Post by post:
- 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
- Legal precedents for fighting dispossession of land – the Community Land Rights CaseBase
- How quickly a year goes when the international architecture is coming down around your ears
- Article on HLP rights and durable solutions in GPC Digest
- TN mellows out at five
- New book review on “the Åland example”: Balancing engagement and exclusion in autonomy regimes
- Rest in peace Mohamed Al-Sweii
- “Endorois decision” update – Kenyan task force appointed
- Upcoming discussion of restitution at Stockholm University
- “The Endorois decision” – Four years on, the Endorois still await action by the Government of Kenya
- Scotland chooses a bird in the hand
- Controversial World Bank safeguard policies rewrite goes to consultations
- Petition against watering down of World Bank safeguard policies
- Happy Midsummer’s Eve – and World Refugee Day
- International Humanitarian Law more clear and more debated than ever – updated
- Xenophobes elected to oversee European integration
- The Kosovo Constitutional Court on displaced persons’ property rights: Can mediation ever count as enforcement?
- One Europe?
- What future for reform? Tracking changes in forest tenure since 2002
- Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: The Peace Deal for Mindanao and its lessons for practitioners of environmental peacebuilding
- Land grabs jeopardize peace in Sri Lanka
- Sweden faces up to past discrimination against its Roma minority in a new ‘White Book’
- More cold comfort from Åland in advance of the Crimea referendum
- Guest-posting at Opinio Juris – Åland and Crimea as distant cousins
- Happy International Women’s Day!
- Responsibility to provoke? Aggression, self-determination and the Ukraine crisis
- No region for buffer countries
- Ukraine 2.0, and its still February…
- Kiev, February 2014
- Talks collapse in Geneva, reconciliation blooms in Syria?
- The Bosnia dilemma: What are the implications of the Homs “humanitarian evacuation” in Syria?
- A little more on the rule of law and development debate
- Note to Congress – Please do not force me to give up my US citizenship
- TN turns four!
- Immeasurably important? The development discourse eyes the rule of law
- COHRE archive back online
- Happy Holidays (and on to 2014)
- Chilean court orders compensation for tsunami damages
- Chile and the unfinished business of justice and reparation
- Coping with the realities of climate displacement: The Peninsular Principles
- End of an era
- Land reform in Colombia: One step forward, two steps back
- Upcoming guest posting on the Colombian restitution process
- Global knowledge platform for environmental peacebuilding
- Risk calculation and blood sugar – Can CSR arguments get a handle on the global land-rush?
- Bosnia 2013 – a tale of two pictures
- Reparations for Chile’s exiles: upcoming guest-post on the Inter-American Court decision in García Lucero
- Will the World Bank safeguard human rights in its new high-risk strategy?
- New report on rule of law assistance in constitution building processes
- Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: The durability of Middle Eastern Civil Codes and durable solutions to displacement
- The European race to the bottom on the Roma
- Demonize the messenger – UN Housing Rapporteur accused of witchcraft
- Chilean judiciary apologizes
- Reconciliation, or getting over losing to win in the Balkans
- Syria is hemmorrhaging
- Beware philosophers bearing simple answers – Sharia and democracy
- The World Bank adopts sound principles on land, but HRW points out gaps in practice
- Cleaning up the maps? Portents of unilateral partition in Syria
- Democracy as a process
- Svaka čast Croatia
- Forced urbanization in China moves from practice to policy
- If it’s broke, destroy it? The partition debate arrives in Syria
- Global conflict-induced displacement at highest level since 1994
- Bosnia helps itself to a slice of Spring
- A problem from hell for the 2010s
- What can indigenous peoples learn from the Åland Islands land acquisition regime?
- The Yugoslavia Tribunal produces a new conviction and more confusion
- Land deal between Government and FARC in Colombia
- A happy ending for Eurovision?
- Breaking news – Dissident arrests, police abuse and mass evictions in downtown Malmö by Swedish Eurovision hosts
- New report analyses the rule of law in Libya (as the transitional vetting debate tests it)
- Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Customary governance, property rights, and state building in Afghanistan
- That 1990s feeling, or how conflict-related internal displacement never really went away
- Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: A new global standard for land administration
- Safeguarding land rights: An opportunity for the World Bank to lead
- Announcing a new book and guest posts on post-conflict land management and peacebuilding
- Defining communities in Colombia: the Afro-descendant communities of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó and communal land rights
- The World Bank must stop underwriting human rights abuses in Ethiopia
- Upcoming guest posting on the World Bank and ‘villageization’ in Ethiopia
- The Human Rights Advisory Panel holds the UN in Kosovo responsible for failing to investigate forced disappearances – too little, too late?
