Rights to land resources in post-conflict settings

Rectifying land rights in war-torn settings are among the most daunting challenges of peacebuilding. War-torn land tenure situations are unique settings in their combination of weakened and chaotic formal (statutory) systems, vigorous but very fluid informal tenure activity, along with the presence of political demands regarding land and international actors that have a large interest and influence in the success and direction of any improvement or recovery. While this combination carries risks, it also represents real opportunity for practical and policy reform in the formal and customary land tenure sectors of countries recovering from armed conflict.