During the summer of 2013, The Hague Institute for Global Justice (Hague Institute) contracted with New-Rule to conduct a comparative study on contemporary peacebuilding. Over the last decade, peacebuilding efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq represent two of the largest, and most complicated, multilateral undertakings. As these peacebuilding efforts progressed, international consensus on the centrality of rule of law as a programming component increased as well. New-Rule organized and led a study that describes and analyzes some of the key issues that senior rule of law practitioners faced in Afghanistan and Iraq. The goal of the study was to identify a selection of the key challenges, the programmatic interventions involved, and the results that followed. The study team consisted of a lead author and editor, Scott Carlson, and four rule of law experts with respective hands-on experience: William Spencer and Erin Houlihan of the Institute for International Law and Human Rights, Charles Jakosa, and Robert Lochary.

Watch a video of Scott presenting this study at the Peace Palace in Hague (August 28-29, 2013). If you want to skip to see just Scott’s presentation, he is between 17.35th and 31.00th minute of this video.