- We have met the enemy and it is We (the Peoples)
- The fog of war crimes prosecution – the ICTY Appeals Chamber acquits Perišić
- Politics as land disputes by other means? Kenya braces itself for elections (updated)
- Terra Nullius no more – Australia approaches constitutional recognition of its indigenous population
- Report on property issues and displacement in Libya for UNHCR
- TN turns three!
- Franz von Benda-Beckmann
- How I spent my Christmas break
- Happy Holidays from TN
- Alternative history: The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Eurafrique!
- Preventing displacement by recognizing the land rights of indigenous peoples and rural communities
- Kyrgyzstan cracks down on the ICG in Osh
- Two weeks after Gotovina, the ICTY acquits Haradinaj defendants
- Kyrgyzstan property issues update, part 2 – Unen-durable Solutions
- Kyrgyzstan property issues update, part 1 – Who’s afraid of the big bad master plan? Rebuilding Osh’s mahallahs in brick
- Draft Land Rights Policy Statement by the Land Commission of Liberia
- Post-conflict property restitution in Kosovo: A continuing challenge
- Another UN peacekeeping meltdown in the make … but who’s got time?
- Tweeting, for my sins
- Breaking news – Gotovina and Markač convictions overturned (UPDATED)
- Why land matters for mine action
- Advanced course on response to internal displacement
- Upcoming guest postings and recent HLP resources
- The Kampala Convention on internal displacement in Africa: What does it mean for housing, land and property restitution?
- Beyond restitution: New book explores property rights and durable solutions for the displaced
- UN High-Level RoL meeting to take up HLP issues … maybe
- Doing justice for refugees and IDPs? Confronting displacement through transitional justice
- Can you be internally displaced for twenty years? Housing issues and protracted displacement in Azerbaijan
- Corporate social responsibility in a changing world: Targeting conflict resource exploitation
- Addressing injustice and managing expectations: Displacement and transitional justice discourses in Northern Uganda
- Depravity
- European restitution in a nutshell
- Protection in the past tense: New book on displacement and transitional justice explores the role of restitution
- Announcement – Call for cases related to World Bank resettlement
- Is the European Commission sweet on land grabbing? Trade benefits, sugarcane concessions and dispossession in Cambodia – UPDATED
- Empowering communities to document and protect their land claims: A solution to the global land grab?
- Mainstreaming IDP principles in capacity building efforts: A chance missed in Kosovo
- Say it with a resolution: The UN marks two decades of work on internal displacement as new challenges emerge
- Libya goes to the polls
- Week in links – Week 27/2012 – grab some sugar (or water) with your land?
- Cambodia housing rights activists released from prison
- TN stays TN – and wishes a happy Summer break
- Blood, soil and cinnamon buns
- Whats in a name? TN reconsidered…
- Land, property and displacement in post-revolution Libya
- What Rights? Comparing developing countries’ national legislation on community forest tenure rights
- The Onion on Corporate Social Responsibility Approaches
- The twentieth anniversary of Mabo (and the reason I need to change the name of this blog)
- Annual double-taxation-without-representation time rolls around for US citizens abroad
- YouTube human rights channel, Cambodia and an upcoming guest posting by Natalie Bugalski
- Back to the tyranny of the majority in Bolivia’s TIPNIS dispute
- World Bank urged to stand firm on land-related rights violations in Cambodia
- New RRI report (and upcoming guest post) on community land rights in tropical forests
- Cambodian mothers and grandmothers behind bars after facing off the most powerful men in the region: Will the World Bank stand by them?
- Norwegian Refugee Council releases new Housing, Land and Property training course
- Europe, stop voting now! (The Eurovision contest returns to a democracy)
- Few signs of Spring in Baku (and less in Strasbourg) in the leadup to a tainted Eurovision final
- Minority self-determination in China and the demolition of Kashgar
- In search of a duty-bearer: No remedy for destruction of property during Kosovo’s international supervision
- FAO global guidelines on tenure of land, forests and fisheries adopted
- Redress without fault? UN to promote ‘automatic’ state reparations for terrorist attacks
- Sustainable but inconvenient – Two more folkways slide closer to the edge
- From shelter to housing: New NRC report on tenure security and displacement
- The Economist on land and natural resources in Southeast Asia
- Vivianna Nyroos
- Warming up for Eurovision in Baku
- R.I.P. COHRE?
- Online books on land law in Africa
- Foreign Affairs on Syria and the Alawites
- Local governance in Somalia – New emperor in old clothes?
