This chapter explores some of the broader challenges and repercussions, both positive and negative, that have accompanied the pursuit of gender justice in a context of ongoing fragility and weakness. It begins by considering donor-driven incentives to foreground particular issues and activities and de-emphasize others. Second, it warns of the dangers of building legal capacity amidst pervasive corruption, and the potential for criminal justice processes to be coopted by local power brokers, or for the justice system to disproportionately target political, ethnic or economic outsiders. Third, it questions the feasibility of international organizations “substituting” for the state where it is weak or absent. Finally, the chapter weighs the perils and pitfalls of advocacy at the peripheries of statehood against some of the longer-term positive externalities that may result from increased legal attention to gender-based violence.