Turmoil, Teaching, Training, and Transformation Global Rule of Law Development in the Twenty-First Century Gregg B. Brelsford The le of hw bales no bred, unable o cht Te Rl low ‘pHi ad Ober Es150 | CARSERS IN INTERNATIONAL.LAW © yo uto belive! Stand et fly for use, os winasses fo Alah, evn as again! youtoles, or your ports your in, and hate be agin 1c ex poorer Aloh can bat protec bo “Tarmeil: Evacuation during the Egyption Revolution ‘A machine gun letered sporadically in the distant daskness at I answced an emergency 3:00 am. phone cal fom my organizations Weshington, DC, headquarters, and then I groggy serambed to pack, evacuate, and le the vilenee exploding in Cairo, Egypt, on ‘Auguut 13,2013, The crescendo of body street battles between the Egyptian army that ousted former President Mobamed Mors six weekscrlerand the Muslim Brotheshod he belonged owas ple ing. After neatly six weeks of this violence, my US-based regional Aircctr had had enough and ordered the country ditctor and me to leave Fgypt immediately (Ou: regional director gave us three hours to gather the barest of belongs and taxi tothe alzprt Inthe eee quiet ofthe easly dawn shadows, as Muslims kneeled on their prayer mats and pecfemed thelr morning prayers and before another day offeree battle erupted, ‘we rusbed to catch light out. We raced pat abandoned cacases of burned-out cars, buteced barricades, and broken tear ga canisters ‘hat tered the sets fom recent clashes. Out regional directors presence was quickly and dramatically borne out The morning after out plan tok of the Egyptian gore «ramet forcibly removed thousands of protestors fom encampments in two of Cairo’ public squares, ALNabda Square and Rabaa AI- Adnwia Squace. Approximately one thousand protestors soles, and pelice ofcers ded, and more than fourteen hundeed were injured “The interim government deslaged a month-long tat of mar. til lw ad a dusleto-den curfew, la e th re tiv &ed to on -enthe sspile onal rest of ormed pte, tically ies, fem “Tri Teaching, Trang, nd Transformation | 159 Tn deporting Cairo on April 13 1 wast seriously frightened for any safety ny wife and Tied in Zamalek, whic, because ofits age nerf foreign embassies, was azatvely protected neighborhood ‘of Car). But | san seriously feghtened forthe safety of our Eye finn staff and the many Egyptian frends and colleagues whom we lef bend and who lived in many ofthe wolent zones. CThankfll, none of them was hare by the vilence occuring before, duringy rafter this period) I was also seriously frightened fo the frure ‘tthe ABA’ Rule of Law Intative (ROLI) Egypt (ROLI-Eayp) programs! wae managing ‘We evicuted to Amman, Jordan, not knowing if or when we ‘would evr return to our staff and fends, our urgent rule of law ‘por or the belongings we lf behind. Amman was the location of the ROLL office nearest to Csiro, and the ROLL Jordan staff ook tain afi, After two weeks, our regional director cleared our Teeurntogypt We returned to martial a, 27:00 pam. to 6003. ‘rfow-~drng which the streets of Cairo, a city of twenty milion people, were completely deserted—and to sporadie, diffe, and on Tinting volence in greater Cairo, We sted backin and resumed our Tivs and delving our programs. Inestimable Vole of International Rule of Law Development Work Let me taste tsa that most rule flaw (ROL) development work ia developing conntie (he term developing country refers hereto ‘eonomi: development, ot the sophistication ofthe legal system ender and profesional) ental less extreme circumstances than a level of lent conflict that requzes evacuation from a host country: “This yr of situation is very unlikely to be the case for you. How= rer, any twenty frst-centary developing countries are rife with octal, yoiieal, exonomic,ethni, gender, and religious tensions, ‘pyre, disagreement, and confiet. Many twenty fis-centary ‘Teepe counties ne too. What distinguishes the tw s that many ‘developing countries have weak, ltl, or no (fete) institutions