- The Arab Spring – updated challenges and outdated responses
- Guest posting announcements and updates – Focus on Somalia, Colombia, Kosovo, Bolivia and Ecuador
- Somebody pinch me
- Bosnia twenty years on
- An inconvenient forum: Thoughts on the Chevron-Ecuador Case
- Nicholas Fromherz to guest-post on the Chevron-Ecuador case
- Costing stability against freedom: The minority dilemma in Syria and Iraq
- Addressing systemic obstacles to restitution in Kosovo: Legal aid as a fact finding tool
- Back to the Balkans – upcoming guest postings on restitution issues in Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo
- Musicians abused in Eurovision host-city
- The World Bank on ‘sleaze timber’
- Eurovision in Baku: Should the European Broadcasting Union care about human rights?
- FAO Voluntary Guidelines on land, fisheries and forestry governance near approval
- Euroviction: Azerbaijan demolishes homes for a song (contest)
- Pinheiro and the political philosophers: Achieving justice through post-conflict property restitution
- Look before you legislate? The challenges facing restitution in Libya
- The ADB involuntary resettlement policy: Fifteen years on, the poorest still bear the brunt of development
- From National Responsibility to Response – Part II: IDPs’ Housing, Land and Property Rights
- From National Responsibility to Response – Part I: General Conclusions on IDP Protection
- Waking from a dream in Bolivia: The TIPNIS victory that never was
- Upcoming guest postings by the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement
- Nicholas Fromherz to guest post on the Bolivia TIPNIS debate
- New report on railway rehabilitation and displacement in Cambodia – Natalie Bugalski to guest-post
- Humanitarian spacebook
- TN turns two!
- Investment-related conflict in South Sudan: contested rights and the power of information
- New report on the ‘global land grab’ – and guest-posting by David Deng
- A roundup of international law debates
- Someday, none of this will be yours: the predatory state eyes ‘public’ land
- Promoting equity through improved urban state land governance
- Mixed signals on citizenship
- Proposals to allow private ownership of First Nations’ land spur debate in Canada
- Judicial oversight and the end of displacement in Colombia
- Upcoming TN guest-postings in early 2012
- A year in the life of a blog – 2011
- Happy Holidays!
- The Lisbon Treaty comes home to roost in Western Sahara
- Consultancy on the HLP rights of internally displaced women in Iraq
- Week in links – Week 50/2011 – Durban, Wukan, Tawergha, Hoima
- Land issues at the core of ethnic violence and internal displacement in north-east India
- Redressing the ‘Endorois Case’ violations or replicating them?
- Week in links – Week 49/2011
- Back to business as usual in Cambodia?
- Week in links – Week 48/2011
- We are here! post-Thanksgiving musings on minority conflicts and political participation
- Understanding the outcomes of customary justice: implications for land practitioners
- Guest-posting by Erica Harper on new IDLO customary justice books
- Dark Lord of the Sith joins the global land rush
- New book on high value natural resources and peace building
- Forced resettlement of Bedouins
- Briefing on property issues in southern Kyrgyzstan
- Week in links – week 44/2011 – restitution in Libya, privatization in Cuba, assimilation in Israel
- Week in links – week 43/2011
- Sweeter the second time around? Self-determination gets another chance
- NRC consultancy on customary land dispute resolution in South Sudan
- Week in links – week 42/2011: land disputes in Bolivia, India, Kyrgyzstan and the UK
- When do home and property part ways? New paper on the ECHR and the Cyprus property question
- Innovations in forced eviction series #3: China
- More Arab than Spring?
- Bolivia road protests continue
- Avoiding conflict through early and effective management of land disputes
- Upcoming guest posts: (1) post-disaster rights to housing, and (2) land in conflict prevention
- Serbia masters the difference between restitution and restitution
- The ‘grin nervously’ school of large-scale land dispute management
- Call for papers – World Bank 2012 Conference on Land and Poverty
- Oxfam on the global land rush – UPDATED
- Week in links – Week 37/2011: Palestinian statehood and other matters
- Sweden versus social and economic human rights? Part 2: The right to water
- USIP HLP course and NRC HLP position (for francophones)
- The view from Sarajevo, 12 September 2001
- Sweden versus social and economic human rights? Part 1: Benchmarking human rights
- Sweden versus social and economic human rights … what gives?
