Conflict and Housing, Land and Property Rights

• Research unit: PHRD
• Project number: 531599

Key words (English)

Land Right, Property Right

Short description (English)

Displacement Solutions (DS) works to empower displaced people and refugees to exercise their right to return and have restored to them their original homes, lands and properties. DS works together with and on behalf of people who have been displaced not only by conflict, forced eviction or other human rights abuses, but also natural disaster, climate change or other circumstances beyond their control. DS assists in finding alternative solutions such as compensation or resettlement if this is their wish.

Project aims (English)

Who Will Take the Lead on Post-Conflict HLP Issues?1

Scott Leckie

Abstract: Housing, land and property (HLP) rights issues are invariably affected by conflict and

in the various steps to build post-conflict peace. As ubiquitous as they may be as issues of war,

however, HLP rights still do not enjoy the benefits of a lead agency within the UN system which

is willing and able to take coordinating responsibilities for securing these rights within broader

peacebuilding objectives. While considerable progress has been made in terms of programming

and policy, peacebuilding exercises on HLP issues tend to be ad hoc, incomplete and all to often

ineffectual in achieving their avowed aims. This chapter looks at these issues and proposes both

an agency that might be most well-suited within the UN system to be the lead agency for HLP

rights, as well as exploring the basic HLP policy infrastructure that should be in place within all

post-conflict societies.

Publications / Results (English)

Related documents

• Who Will Take the Lead on Post-Conflict HLP Issues [PDF] 129 kB