8. Land rights in Angola: Poverty and plenty

Foley, Conor

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“…Presently, forced evictions in Angola have become the most volatile political issue in the country--'explosive' by some accounts (Economist 2011)--with violence and heavy handedness by state security forces common. The eviction process has destroyed houses and crops without compensation (Foley 2007). Human Rights Watch notes that such evictions are in many cases carried out contrary to both Angolan and international law (HRW 2007; also Kothari 2006).…”

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Eviction policy in postwar Angola

Unruh

2012

Land Use Policy

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Angola's four decades of civil war continue to have a profound effect on the country's recovery and development. While the end to the war in 2002 and the subsequent extraction of natural resources has fueled the country's economic recovery for a minority, for the majority recovery depends less on natural resource extraction than it does on acquiring and maintaining secure access to land and property upon which viable livelihoods can be rebuilt. However the current large scale evictions in urban and peri-urban areas of the country and the resulting acute tenure insecurity is significantly worrying, and is the single most acute land rights, land policy, and political problem in the country. Aspects of the country's constitution and the development of the postwar land law facilitate eviction, and an important opportunity to upgrade postwar informal land rights has been missed. Land and property rights problems have played a significant role in the country's armed conflicts and social problems, and current trends are constructing a difficult future.

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Eviction policy in postwar Angola

Unruh

2012

Land Use Policy

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“…In Sudan, the appropriation of peri-urban lands by both Northern and Southern militaries, continued promotion of nomad settlement on the lands of cultivator communities and the extension rather than restitution of commercial estates are all provoking resistance (Pantuliano et al, 2007(Pantuliano et al, , 2008. Slum evictions and reallocations of vast swathes of valuable arable land to non-local investors are having the same effect in Angola (Foley, 2007).…”

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3. Tackling land tenure in the emergency to development transition in post-conflict states: From restitution to reform

Wily¹

2009

Uncharted Territory

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This chapter provides an overview of the land and property issues confronting postconfl ict administrations. Its main argument is that the focus of the humanitarian sector upon restitution of property lost during war is too narrow and potentially obstructive to resolve given that in more and more cases thorough reform of prewar land and property relations is required in order to keep and sustain peace. This is especially so as most wars today are civil wars and largely confi ned to agrarian states, where access to land is critical for the survival of most of the population, and post-colonial or post-feudal deprivation of land rights a common reality. The author concludes with practical suggestions for focusing action by the assisting humanitarian and reconstruction sector.

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“…This can lead an actor to choose an option that is not the most-preferred one but that is assumed to produce the most sustainable outcome or is least likely to have negative consequences for that actor or third parties. 3 The institutional framework (rules and norms) also structures the nature of interactions between different actors. The Figure 1 below gives a schematic overview of the elements of Actor Centered Institutionalism.…”

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“…This is the case where displaced people migrate to areas where resources are scarce and tenure rights are insecure. In other instances, the return of people to their places of origin causes conflicts with the current occupants [3]. Limited capacities of state actors or competing (power) interests frequently exacerbate such conflicts.…”

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Land Governance in Post-Conflict Settings: Interrogating Decision-Making by International Actors

Betge¹

2019

Land

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Humanitarian and development organizations working in conflict-affected settings have a particular responsibility to do no harm and contribute to the wellbeing of the population without bias. The highly complex, politicized realities of work in conflict- and post-conflict settings often require quick, pragmatic and results-oriented decisions, the foundations of which remain frequently implicit. Such decisions might follow an intrinsic logic or situational pragmatism rather than intensive deliberation. This paper reflects on the realities of working on land governance in post-conflict settings shaped by migration, ethnic division, power struggles and limited statehood. Using case examples from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Burundi, this paper reflects on the drivers of decisions around land governance in such contexts in a structured, theoretically informed way. Drawing on the author’s own experience with supporting land rights work and utilizing Giddens’ concept of the Duality of Structure, this article provides an analysis of actors and structures that sheds light on the factors that affect the decision-making of practitioners relating to land rights in post-conflict areas of limited statehood.

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8. Land rights in Angola: Poverty and plenty

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Eviction policy in postwar Angola

Eviction policy in postwar Angola

3. Tackling land tenure in the emergency to development transition in post-conflict states: From restitution to reform

Land Governance in Post-Conflict Settings: Interrogating Decision-Making by International Actors

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