Housing Land and Property Rights in Post-Conflict United Nations and Other Peace Operations

For more than sixty years the blue helmets of the United Nations peacekeeping missions have come to symbolize both the promise and the fragility of the UN. Though beset with unresolved conflicts underfunded and invariably burdened with sentiments of over-expectation UN peace operations have made a difference with their peacebuilding initiatives. While peacebuilding has been extensively analysed and critiqued the UNs role in addressing and ameliorating housing land and property rights challenges has not. This volume seeks to fill the void by examining the UNs experience grappling with the immense and inevitable housing land and property rights crises that emerge in all countries during and after conflict. Through analysis of UN peace missions in Burundi Cambodia Iraq Kosovo Rwanda Sudan and elsewhere this volume provides a unique array of perspectives on what the UN has done right what it has done wrong and what it should do in the future.