Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 04/2009

Recruitment of Rule of Law Specialists for the Civilian Response Corps

Scott Carlson, Michael Dziedzic

January 2009

United States Institute of Peace

Abstract

For more than a decade, experienced international practitioners and peace scholars have recognized that multilateral interventions in societies ravaged by internal conflict cannot succeed unless they come prepared to deal with the inevitable void in public security and inability of the legal system to function effectively. In 1998, two core components of any solution to this crucial deficiency were highlighted in Policing the New World Disorder.