Alex Batesmith, Improving the Effectiveness of International Lawyers in Rule of Law and Transitional Justice Projects

摘要: Improving personal effectiveness has been a popular subject for many decades in the business world. However, transitional justice and rule of law, only relatively recently topic interest, as researchers investigate reasons why international legal interventions succeed they fail. This paper examines issue law from perspective actors themselves – lawyers especially work with their national counterparts to achieve objectives. The report analyses barriers intercultural at individual level lawyers. main part this then focuses on specific knowledge, skills values through which an lawyer may be able optimise own effectiveness. In particular, we highlight desirability full factual briefing before starting different country, need effective communication organisational importance adopting flexible attitude understanding one’s professional limitations. We will also discuss how institutions hiring can take concrete practical steps improve success interventions, by helping staff consultants become more interculturally effective.The methodology is qualitative than fifty experience working were surveyed reflections workplace. author drawn his experiences discussions both colleagues, having spent ten years field criminal development.This was commissioned Lawyers, Conflict & Transition project three-year initiative funded Economic Social Research Council that run partnership between School Law, Queen’s University Belfast Transitional Justice Institute.