TY - BOOK ID - 134408110 TI - Framing Local Conflict and Justice in Bangladesh AU - Das, Maitreyi Bordia AU - Maru, Vivek PY - 2011 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Gender and Law KW - Judicial System Reform KW - Justice KW - Law and Development KW - Legal Institutions of the Market Economy KW - Legal Products KW - Local conflict KW - Local dispute resolution KW - Policy reforms KW - Public Sector Corruption & Anticorruption Measures KW - Qualitative evidence UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134408110 AB - The institutional landscape of local dispute resolution in Bangladesh is rich: it includes the traditional process of shalish, longstanding and impressive civil society efforts to improve on shalish, and a somewhat less-explored provision for gram adalat or village courts. Based on a nationally representative survey, qualitative evidence from focus groups, and a telephone survey of 40 Union Parishad chairpersons (a little less than 1 percent of the total Union Parishads), it provides both an empirical mapping of local conflict and justice and pointers to possible policy reforms. It suggests a number of opportunities for strengthening local justice and argues that the village courts may pose a useful bridge between Bangladesh's informal and formal justice institutions. ER -