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Summary
Summary
For more than sixty years, the blue helmets of the United Nations peacekeeping missions have come to symbolize both the promise and the fragility of the UN. Though beset with unresolved conflicts, underfunded, and invariably burdened with sentiments of over-expectation, UN peace operations have made a difference with their 'peacebuilding' initiatives. While peacebuilding has been extensively analysed and critiqued, the UN's role in addressing and ameliorating housing, land, and property rights challenges has not. This volume seeks to fill the void by examining the UN's experience grappling with the immense and inevitable housing, land, and property rights crises that emerge in all countries during and after conflict. Through analysis of UN peace missions in Burundi, Cambodia, Iraq, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan and elsewhere, this volume provides a unique array of perspectives on what the UN has done right, what it has done wrong, and what it should do in the future.
Author Notes
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 |
| I Introduction | |
| 1 United Nations Peace Operations and Housing, Land, and Property Rights in Post-Conflict Settings: From Neglect to Tentative Embrace | p. 3 |
| II Case Studies | |
| 2 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 |
| 3 The Response of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo to Address Property Rights Challenges | p. 61 |
| 4 Balancing Rights and Norms: Property Programming in East Timor, the Solomon Islands, and Bougainville | p. 103 |
| 5 Housing, Land, and Property Restitution Rights in Afghanistan | p. 136 |
| 6 Peacekeeping and HLP Rights in the Great Lakes Region of Africa: Burundi, Rwanda, and DR Congo | p. 179 |
| 7 The Trouble with Iraq: Lessons from the Field on the Development of a Property Restitution System in "Post"-Conflict Circumstances | p. 220 |
| 8 Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement: An Opportunity for Coherently Addressing Housing, Land, and Property Issues? | p. 260 |
| 9 The Impacts of UN Peace Operations on Local Housing Markets | p. 310 |
| III Conclusions | |
| 10 Possible Components of a Unified Global Policy on Housing, Land, and Property Rights in UN Peace Operations | p. 329 |
| Index | p. 357 |
