Conflict and Housing, Land, and Property Rights: A Handbook on Issues, Frameworks, and Solutions by Scott Leckie and Chris Huggins

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The images of intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and state governments providing food, medicine, and clean water to conflict and post-conflict regions of the world have appeared on North American and Western European television news broadcasts since the completion of the Second World War. During the second half of the twentieth century, these images represented what it meant to provide aid to a region, often outside of North America and Western Europe, in need of assistance. However, it has become clear that providing conflict and post-conflict regions with food, medicine, and clean water is only a short-term solution for handling economic, racial, political, and ethnic challenges. Experts such as Scott Leckie and Chris Huggins have begun to argue that the appropriate management of housing, land, and property (HLP) rights in conflict and post-conflict settings are “decisive in determining the extent to which peace is sustained” (1). …