Programmatic strategies

States should consider recognizing traditional justice systems and incorporating them into their legal framework to improve compliance with human rights. Whether doing so will improve the legal system is, nevertheless, a topic of debate, with some arguing that integrating traditional justice systems into the legal framework would undermine the voluntary nature of the traditional process, defeat the concept of social consensus and public participation, and create the risk that decisions would be overturned on appeal due to the lack of strict procedural rule in traditional forums, according to this argument.

Related Subject(s): International Law and Justice