Regularizing Property Rights in Kosovo & Elsewhere
By: with detailed proposals for claims commissions and settlement procedures in East Timor, Georgia, Kosovo and Iraq
Contributors: with a foreword by the United Nations
Publisher: WikU
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Genf, Wien,
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Claims commissions and settlement procedures; International law; Civil law; Kosovo; NGOs; Housing, land and property rights
Description: Throughout most of human history, refugees and others displaced during war or violent conflicts stood little or no chance of ever returning to or re-inhabiting their original homes.
Drawing on his experience with the United Nations and more specifically, as a research fellow with the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) in Geneva, Dr. Hassine analyzed the impact of COHRE as a non-State actor for the international protection of housing, land & property (HLP) rights, on the example of the United Nations’ Housing & Property Directorate/Claims Commission (HPD/CC) in Kosovo and on the institution’s conceptualization, establishment and the subsequent mandate implementation. This publication constitutes a comprehensive compendium of HLP restitution efforts and an important account in terms of HLP law and practice and as such, the future settlement of conflict- and/or climate change-induced claims. COHRE’s initial proposal for a claims settlement procedure in Kosovo as well as other concrete and detailed proposals for claims commissions and tribunals for East Timor, Georgia and Iraq are annexed.