THE PROPERTY RIGHTS OF REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONSPDF电子书下载

Introduction 1

Protracted displacements and the quest for durable solutions 2

Durable solutions and the protection of housing and property rights 3

1 The development of the right to return to one's home of origin 9

Traditional limits of the right of return at international law 11

Enunciation of the right to return to one's home of origin 14

Instruments ending conflicts 15

International and regional case law 16

United Nations 'soft law' developments 21

Customary international law 29

Adwcacy 32

Conclusion 33

2 Modern experiences with post-conflict restitution and return 43

Israel/Palestine 48

Cyprus 51

Cambodia 54

Mozambique 55

Tajikistan 57

Rwanda 58

Guatemala 60

Bosnia-Herzegovina 61

Domestic property rights legislation 62

An internationalized commission 63

Restitution and return 64

Kosovo 65

Timor-Leste 69

Afghanistan 71

Iraq 73

Georgia/South Ossetia 75

Legislative frameworks on IDPs 76

Use of the courts to regain pre-conflict property 78

Law on Restitution 78

Conclusion 82

3 Restitution and return 'home' 98

Return as the preferred durable solution 100

Establishing the restitution/return nexus 103

The success of restitution and the failure of return 104

Return and the meaning of 'home' 108

Nuancing understandings of return and home 109

Balancing practical considerations and dreams of home 110

Deconstructing the house as home 115

De facto durable solutions following restitution 118

Sale/exchange of restituted property 118

Transnational uses of restituted property 121

Conclusion: re-establishing the restitution/return nexus? 123

4 Local integration and the regularization of collective centre space 135

Local integration as acceptable durable solution 136

Host community as home 136

Policy implications for local integration (and resettlement) 138

Housing and property rights and local integration 139

Shelter arrangements for RDPs during displacement 140

Protecting housing and property rights in the host community 142

Regularizing rights in collective centre space 145

Collective centre as home 146

Recognizing property rights in the collective centre 147

The (in)sufficiency ofinformal ownership 151

The use of non-ownership tenures 153

Conclusion 157

5 Compensation and regularizing secondary occupation 167

Shifting homes, changing 'social fabric' and the secondary occupier 168

Lessons from the 'ordinary' law of property 173

The legal meaning of 'home' 173

Adverse possession/squatters' rights 176

Expropriation 182

Restitution in transitional states 186

Restitution in Eastern Europe/former Soviet Union 186

Restitution in South Africa 189

Determining adequate compensation 192

Conclusion 194

Conclusion 206

Bibliography 211

In dex 251