Access to justice is more than improving people’s access to courts by ensuring legal representation. Access to justice is defined as the ability of people to seek and obtain remedies through formal institutions with a formal judicial life for complaints in accordance with human rights standards. Where citizens, especially marginalized groups, fear the system, find it alienating and do not have access to it. Access to justice does not exist. Where the justice system is financially inaccessible. Where people do not have a lawyer. Where people lack information and awareness of their rights. Where there is a weak justice system. Access to justice includes normative legal protection, legal awareness, legal aid and advice, enforcement, and civil society monitoring. Access to justice supports sustainable peace because it gives people a more attractive alternative to violence in resolving personal and political disputes.