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  • Investigating the Jana Adalat of the 1996–2006 armed conflict in Nepal

  • Yugichha Sangroula
  • Journal:
    International Review of the Red Cross / Volume 102 / Issue 914 / August 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 November 2021, pp. 789-806

  • The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M), an organized armed group, engaged in a non-international armed conflict against the Government of Nepal between 1996 and 2006. During the armed conflict, the organized armed group operated a judicial system in the territories under its effective control, called the Jana Adalat (the People's Court). The legitimacy of the Jana Adalat has been a contentious subject matter. This article examines the historical, legal and practical dimensions of the Jana Adalat, especially focusing on the perspectives of the CPN-M.

  • Introduction

  • Sascha Auerbach, University of Nottingham
  • Book:
    Armed with Sword and Scales
    Published online:
    05 February 2021
    Print publication:
    04 February 2021, pp 1-46

  • Summary

    The introduction defines “courtroom culture” as the constant interplay of law, informal practice, courtroom dialogue, cultural norms and social identity from which the dynamics and meanings of courtroom events were fashioned. Such dynamics and meanings, I argue, did not emerge fully formed from pre-existing patterns in English law and society, but were shaped on a daily basis by those in court and beyond it. This active process of generating, negotiating, and contesting the meaning of courtroom events are examined in the chapters that follow. Having outlined the fundamental arguments of the book, the Introduction engages the relevant historiography and theory on these issues and provides a brief chapter outline.