ABSTRACT
The process of regime change in a country can be a fraught one. You will have seen many examples from around the world of Presidents and Governments being forced from offi ce by coup, armed insurrection and bloody civil war. There is an equally long (and perhaps even more depressing) history of failed attempts to oust a regime, with the defeated insurgents suffering terrible retribution. Unless there are clear, strict and widely accepted rules for transition from one governing regime to another, the result is likely to be disruption, violence and misery.