- Web-based education tool aims to mainstream land rights into international development thinking
- Week in Links – Week 33/2011: Ethnic engineering in Osh, privatization in Havana
- Cambodia: Resolution of Boeung Kak Lake dispute in sight
- Breaking news: World Bank funding to Cambodia frozen over forced evictions in Phnom Penh
- Introducing the Journal of Internal Displacement
- Week in links – Week 30/2011
- IFRC meeting on post-disaster shelter issues
- Good morning South Sudan
- Week in links – Week 24/2011: murder in Colombia, biofuels in Sierra Leone
- Housing, land and property issues obstruct integration of IDPs in protracted displacement
- Colombia’s Victims’ Law enacted – Last stand or new beginning for programmatic property restitution?
- New report on protracted internal displacement – Nadine Walicki to guest post on HLP issues and local integration
- Note from the field: Colombia’s new Victims’ Law in context
- Week in links – Week 22/2011
- Colombia passes a Victim’s Law promising land restitution and broader redress
- Squatters, IDPs or both? Untangling urban displacement in Liberia
- Week in links – Week 21/2011
- With me or against us? The Economist mourns the passing of the rugged individual right
- Week in links – Week 19/2011
- How do you steer a land rush?
- They know the solution – Land purchase programs for rural women in India
- Week in links – Week 18/2011
- Kyrgyzstan Inquiry Commission – Osh riots resulted in crimes against humanity
- Week in links – week 17/2011
- What’s in a border?
- Next steps in Cambodia
- Yugoslavia Tribunal issues Gotovina judgment – discriminatory property laws deemed persecution
- Week in links – week 15/2011
- Managing pastureland in Central Asia: the importance of locally legitimate law reform
- Europe and Central Asia housing forum
- Week in links – week 12/2011
- Land in Liberia
- World Bank land conference next month
- Week in links – week 10/2011
- World Bank Management Report on Cambodia acknowledges past mistakes and future challenges
- Breaking news: World Bank Board to act on Cambodia report
- The week in links – week 09/2011
- Clearing the way forward: mine action and post-conflict land issues
- Another dimension of the Arab unrest: Its the land, stupid
- Available land? The Economist special report on global food security
- Libya on the edge
- ‘Bosnia Remade’ and beyond
- Bosnia update: political crisis, partition proposals and property claims
- Land, power and identity in complex cross-border areas: Eastern DRC
- Bridging the scholar-practitioner gap with dialogue: Megan J. Ballard responds to Massimo Moratti
- The Onion on Egypt
- Week in Links – Week 06/2011: Food prices, injustice and Egypt
- Happy Birthday TN!
- Evictions and cookie cutter approaches to restitution: a response to Megan J. Ballard
- Regional advocacy on the UN human rights mapping exercise in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Upcoming guest-postings on Bosnia by Massimo Moratti and Gerard Toal
- Upcoming guest-postings on Democratic Republic of Congo by Chris Huggins and Shane Quinn
- We interrupt the post-9/11 world order to bring you Egypt
- FAO forum on on land tenure and international investments in agriculture
- Jon Unruh to guest-post on new guidelines on land rights and demining
- Week in links – Week 3/2011
- Choosing in the absence of choice: Protracted displacement and integration
- Week in links – Week 2/2011
- Revisiting uti possidetis: Is Southern Sudan’s referendum scarier if it succeeds?
- Week in links – Week 1/2011
- Tracking aid in Cambodia: Monitoring the resettlement impacts of the Railways Rehabilitation Project
- Looking forward to 2011!
- Three articles on indigenous land rights issues
- Week in links – Week 46/2010
- The Pinheiro Principles take a licking (and keep on ticking?)
- Reminder – 2nd USIP Course on ‘Land, Property and Conflict’
- IDMC report: Colombia restitution bill represents significant progress but concerns remain
- New guest postings – Sebastián Albuja on Colombia restitution & Natalie Bugalski on Cambodia resettlement
- Behind the miner rescue headlines in Chile – a new settlement with the Mapuche
- Week in links – Week 43/2010
- UN Secretary General urged to address Cambodia evictions
- Note on ECtHR Decision in Demopoulos v. Turkey
- The week in links – week 41/2010
- Second USIP ‘Land, Property and Conflict Course’ coming in December
- ODI releases ‘Uncharted Territory’ chapters for free download
- The Body Shop drops Colombian palm oil supplier for alleged land grabbing
- The week in links – week 40/2010
- More on the new Colombia restitution bill
- The week in links – week 39/2010
- Good fences make good neighbors?
- International standards governing evictions from public properties
- The week in links – week 38/2010
- Sebastián Albuja on the Colombia restitution bill
- Restitution gets a fresh chance in Colombia
- The Onion on Afghanistan natural resources
- Endless summer?
- Global online competition – land rights and formalization
- Happy World Humanitarian Day!
