Land and Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention
Publisher: USAID
Author(s): David Bledsoe and Michael Brown
Date: 2005
Topics: Economic Recovery, Livelihoods, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programming, Renewable Resources
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide a practical introduction to the relationship between land and violent conflict. The relationship is stark, whether we are talking about how land issues function as causal or aggravating factors in conflict, or whether we are thinking about land-related issues that arise in post-conflict settings. The toolkit is also designed to familiarize practitioners with a range of relevant programmatic interventions and to sensitize officers to the fact that development activities, including non-land related interventions, such as infrastructure projects and the exploitation of underground resources, can inadvertently cause land conflicts to erupt.