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Grass-roots Justice in Ethiopia

The Contribution of Customary Dispute Resolution

This book presents a timely review of the relations between the formal and customary justice systems in Ethiopia, and offers recommendations for legal reform. The book provides cases studies from all the Region of Ethiopia based on field research on the working of customary dispute resolution (CDR) institutions, their mandates, compositions, procedures and processes. The cases studies also document considerable unofficial linkages with the state judicial system, and consider the advantages...


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  • Publisher : Centre français des études éthiopiennes
  • Series : Corne de l’Afrique contemporaine / Contemporary Horn of Africa | 2
  • Place of publication : Addis-Abeba
  • Year of publication : 2008
  • Published on OpenEdition Books : 28 juillet 2016
  • EAN (Print version) : 978-99944-808-2-1
  • Electronic EAN : 978-2-8218-7234-9
  • DOI : 10.4000/books.cfee.471
  • Number of pages : 301 p.
Alula Pankhurst and Getachew Assefa
Understanding Customary Dispute Resolution in Ethiopia

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