Rule of Law, Power Distribution, and the Problem of Faction in Conflict Interventions

Abstract

This chapter will concern the rule of law as it relates to third-party interventions into violent conflicts: peacekeeping missions, humanitarian interventions, peacebuilding, and the like. This context will help fix the boundaries of the very general idea of rule of law, and suggest how we should conceptualize it for these contexts. This chapter will attempt to examine the role of law in a post-conflict society, and begin to develop a concept of rule of law appropriate to that context.