As we embrace dilemmas of justice around the 2007/8 post-election violence, there has been a resurgence of the philosophy of Alternative Justice System born in the turbulent years of the 1980s and 1990s, when the integrity of the Judiciary was at ground zero. In 2006, the Governance, Justice, Law and Order Sector (GJLOS) released findings of its research, which suggested only 4 per cent of the litigating population in Kenya submit legal disputes to law courts, while the rest, about 96 per cent, all prefer informal judicial means.