ABSTRACT
The next two chapters deal with police, justice and prison reform, as these are critical to sustainable peace and development, and moreover, have been established as core in most peace operations. The importance of police reform and how it can profoundly affect the stability or indeed reoccurrence of conflict is underlined by Haiti. The way that police reform was conducted was a principal contributing factor in increasing destabilisation and insecurity and to the police force’s gradual unravelling after 1994. The fact that police, justice and prison reform were not approached concurrently or recognised for the way in which they interact and are interdependent also added to the volatility. After 2004 lessons were learnt from the previous experience, but it took over two years of UN presence before a more effective police reform process could begin. This was a result of numerous factors, including an unwilling transitional government, donors with different agendas and lack of international cooperation and coordination.
