sector aid in sub-Saharan Africa regarding the relationship between human rights and local legal orders from a normative and empirical point of view. At the normative level, it explores how socio-legal theory on legal pluralism and human rights’ cross-contextual implementation may inform the practice o...

Dit boek onderzoekt hoe internationale actoren in Sub-Sahara Afrika omgaan met traditionele rechtsinstellingen en mechanismen voor geschillenbeslechting in het kader van transitional justice en ontwikkelingshulp aan de justitiesector. Daartoe werden het beleid en de interventies van internationale actoren in zes landen (Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda,...

This article discusses the role of justice sector aid in sub-Saharan Africa, and its implications for legal pluralism and the implementation of human rights at grass roots level. Based on a case study in Mozambique, the article argues that development actors can potentially play a crucial role in contributing to the implementation of human rights w...

This dissertation examines the role of justice sector aid in sub-Saharan Africa regarding the relationship between human rights and local legal orders from a normative and empirical point of view. At the normative level, it explores how socio-legal theory on legal pluralism and human rights’ cross-contextual implementation may inform the practice o...

This volume aims to produce a better understanding of the relationship between tradition and justice in Africa. It presents contributions of six African scholars related to current international discourses on access to justice and human rights and on the localisation of transitional justice. The contributions suggest that access to justice and appr...