Land administration for post-conflict contexts

Conflict, land, and property meet each other at every point in the conflict cycle, as experienced in many countries (Guterras 2009). A critical gap relating to the land component was identified in 2005 (OCHA 2005). Awareness on the importance of addressing housing, land, and property (HLP) in post-conflict contexts has increased since then, in both literature and practice. Despite this heightened awareness, knowledge of the nature of these problems and potential ways to address them is limited when it comes to state building (Kato 2014). More specifically, a knowledge gap identified in the theory relates to the potential that land administration has within the post-conflict state building process (Todorovski et al. 2012).