Just to say that I prefer this gesture so much more in this context than all the other ones we have gotten used to it in recently.
Terra Nullius
A blog on:
-housing, land and property (HLP) issues
-human rights law and humanitarian policy
-transitional justice and rule of law
-early recovery and development
-self-determination and minority rights.
Open and notorious since February 2010.
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Suggested citation: Author's Name, "Name of Post", TerraNullius Weblog (posted on [date]), available at [URL], accessed on [date].
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Antipodean caveat: The author does not condone imperialist land-grabbing under cover of obscure latin phrases.-
Recent Posts
- Lost in transition – EU financed legal aid programme between Serbia and Kosovo falters
- Sargsyan and Chiragov: The Strasbourg Court takes aim at frozen conflicts?
- Context really is everything
- TN takes a sabbatical at six
- Property issues in Libya: A reminder that the road to sustainable peace still goes via root causes
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Blogs I (aspire to) read
- A view from the cave
- African Arguments
- Al-Bab
- Alejandro Reyes Posada
- Blood and Milk
- CAPRi blog
- Chris Blattman blog
- East Ethnia
- ECHR Blog
- EJIL Talk!
- Failed Architecture
- Florian Bieber blog
- Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
- Fragile States Resource Center
- Greater Surbiton
- Hearabout
- How Matters
- Human Rights Briefs Blog
- IDMC blog
- iLawyer
- Intercross
- International Law Observer
- IntLawGrrls
- Isthmus and Strait
- Justice in Conflict
- Justice Matters in Africa
- Land Matters
- Land of the Blind
- LSESU Terra
- Modern Young Ladies' Guide …
- MRG – Minorities in Focus
- Natural Justice
- Nordic Africa Institute Forum
- NYR Blog
- NYT Borderlines
- Opinio Juris
- Peacefare.net
- PhD Studies in Human Rights
- Politics of poverty
- Property Law Professor Blog (USA)
- Qunfuz
- Reinventing the Rules
- South American Law and Policy
- Springtime of Nations
- Stuff Expat Aid Workers Like
- The Afternoon Map
- The Development Blog
- The Franco-American Flophouse
- Turtle Bay
- WhyDev
HLP Institutions
HLP Online Books
- ACTS – From the Ground Up: Land Rights, Conflict and Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa (2005)
- Displacement Solutions – Housing, Land and Property Rights in Burma: The Current Legal Framework (2010)
- Environmental Peacebuilding, vol. 1 – High Value Natural Resources (2012)
- FICHL – Distributive Justice in Transitions (2010)
- Forum of Federations – Access to Property Rights: Integrating Indigenous communities into the Federal scheme (2010)
- HIC-HLRN, The Land and Its People – Natural Resources in the MENA Region (2015)
- ODI – Uncharted Territory: Land, Conflict and Humanitarian Action (2009)
HLP Resources
- ARD Land Tenure & Property Rights
- Brookings-Bern Project on IDPs
- CGIAR – CAPRi
- Chris Huggins – Land Research
- COHRE HLP Restitution
- Cultural Survival
- Development from Disasters Network
- Displacement Research and Action Network
- Displacement Solutions
- ESCR-Net
- ETOs Consortium
- FAO Land Tenure
- FERN
- FIAN International
- Former ILS – now Thomson Reuters
- Geoffrey Payne – Housing and Urban Development
- Global Initiative for ESC Rights
- Global Land Tool Network
- Grain
- Haki Legal Empowerment Network
- Housing is a Human Right
- Humanitarian Reform
- IDLO Land Law
- IDMC Land, Housing and Property
- IFRC International Disaster Response
- Inclusive Development International
- Indigenous Peoples' Issues & Resources
- Inter-Agency Standing Committee
- International Accountability Project
- International Alliance of Inhabitants
- International Federation of Surveyors
- International Land Coalition
- International Network on Displacement & Resettlement
- International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
- IOM Reparations Programmes
- Land Equity International
- Land Research Action Network
- Landesa (former RDI)
- Landpedia
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- Namati
- Norwegian Refugee Council – HLP
- OHCHR Right to Housing Toolkit
- One Response
- Other Worlds
- Rights and Resources Initiative
- Solutions Alliance
- Survival International
- Terra Institute
- The Global Urbanist
- UN Habitat GCST
- UN HABITAT Land and Housing
- UN Housing Rights Program
- UN Independent Expert on Minorities
- UN RSG on IDPs
- UN Special Rapporteur on Food
- UN Special Rapporteur on Housing
- UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
- UN SR on Indigenous Peoples
- UNDP Crisis Prevention and Recovery
- UNDP Legal Empowerment
- UNHCR Protection
- Univ. of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
- Univ. of Wisconsin Land Tenure Center
- USAID Land Tenure Portal
- Van Vollenhoven Institute
- World Bank Justice for the Poor
- You.Me.We. Disaster Law Center
Int'l law & standards
- "Pinheiro principles" on housing and property restitution for refugees and displaced persons
- African Development Bank Involuntary Resettlement Policy
- Asian Development Bank Involuntary Resettlement Policy
- CEDAW
- CoE Framework Convention on National Minorities
- Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples
- FAO Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
- HLP Checklist for Humanitarian and Resident Coordinators
- IASC Framework for Durable Solutions for IDPs
- ILO Convention No. 169
- Kothari Principles on Development-Based Evictions
- Maastricht Principles on ETOs
- Nairobi Declaration on Women's and Girls' Right to Reparations
- NYU Law School Global Legal Research Tools
- PACE Resolution 1708 (2010) – Property Issues of Displaced Persons
- Refugee Convention and Protocol
- UN Audiovisual Library of International Law
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to … Minorities
- UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
- UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement – Annotations
- UNHCR Exec Comm Conclusion No. 101 (LV) – 2004 – Voluntary Repatriation
- UNHCR Exec Comm Conclusion No. 109 (LXI) – 2009 – Protracted Refugee Situations
- Van Boven/Bassiouni Principles
- World Bank Involuntary Resettlement Policy
- World Bank OP on Indigenous Peoples
My recent work
- 7th Course on the Law of Internal Dislacement
- IDMC Overview on Displacement in Serbia, Dec. 2010
- Incorporating the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into Domestic Law: Issues and Challenges
- Land and Natural Disasters: Guidance for Practitioners
- Post-Conflict Land Guidelines
- Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management Project
- Protecting Internally Displaced Persons: A Manual for Law and Policymakers
- Report on Solving Property Issues of Refugees and Displaced Persons, CoE PACE
- Second Expert Seminar on Protracted Internal Displacement: Is Local Integration a Solution?
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- The fog of war crimes prosecution - the ICTY Appeals Chamber acquits Perišić
- Forced urbanization in China moves from practice to policy
- Upcoming guest postings by the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement
- FAO Voluntary Guidelines on land, fisheries and forestry governance near approval
