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== Continuity during disruption ==

Continuity during disruption is the principle that law, authority, and responsibility do not end when normal conditions are broken.  
Disruption tests law; it does not suspend it.

Wars, displacement, epidemics, colonial interference, bans on ceremony, and forced governance changes do not erase responsibility.

=== Forms of disruption ===
Disruption may include:
* forced removal from territory
* bans on feasts or gatherings
* imposition of foreign governance systems
* incarceration or targeting of name holders
* loss of access to land, food systems, or meeting places
* deliberate suppression of language and law

Disruption is often imposed, not chosen.

=== What must continue during disruption ===
Even under disruption, the following must continue:
* remembrance of adaawk
* recognition of names and succession
* acknowledgment of responsibility
* witnessing of events, even informally
* intention to restore proper process when possible

Law may adapt in form, but not disappear in substance.

=== Adaptation without surrender ===
During disruption, continuity may be maintained through:
* private or reduced witnessing
* delayed feast acknowledgment
* oral transmission within families or houses
* symbolic or provisional actions held in trust
* quiet stewardship until public process can resume

Adaptation preserves law without conceding authority.

=== Deferred acknowledgment ===
When full protocol cannot occur:
* obligations are carried forward
* acknowledgment is postponed, not cancelled
* future feasts complete what disruption interrupted

Deferred does not mean invalid.

=== Risk during disruption ===
Disruption creates opportunity for:
* external denial
* internal confusion
* opportunistic claims of authority
* loss of memory

Maintaining continuity during disruption is an active responsibility.

=== Restoration after disruption ===
When disruption ends:
* authority is publicly reaffirmed
* unresolved matters are acknowledged
* violations during disruption are addressed
* continuity is made visible again

Restoration completes the legal arc.

=== Core principle ===
'''Disruption may interrupt practice, but it does not dissolve responsibility.'''  
What is held in trust during hardship must be carried back into the light.

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== Future links ==
* [[Intergenerational continuity]]
* [[Living Witnesses]]
* [[Feast acknowledgment]]
* [[Protection against external denial]]
* [[Adaawk as Legal Memory]]