- The World Bank struggles with its resettlement policy in Cambodia
- Upcoming guest-posting by Natalie Bugalski on Cambodia
- Guardian preview of World Bank report on the Global Land Rush
- Supreme Court of Brazil to rule over Quilombo communities’ rights to land – arguments for a protective approach
- The gloves come off – the Boeung Kak land dispute and the demise of the LMAP in Cambodia
- Admin note – FAO on Haitian agriculture and upcoming guest-blog on the Quilombos case in Brazil
- Haiti post-quake land issues emerge into the mainstream debate – UPDATED
- TN at five months
- Note on the UN Register of Damage for the Occupied Palestinian Territory
- IOM on Haiti – relocation of vulnerable community thwarted by land dispute
- Haiti reconstruction stalled by land disputes
- Report alleging corporate complicity in Sudan oil abuses hits home in Sweden
- Marcus Cox letter from Kyrgyzstan – Why the referendum should go forward
- Update on Kyrgyzstan
- Risk of another post-Soviet frozen conflict in Kyrgyzstan
- Post-conflict occupation of public property – an important issue raised at USIP’s INPRoL forum
- Land issues and natural disasters: introducing a new guidance for practitioners
- Guest-blogger Esteban Leon to introduce new land and natural disaster guidance
- Dye mon, gen mon – Land and shelter issues remain critical in post-quake Haiti
- Half full or half empty? Reflections on restitution and return in Bosnia by a returned expat
- News from Bosnia – ECtHR Dokic decision and guest blogger Massimo Moratti’s view from the field
- Online events – disaster-proofing housing and the development effect of agriculture
- Pinheiro passed over for Croatian candidate
- Mapuche land claims shake post-quake Chile
- The Terezin Declaration and new guidelines on inter-generational restitution
- The Commercial ‘Land Rush’ – human rights-based versus corporate social responsibility models
- Upcoming guest-postings – Chris Huggins on the ‘Global Land Rush’
- Back from the property frontlines…
- Liberia’s ‘Peace Imperative’ – can it undermine tenure security? An introductory commentary to the NRC report ‘Confusions and Palava’
- Release of NRC report on land disputes in Liberia – and guest blog by author Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque
- UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in session
- US Institute of Peace ‘Land, Property and Conflict’ Course in June
- Overlapping land uses and indigenous groups – two’s a crowd?
- Vulcano refugee sur place…
- The Economist reports on restitution – sort of
- Communication Initiative Network on land rights
- TN at two months
- Followup on Serbian Srebrenica condemnation
- Happy Easter – and good on the Serbian Parliament
- ‘Pinheiro Principles’ drafter in running for top UN human rights spot
- More on the Haiti donor conference
- Leadup to the Haiti donor conference – ‘decentralization’ as central to reconstruction
- A weather eye on Sudan
- Côte d’Ivoire: land reform as a substitute mechanism for restitution to displaced persons
- Back to the land for displaced persons?
- Guest blogger Barbara McCallin on land disputes in Côte d’Ivoire
- Followup on Myanmar
- Haiti early recovery linked to turning the corner in the countryside
- Endorois implementation campaign in Kenya
- Surveyors of the world unite – around a rights-based approach
- Restitution comes to Hamtramck, Michigan
- Iraq updates its approach to former regime-related land and property claims
- Guest blogger Peter van der Auweraert on Iraq restitution
- Staying ahead of the rains in Haiti
- Riots in Jos, Nigeria about land as well as identity
- Is the Myanmar junta preparing to “eat the country” a la Cambodia?
- More to come on property issues in post-election Iraq
- Iraq’s next Parliament to inherit unresolved displacement and housing crises
- Housing, land and property issues central to new Durable Solutions Framework for IDPs
- Haiti update – emergency response criticized as transitional measures get underway
- Deteriorating situation in Chile
- Don’t be shy…
- Earthquake in Chile
- Refugees International on civilian protection: a cautionary note on Blue Helmet HLP interventions
- Human rights are dead! Long live human rights!
- NYT on earthquakes and urbanization
- Haiti’s urban disaster becomes rural?
- FAO Gender and Land Rights Database
- Pastoral peoples’ rights and livelihoods
- The African Commission “Endorois Case” – Toward a Global Doctrine of Customary Tenure?
- Background on the “Endorois Case”
- Chris Huggins on the significance of the “Endorois Decision” for Kenya and East Africa
- CSM on land disputes in Africa
- Looking ahead from Week One
- The PACE ‘Poulsen Principles’ – Can the CoE shake up Europe’s restitution debate?
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