ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the complex area of justice and security following conflict. In some ways these can be seen as two separate subject areas, but they are inextricably entwined. First we look at the large subject of disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR), which forms the core of activities that immediately follow conflict in most places. This incorporates issues such as what to do with combatants, both rebel or insurgency movements and swollen militaries formed to fight them, and the types of activity designed to assist combatants to return to their communities. The chapter then goes on to examine the nature of security and justice in post-war situations, including the growth of crime and other security problems, along with the establishment of systems to tackle justice issues. This is a huge topic that covers a lot of complex ideas about the nature of justice and the law and what is applicable in a state emerging from conflict. Different perceptions of justice and the role of the international criminal court, international justice, transitional justice and local perceptions of justice are considered. Finally the idea of security sector reform is analysed as a means to bring together some of these issues and how it is used to make sense of the sometimes complicated lexicon used to describe peacebuilding, truth and reconciliation commissions, post-conflict reconstruction and public and individual security.
