The project started in 2021 with two qualitative research phases. The quantitative social science researcher is envisioned to join the project in October 2023, for the preparation and execution of the third and final research phase (November 2023 – August 2024). In this mostly quantitative phase, the team plans to conduct a nation-wide survey on access to justice in Libya, and – pending funding – four smaller surveys among ‘justice providing institutions’.
The A2JiL-project (2021-4) aims to ascertain whether, to which extent, and how, in a country plagued by political and institutional divide, armed conflict and lack of security, people have access to justice, and how to improve such access by identifying and reducing barriers. It will employ a socio-legal approach combining a legal analysis, consultations with stakeholders and interviews, and surveys. It will entail conferences, workshops, and meetings in Libya (or Tunisia) and the Netherlands to discuss, develop and disseminate its findings and recommendations.
Main responsibilities Under the supervision of the project leader, and working closely together with him, the socio-legal postdoctoral researcher, and other team members in the Netherlands and Libya, the quantitative social science researcher should perform the following tasks:
- Co-design a nation-wide survey on access to justice, adapted from the ‘Paths to Justice’-survey of Prof Hazel Genn and crime justice surveys.
- Pending funding approval: Co-design surveys for professionals working in key justice providing institutions: judges, prosecutors, wise men, and lawyers.
- Help in the co-ordination of the survey(s).
- Lead in the statistical analysis of the survey(s).
- Developing guidance notes, tools, and resources for Libyan researchers and enumerators.
- Give quantitative research training to enumerators.
- (Co-)write project reports and academic publications.
- Participate in project planning, organisation and reporting.