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traditional leaders. 84% of the responses given by the traditionalleaders cited mistrust by communities as the biggest challengewhile 42% and 64% of the communities and local council leaderscited mistrust as a challenge. The mistrust was mainly caused bysome parties to a conflict accusing the traditional leaders ofsupporting or colluding with the other party. This is caused bythe fact that traditional leaders come from within thecommunities and may have personal relationships with some ofthe parties involved in a land wrangle.Besides, traditional leaders feel undermined especially by thewealthier categories who feel they can afford the costs of theformal system. Literally, this in a way is a ploy to disable the poorwho in most cases do not afford the costs of formal courts. Theintegration process needs to address the institutionalization ofthe informal systems so that they are not undermined by certainsects of the community.Other challenges mentioned were: lack of formal knowledge ofthe law, inaccessible areas, limited resources, cultural imbalancesand clan rivalry. The following figure summarizes the results.18Milestones towards the Integration of Informal Justice Mechanisms into the Formal System