By Scott Leckie
For greater than sixty years, the blue helmets of the United international locations peacekeeping missions have come to represent either the promise and the fragility of the UN. notwithstanding beset with unresolved conflicts, underfunded, and perpetually pressured with sentiments of over-expectation, UN peace operations have made a distinction with their 'peacebuilding' tasks. whereas peacebuilding has been widely analysed and critiqued, the UN's position in addressing and ameliorating housing, land, and estate rights demanding situations has now not. This quantity seeks to fill the void via interpreting the UN's adventure grappling with the significant and inevitable housing, land, and estate rights crises that emerge in all nations in the course of and after clash. via research of UN peace missions in Burundi, Cambodia, Iraq, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan and in different places, this quantity offers a different array of views on what the UN has performed correct, what it has performed incorrect, and what it may do sooner or later.
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39–41. , 281. 36 Rhodri C. Williams The administration of housing, land, and natural resources in the PRK quickly came to be mediated by the tendency of the regime to delegate power to the local level. The first such developments came with regard to agricultural land. 68 The PRK authorities responded by backing away from collectivization, if not nationalization. ’’72 In other words, even at a time when land still had no formal market value, a precedent for siphoning off attractive parcels into local patronage networks had already been established.
However, if any message emerges from all the analyses that follow, it is simply that far too often too little has been done to address these vital concerns. This is not to say, of course, that conspiracies of inaction or other nefarious forces are at work in keeping HLP issues so frequently off the agendas of the DPKO, DPA, the Peacebuilding Commission, and other 16 Scott Leckie entities intimately involved in the design and implementation of peace operations. Rather, it is far more likely that questions of capacity and fears of complexity may be the primary reasons lying behind the long-term reluctance of the UN to grapple head-on with the HLP challenges that face each and every country emerging from conflict.
94-5. , 273. See, for instance, John C. Brown, ‘‘Evolution of a Farming Village over 35 years,’’ Phnom Penh Post (23 September 1994). Supra, note 19, 273. ’’ Supra, note 19, 189. , 190. Specifically, the regime felt itself obligated, first, to tax rather than suppress the private sector, and second, to delegate tax collection to local officials who had the capacity to undertake this task but quickly became accustomed to keeping much of the take for themselves. Stability, Justice, and Rights in the Wake of the Cold War 37 without regard for the claims of owners and users displaced during the prior years of turbulence.