Uncharted Territory
Land, Conflict and Humanitarian Action
Disputes over land often start conflicts; and land is often a key issue when refugees and internally displaced people attempt to return home when the conflict is over. Access to land affects people’s choice to return and their prospects of recovery. Yet humanitarian agencies largely neglect these wider issues on the basis that they are too complex and politically sensitive, and that they lie in the mandate of development or human rights organizations. Uncharted Territory bridges the humanitarian and land tenure divide and seeks to understand how housing, land and property issues can and should be practically incorporated into humanitarian responses. The book explores the theoretical nexus between land, conflict and humanitarianism, discusses the challenges for a more integrated response, and presents the findings of case studies from Angola, Colombia, Rwanda, and Sudan. This book should be read by humanitarian aid workers, policy analysts, academics, and government officials in developing countries.
Published: 2009
Pages: 256
eBook: 9781780440408
Paperback: 9781853396878
| Prelims (Foreword - Antonio Guterres, Acknowledgements) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | |||
| Part One: Land, conflict and humanitarian action: Exploring the nexus | |||
| 1. Why humanitarian organizations need to tackle land issues | |||
| Alex de Waal | |||
| 2. Tackling land tenure in the emergency to development transition in post-conflict states: From restitution to reform | |||
| Liz Alden Wily | |||
| Part Two: Humanitarian intervention in land issues: Lessons and challenges | |||
| 3. Humanitarian approaches to conflict and post-conflict legal pluralism in land tenure | |||
| Jon D. Unruh | |||
| 4. Land in return, reintegration and recovery processes: Some lessons from the Great Lakes region of Africa | |||
| Chris Huggins | |||
| 5. Leader of the pack: Who will take the lead on post-conflict HLP issues? | |||
| Scott Leckie | |||
| Part Three: Case studies | |||
| 6. International standards, improvisation and the role of international humanitarian organizations in the return of land in post- conflict Rwanda | |||
| John W. Bruce | |||
| 7. Land rights in Angola: Poverty and plenty | |||
| Conor Foley | |||
| 8. Going home: Land, return and reintegration in Southern Sudan and the Three Areas | |||
| Sara Pantuliano | |||
| 9. Between war and peace: Land and humanitarian action in Colombia | |||
| Samir Elhawary | |||
| Part Four: Conclusions | |||
| 10. Charting the way: Integrating land issues in humanitarian action | |||
| Sara Pantuliano | |||
| Back Matter (Index) |
Sara Pantuliano Sara Pantuliano is a Research Fellow and Programme Leader in the Humanitarian Policy Group of the Overseas Development Institute, UK.
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