Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

ISBN-13: 9781138465428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Jon Unruh

Opis

Considers post-conflict land rights in a wide variety of countries and in varied human and geographical settings. This title highlights problems and successes, describing the primary features important to understanding the complex issues involved in land rights following armed conflict.

Spis treści

Foreword 1. Land: A Foundation for Peacebuilding Part 1: Peace Negotiations Introduction 1. The Abyei Territorial Dispute between North and South Sudan: Why has its Resolution Proven Difficult? 2. Land Tenure and Peace Negotiations in Mindanao, Philippines Part 2: Response to Displacement and Dispossession Introduction 3. The Role of Restitution in Post-conflict Situations 4. Land Issues in Post-conflict Return and Recovery 5. Return of Land in Post-conflict Rwanda: International Standards, Improvisation, and the Role of International Humanitarian Organizations 6. Post-conflict Land Tenure Issues in Bosnia: Privatization and the Politics of Reintegrating the Displaced 7. Angola: Land resources and conflict 8. Refugees and Legal Reform in Iraq: The Iraqi Civil Code, International Standards for the Treatment of Displaced Persons and the Art of Attainable Solutions Part 3: Land Management Introduction 9. Snow Leopards and Cadastres: Rare Sightings in Post-conflict Afghanistan 10. Community Documentation of Land Tenure and its Contribution to State-building in Afghanistan 11. Title Wave: Land Tenure and Peacebuilding in Aceh 12. Beyond Land Redistribution: Lessons learned from El Salvador’s Unfulfilled Agrarian Revolution 13. Institutional Aspects of Resolving Land Disputes in Post-conflice Socities 14. Rebuilding Peace: Land and Water Management in the Kurdistan Region of Northern Iraq 15. Transboundary Resource Management Strategies in the Pamir Mountain Region of Tajikistan Part 4: Laws and Policies Introduction 16. Title through Possession or Position? Respect for Housing, Land, and Property Rights in Cambodia 17. Land Conflicts and Land Registration in Cambodia 18. Legal Frameworks and Land Issues in Muslim Mindanao 19. Unexplored Dimensions: Islamic Land Systems in Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iraq, and Somalia 20. Customary Law and Community-based Natural Resource Management in Post-conflict Timor-Leste Part 5: Lessons Learned 21. Lessons Learned in Land Tenure and Natural Resource Management in Post-conflict Societies

O autorze

Jon Unruh is a Professor of Geography at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Rhodri C. Williams is a human rights lawyer who specializes in land and forced-migration issues.