摘要：A quick, efficient, and cost-effective provision of justice is considered to be the integral part ofgood governance. Absence of such an efficient judicial mechanism lead to conflicts which ismore significant in conflict societies and tribal structures. For ordinary man in dis-equilibriumsocieties, lack of good governance means rampant corruption, police brutality, dearth ofeducation and health infrastructure, high costly and less accessed justice, criminalized politicsand absence of social justice. The absence of justice and security constitutes a good reason foradoption of alternatives to the current legal and judicial governance structures. Structuredviolence against the state in lineage societies is a good manifestation of this perspective. TheSwat conflict presents a complex picture where loopholes in legal governance structurecontributed to the augmentation of the conflict. Costly and delayed justice system made groundfor opting the presented alternative swift decision making system by the Taliban. Empiricaldata suggests that average instituted cases in Malakand’s seven districts was almost half of thecases instituted in the whole province. This shows that communities here are comparativelymore litigant. To address the cases district courts are understaffed and lack case managementand delay reduction techniques. The average disposal of cases was less than the other districtsin the province. Per court disposal is comparatively high, however, average court pendency ishigher and average number of judges was lower comparatively. Such delayed, inefficient andcostly judicial governance produced catalytic effect on the conflict. This study is aimed atexamining how the gaps in the justice sector of governance led to augmenting the violenceagainst the state and what sort of intervention at government level is needed to strengthen ruleof law in the Swat valley
