Rule of Law

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Example in practice

 

Afghanistan has searched to re-establish the rule of law following the exit of the Taliban in 2001 from government, focusing on rebuilding state and non-state institutions that promote the application ofpublic rules which are fair, independent and equally enforced.67

 

Relevant links

 

—— African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption.

http://www.africaunion.org/Official_documents/Treaties_%20Conventions_%20Protocols/Convention%20on%20Combating%20Corruption.pdf

 

—— American Bar Association: Rule of Law Initiative.

http://www.abanet.org/rol/programs/resource_anticorruption.html

 

—— European Institute of Public Administration: Rule of Law.

http://www.eipa.eu/files/repository/eipascope/20070622102127_pniSCOPE2007-1_internet-7.pdf.

 

—— OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.

http://www.oecd.org/document/34/0,3343,en_2649_34487_2068514_1_1_1_1,00.html.

 

—— UN Convention against Corruption.

http://www.unodc.org/pdf/corruption/publications_unodc_convention-e.pdf.

 

66 Helen Yu and Alison Guernsey, “What is the Rule of Law”. Center for International Finance and Development. (Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa, 2005). http://www.uiowa.edu/ifdebook/faq/Rule_of_Law.shtml

 

Rachel Kleinfeld Belton, “Competing Definitions of the Rule of Law: Implications for Practitioners”. Carnegie Paper No. 55 (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for Peace, January 2005). http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/CP55.Belton.FINAL.pdf.

 

67 Leigh Toomey and J. Alexander Thier, “Bridging Modernity and Tradition: Rule of Law and Search for Justice in Afghanistan”. USI Peace Briefing (Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace, October 2007).

http://www.usip.org/pubs/usipeace_briefings/2007/1031_afghanistan.html.