Housing, Land, and Property Rights in Post-Conflict United Nations and Other Peace Operations: A Comparative Survey and Proposal for Reform

by Edited by Scott Leckie

• ISBN13: 9780521888233
• ISBN10: 0521888239
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-22
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

For more than sixty years, the blue helmets of United Nations Peacekeeping missions around the world have come to symbolize both the promise and the fragility of the UN. Beset with unresolved conflicts and underfunding, and invariably burdened with sentiments of over expectation, more times than not UN missions to keep the peace have made a difference. In recent years, frequent allegations of corruption, fraud, and abuse have tarnished the image of the UN as not only overly ineffectual, but as something to be skeptical of, rather than the obvious place to turn for help in resolving contentious challenges that affect many nations.

Author Biography

Scott Leckie is the director of Displacement Solutions and the founder of the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE). He is an international human rights lawyer, advocate, and researcher with some twenty years of experience in the international protection and promotion of human rights. He has carried out human rights work in more than sixty countries and has worked in expert and advisory capacities with many United Nations and other international agencies, including the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the UN Habitat Programme, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). He has worked in both the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and UN Transitional Authority in East Timor (UNTAET). He has written extensively on various human rights issues and lectures regularly at law schools in Switzerland, Thailand, and the United States.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Foreword	p. xvii
Introduction
United Nations Peace Operations and Housing, Land, and Property Rights in Post-Conflict Settings: From Neglect to Tentative Embrace	p. 3
Case Studies
Stability, Justice, and Rights in the Wake of the Cold War: The Housing, Land, and Property Rights Legacy of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia	p. 19
The Response of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo to Address Property Rights Challenges	p. 61
Balancing Rights and Norms: Property Programming in East Timor, the Solomon Islands, and Bougainville	p. 103
Housing, Land, and Property Restitution Rights in Afghanistan	p. 136
Peacekeeping and HLP Rights in the Great Lakes Region of Africa: Burundi, Rwanda, and DR Congo	p. 179
The Trouble with Iraq: Lessons from the Field on the Development of a Property Restitution System in "Post"-Conflict Circumstances	p. 220
Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement: An Opportunity for Coherently Addressing Housing, Land, and Property Issues?	p. 260
The Impacts of UN Peace Operations on Local Housing Markets	p. 310
Conclusions
Possible Components of a Unified Global Policy on Housing, Land, and Property Rights in UN Peace Operations	p. 329
Index	p. 357
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