Conflict and Housing, Land and Property Rights: A Handbook On Issues, Frameworks And Solutions - Softcover

Leckie, Scott

 
9781107636040: Conflict and Housing, Land and Property Rights: A Handbook On Issues, Frameworks And Solutions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1107636043 ISBN 13: 9781107636040
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This book analyses the ubiquitous housing, land and property challenges present in all conflict and post-conflict settings.

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About the Authors

Scott Leckie is the Founder and Director of Displacement Solutions, an organization dedicated to resolving cases of forced displacement throughout the world. He also recently founded and directs the charitable organization Oneness World that supports small research and other projects promoting global citizenship and peaceful and evolutionary ways of building a post-nation-state world. He is also the founder of the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), an organization he headed from 1991 to 2007. Leckie has written and/or edited nine books and more than 175 articles and reports on issues including housing rights; economic, social and cultural rights; forced evictions; the right to housing and property restitution for refugees and internally displaced persons; and other human rights themes.

Chris Huggins is an academic and researcher/activist specializing in the relationships between land rights, violent conflict and post-conflict development, particularly in Africa. He spent the last decade working in Eastern and Central Africa for the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), an intergovernmental organization, and consulting with several major non-governmental organizations, including the Africa Peace Forum, Associates for Rural Development (ARD), CARE International, the Centre for Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), Displacement Solutions, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Forest People's Programme, Human Rights Watch and the Interchurch Organization for Development Co-operation (ICCO), among many others.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107636043
ISBN 13 
9781107636040
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
312