Understanding, preventing and solving land conflicts: A practical guide and toolbox | Land Portal

Resource information

Date of publication: 
April 2017
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Pages: 
156
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This guide is intended for practitioners who are confronted with land conflicts in the course of their work or are in a position to prevent them and/or include land governance as one pillar in their policies. It aims to broaden the understanding of the complexity of causes that lead to land conflicts in order to provide for better-targeted ways of addressing such conflicts, and provides a number of tools with which to analyse land disputes. In addition, this guidebook discusses a wide variety of options and tools for settling ongoing land conflicts and for preventing new ones. It adopts a gender-sensitive approach.

Authors and Publishers

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Babette Wehrmann

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