A Digital Advance for Housing, Land and Property Restitution in War-Affected States: Leveraging Smart Migration

IF 0.6 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Stability-International Journal of Security and Development Pub Date : 2017-10-27 DOI:10.5334/STA.562

J. Unruh, E. Frank, M. Pritchard

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Abstract

The large-scale restitution of housing, land and property (HLP) for those dislocated due to armed conflict has significant repercussions for the prospect of return, recovery and durable peace. Failure to adequately engage in restitution and other remedies for displaced populations has demonstrated that the grievances generated usually do not abate, but instead grow, including over generations, to produce subsequent problems, including armed conflict. While advances in transitional justice have supported the development of mass claims processes for HLP in war-affected countries, the current magnitude and complexity of forced dislocation is beyond the ability of conventional techniques to manage in an effective and timely way. This article argues that the current approach for handling massive numbers of HLP claims in postwar scenarios needs a critical upgrade; and describes what such an upgrade could comprise with a set of advanced techniques. These techniques focus on the issues of time, the size and complexity of the problem, new spatial technologies, and the now much greater agency possessed by displaced populations made possible by mobile digital technologies.

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受战争影响国家住房、土地和财产归还的数字化进步:利用智能移民

大规模恢复因武装冲突而流离失所者的住房、土地和财产对返回、恢复和持久和平的前景产生重大影响。未能充分参与对流离失所人口的归还和其他补救措施表明，所产生的不满通常不会减少，反而会增加，包括几代人，从而产生后续问题，包括武装冲突。虽然过渡时期司法方面的进展支持在受战争影响的国家为难民流离失所者制定大规模索赔程序，但目前被迫流离失所的规模和复杂性超出了传统技术有效和及时管理的能力。本文认为，当前处理战后情景中大量HLP索赔的方法需要进行重大升级;并描述了这种升级可能包括一系列先进技术。这些技术侧重于时间问题、问题的规模和复杂性、新的空间技术，以及移动数字技术使流离失所人口拥有的更大的代理权。

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Stability-International Journal of Security and Development INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

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3.40

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11 weeks

期刊介绍： Stability: International Journal of Security & Development is a fundamentally new kind of journal. Open-access, it publishes research quickly and free of charge in order to have a maximal impact upon policy and practice communities. It fills a crucial niche. Despite the allocation of significant policy attention and financial resources to a perceived relationship between development assistance, security and stability, a solid evidence base is still lacking. Research in this area, while growing rapidly, is scattered across journals focused upon broader topics such as international development, international relations and security studies. Accordingly, Stability''s objective is to: Foster an accessible and rigorous evidence base, clearly communicated and widely disseminated, to guide future thinking, policymaking and practice concerning communities and states experiencing widespread violence and conflict. The journal will accept submissions from a wide variety of disciplines, including development studies, international relations, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology, psychology and history, among others. In addition to focusing upon large-scale armed conflict and insurgencies, Stability will address the challenge posed by local and regional violence within ostensibly stable settings such as Mexico, Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and elsewhere.