Dr. Jon Unruh - Postwar Land Tenure and Legal Pluralism
Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend the fifth presentation of the Fall 2010 Nicholas Institute and UPEP Environmental Institutions Seminar Series. Our speaker will be Jon Unruh, Associate Professor of Human Geography and International Development at McGill University.
| When |
Nov 05, 2010 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am |
|---|---|
| Where | LSRC A148 |
| Contact Name | Erika Weinthal |
| Contact Phone | (919) 613-8080 |
Land tenure has proven to be one of the most difficult issues in postwar settings. The disintegration of land rights institutions during armed conflict, and yet the importance of territory land and property to the conduct of conflict presents particular dilemmas for a peace process. Understanding what happens to land tenure as a set of social relations during and subsequent to armed conflict, particularly civil conflict, is important to the derivation of useful tools for managing tenure issues in a peace process. This presentation examines the development of multiple, informal 'normative orders' regarding land tenure during armed conflict and how these are brought together in a problematic fashion after war. Such problems are especially acute after war because an end to hostilities drives land issues to the fore for large numbers of people over a short time frame. There are nevertheless several approaches useful for using conflict driven legal pluralism in the recovery of tenure systems.
Questions or comments? Please contact Erika Weinthal, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment.
