Emergency Law Responses and Conflict-Affected States in Transition

Mar 13, 2021 | Erin Houlihan, Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher, Sean Molloy, Christine Bell, and Asanga Welikala
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Some type of emergency law response to Covid-19 has been used in most states. However, conflict ‘fault lines’ can mean that the ways in which countries use the law has the potential to undermine transitions from conflict to peace and authoritarianism to democracy. This short post identifies a number of key areas where emergency law responses potentially conflict with or undermine efforts to transition. This post serves as an introduction to some of the wider themes discussed in the 2021 Stockholm Forum session hosted by the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law, International IDEA and the Political Settlements Research Programme.