Table of contents : Preface: Erica Harper ... INTRODUCTION: - Non-state and Customary Actors in Development Programs: Peter Albrecht and Helene Maria Kyed... CHAPTER 1 - Women?s Access to Justice, Legal Pluralism and Fragile States Tanja Chopra and Deborah Isser... CHAPTER 2 - Finding the Pulse of Peace Operations: The Case for Privileging ?Political? Rather than Technical Forces Bryn Hughes... CHAPTER 3 - The International Community and the ? Shura Strategy? in Afghanistan Noah Coburn... CHAPTER 4 - Pragmatism, Proximity and Pashtunwali: Informal Justice at the District Level in Helmand Province Kate Fearon... CHAPTER 5 - Strengthening International Programming on Access to Justice for the Poor and for Women: Lessons learnt from Pakistan?s Musalihat Anjumans and other programs Cassandra Balchin... CHAPTER 6 - Village Justice in Indonesia: Defining the ?State? and ?Non - state? in Dispute Resolution Processes Matthew Zurstrassen... CHAPTER 7 - Popular Concepts of Justice and Fairness in Ghana: Testing the Legitimacy of New or Hybrid Forms of State Justice Richard C Crook, Kojo Asante, and Victor Brobby... CHAPTER 8 - Experiences of Informal Justice and Security Provision in a Fragile Environment - The Case of the Terai Region in Nepal: Competition for power and order Lars Peter Lopez Christensen and René Taus Hansen... CHAPTER 9 - From Practice to Policy, and Back: Emerging Lessons from Working with Community-Based Justice Mechanisms in Helmand, Afghanistan Mette Lindorf Nielsen .