Statebuilding, legal pluralism, and irregular warfare: assessing the Dutch mission in Kunduz province, Afghanistan

This article focuses on external statebuilding through judicial reform. It contributes to the existing literature on state- and peacebuilding with an analysis of two local realities that affect judicial reform during external statebuilding interventions: legal pluralism and irregular warfare. Using the Dutch Integrated Police-training Mission (IPM) as a case study, it analyses how judicial reform was understood in the Dutch mission in contrast with the perceptions and conduct of Afghan civilians in Kunduz province, Afghanistan. The article shows that the Dutch IPM did not sufficiently consider... Mehr ...