Securing the Bridge from the Other End: Tactical Rule of Law in Non-Western Countries | Small...

"This paper discusses the importance, and the danger of neglecting the transitional justice effort at the lowest levels and provides necessary information for tactical legal advisors in order to enable them to fully engage with their own rule of law programs that complement the national program. Tactical units and their legal advisors, those entities that have the most contact, and sometimes the only contact, with villages and villagers in rural areas, have largely been left out of the transitional justice process to the detriment of the rule of law program. While operational level - and even strategic level - rule of law efforts are ongoing, brigade combat teams and smaller tactical elements that are responsible for local security, must resource and facilitate transitional justice from the bottom-up."