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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Scott Leckie , Chris HugginsPublisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9781107636040ISBN 10: 1107636043 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 19 September 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction to the issues - HLP rights and sustainable peace; 2. The international HLP rights normative framework; 3. Displacement, conflict and HLP rights; 4. HLP restitution rights: theory, law and concepts; 5. Restitution mechanisms and institutional frameworks; 6. United Nations and other peace operations and HLP rights; 7. Protracted displacement and political obstacles to the protection of HLP rights; 8. Emerging conceptual issues; 9. Improving international responses to HLP rights and conflict.ReviewsAuthor InformationScott 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |