Helene Kyed

Danish Institute For International Studies, Peace, Risk and Violence, Senior Researcher

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Anthropologist working on justice provision, local dispute resolution and policing in transitional societies, especially Mozambique and Myanmar
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Myanmar: Urban Housing Diagnostic & COVID-19 Rapid Assessment

The dynamics of legal pluralism in Mozambique

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Traditional' leaders formalization in post-war Mozambique: exploring the ambiguous space between state and non-state domains

Post-war police reform in Mozambique

State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa : A New Dawn for Traditional Authorities?

Development and Change, as well as numerous peer-reviewed book articles on human rights, truth an... more

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Five/ Predicament

University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2017

State recognition of local authorities and public participation: experiences, obstacles and possibilities in Mozambique = O reconhecimento pelo estado das autoridades locais e da participação pública: experiências, obstáculos e possibilidades em Moçambique

Multi-Choice Policing in Africa by Bruce Baker Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2008. Pp. 227, Euro 31 (pb)

Journal of Modern African Studies, Feb 18, 2009

... Despite attempts by many post-colonial govern-ments to establish a monopoly of state policing... more

Inside the Police Stations in Maputo City

Oxford University Press eBooks, Dec 21, 2017

This chapter explores how police officers in Maputo, Mozambique, deal with everyday criminal case... more This chapter explores how police officers in Maputo, Mozambique, deal with everyday criminal cases. It discusses how police officers draw on a large and flexible repertoire of measures when handling cases, some of them formal, others informal. Their choice is often shaped by the competition for legitimacy they find themselves in with communities and private actors.

Dilemmas of articulation in Mozambique: customary justice in transition

Policing and the Politics of Order-Making

The RUSI Journal, 2015

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Community policing in rural Mozambique and Sierra Leone

Ceasefire State-Making and Justice Provision by Ethnic Armed Groups in Southeast Myanmar

This article explores the state-making efforts of two ethnic armed organizations in Southeast Mya... more This article explores the state-making efforts of two ethnic armed organizations in Southeast Myanmar through the lens of justice provision. Engaging with current debates about rebel governance and empirical state formation, the article argues that ethnic armed organizations cannot simply be dismissed as rebels focused on extraction and coercion alone, but are also state-makers who nurture legitimate authority. We add to this debate by introducing the new concept of 'ceasefire state-making' to capture the particular dynamics of contested state-making and constitution of authority in the liminal phase between armed conflict and a pending peace agreement.

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Police under the military coup in Myanmar: Between Violence, Fear, and Desertion

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DIIS PB Climate Change Myanmar WEB

Violent conflict and state oppression in Myanmar demonstrates the importance of placing conflict ... more

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Legal Pluralism and International Development Agencies: State Building or Legal Reform?

Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 2011

In the early years of this century most of the legal and judicial reform work of International De... more In the early years of this century most of the legal and judicial reform work of International Development Agencies (hereafter IDAs) focused mainly on state institutions. Today, things have changed. After the disappointing outcomes of many years of legal and judicial reform and in view of the enormous challenges posed by state building in numerous fragile and failed states, IDAs are beginning to accept that governance and justice mechanisms that operate either outside the framework of the state or in the fringes between state and society-non-state justice systems (hereafter NSJS)-are indispensable components of reform processes aimed at improving the overall performance of legal and judicial institutions. Th e materials discussed in this paper, drawn from Latin America and Africa, suggest that any successful engagement with NSJS requires a deep understanding of both local state structures and political processes. It also requires an in-depth understanding of the state and community within which NSJS operate. Indeed, as this paper shows, successful engagement should be seen as part of a continuing process of state building. Unless IDAs are willing to take a wider and more political approach to their involvement with NSJS, they will not achieve meaningful progress in rule of law and governance projects.

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Everyday Justice in Myanmar

Migration and Security Challenges in Yangon's Informal Settlements

Traditional authority and localization of state law: The intricacies of boundary marking in policing rural Mozambique

Ceasefire State-Making and Justice Provision by Ethnic Armed Groups in Southeast Myanmar

Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 2019

Abstract:This article explores the state-making efforts of two ethnic armed organizations in Sout... more Abstract:This article explores the state-making efforts of two ethnic armed organizations in Southeast Myanmar through the lens of justice provision. Engaging with current debates about rebel governance and empirical state formation, the article argues that ethnic armed organizations cannot simply be dismissed as rebels focused on extraction and coercion alone, but are also state-makers who nurture legitimate authority. We add to this debate by introducing the new concept of 'ceasefire state-making' to capture the particular dynamics of contested state-making and constitution of authority in the liminal phase between armed conflict and a pending peace agreement.

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