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Introduction to the Special Issue: Legal Pluralism and International Development Interventions

The concept of legal pluralism is no longer solely an analytical concept, used by socio-legal scholars to describe the plurality of normative orders and institutions that enforce order within a political organization. It is today an explicit ‘policy concept’ applied in the policies of international development agencies and of some governments. Such has been the case especially during the past five to ten years. This special issue is about the influence of international development intervention on situations of legal pluralism as part of Western donors’ support to justice and security reform in so-called ‘fragile states’ and in developing countries undergoing democratic transition. It therefore explores one aspect of legal pluralism as a