Jon D Unruh
Biographic Data
| ID | 629250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon D Unruh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon D |
| FAMILY NAME | Unruh |
| SIGNATURE | UNRUH J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1693-3062 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Socio-legal instabilities in Ukraine’s wartime Compensation Law for damaged and destroyed residential property
Laws seeking to resolve war-related problems face a significant dilemma. While the legal establishment in a war-affected country drafts laws based on normative approaches suited to peacetime and stable settings, the civilian population pursues crises livelihoods that are markedly unsuited to compliance with or use of such laws. What emerges are socio-legal instabilities that aggravate instead of resolve wartime problems. With a socio-legal examin…
Designing recordkeeping systems for transitional justice and peace: ‘On the Ground’ Experiences and Practices Relating to Organizations Supporting Conflict-Affected Peoples
Case Report: Housing, land and property restitution after wars takes decades: Ukraine can change this
Ukraine's tenurial tangle: Housing, land and property restitution in the Russian war
The severity of the population dislocation and destruction of housing, land and property (HLP) in the Ukraine war has driven efforts for starting reconstruction planning prior to the war's end. This comes with the realization that recovery will entail considerable preparation, including efforts at using seized Russian assets to finance it. Engaging in HLP restitution and compensation will be a primary recovery challenge, with the Ukrainian govern…
Deriving Countermeasures to the Use of Housing, Land and Property Rights as a War-Financing Commodity
Efforts to thwart the trafficking of conflict commodities to finance wars constitute an ongoing endeavour. As specific approaches become effective for certain commodities, belligerent actors pursue new forms of exploitation. The trafficking of housing, land and property (HLP) rights in war zones has now reached a pervasiveness, lucrativeness and severity to warrant significant attention on the derivation of countermeasures. This article proposes …
Housing, Land and Property Rights as War-Financing Commodities: A Typology with Lessons from Darfur, Colombia and Syria
The ongoing use of landscape-based conflict commodities — diamonds and other minerals, timber, wildlife, etc. — to finance wars continues to evolve. The success with which such commodities can be transacted to support militaries, militias and insurgencies has led belligerents to innovate with additional commodities. Housing, land and property (HLP) rights within war zones have belatedly joined the list of conflict commodities that are subject to …
The operational tensions in using compensation to resolve wartime mass property claims
The inclination to pursue monetary compensation to solve difficult large‐scale housing, land, and property (HLP) claims problems resulting from wartime population dislocation as part of peacebuilding efforts has become common in recent years. Certain donors, countries, militaries, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), and policy organisations see compensation as a relatively quick, easy, and conclusive solution to massive numbers of destabilizing…
Housing, Land and Property Rights in Transitional Justice
The Priority Dilemma of Western Sanctions on Syria’s Agricultural Reconstruction
The current relationship between Syria and the West cripples any real prospect for reconstruction. Western sanctions on reconstruction as a political tool aimed at the regime, have wide-ranging negative impacts on the civilian population – while having little hope of political success. For agriculture the repercussions of sanctions on reconstruction are severe, affecting refugee returns, livelihood recovery, food security and stabilization. This …
Rural land tenure resilience in postwar Syria: Implications for restitution and stabilization
Crafting land restitution in Colombia: Optimizing a legal, social and institutional framework
Postconflict Geographies
The spatial changes wrought by armed conflict produce postconflict geographies that are profoundly different from human geographies in stable settings. While battlefield encounters do influence the postconflict period, the spatial repercussions of disrupted livelihood patterns that are dependent on specific landscapes are much more important. After the end of a war, the spatial control still exerted by the different sides in the conflict, large‐s…
Addressing conflict through collective action in natural resource management
The food security crisis and international “land grabs” have drawn renewed attention to the role of natural resource competition in the livelihoods of the rural poor. While significant empirical research has focused on diagnosing the links between natural resource competition and (violent) conflict, much less has focused on the dynamics of whether and how resource competition can be transformed to strengthen social-ecological resilience and mitig…
The Water Crisis in Yemen: Managing Extreme Water Scarcity in the Middle East
The array of critical water issues in the Middle East, from supply, quality, and equity to disputes and armed conflict, continues to aggravate governance, food security, development, and peace. “Water wars” are thought to loom significantly in the region's future, with a lack of information about the resource-institution-society nexus in particular complicating work toward viable solutions. Yemen is at the apex of the problem, combining extreme p…
Weaponization of the Land and Property Rights system in the Syrian civil war: Facilitating restitution
The Syrian civil war has seen the weaponization of its land and property rights system by the primary combatant groups in the country. The government is the most robust in its use of the tenure system to locate, target, destroy, confiscate, cleanse and gain revenue by way of the institutions and attributes comprising the system. Based on fieldwork with Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, this article describes seven ways the Syrian gov…
The structure and function of keywords in the development of civil wars: Opportunities for peace building
With intrastate wars the prevailing form of armed conflict, attention is focusing on analytical approaches able to provide insights into the drivers of conflict and the prospects for peacebuilding at the level of discrete populations.While 'narratives of grievance' play a strong role in the development of conflicts, unexamined in the literature is why there is pervasively a high degree of ambiguity, confusion, and multiple meanings with regard to…
Evidencing the restitution landscape: Pre-emptive and advance techniques for war-torn land and property rights reacquisition
Constituencies of conflict and opportunity: Land rights, narratives and collective action in Darfur
Impacts of forest-related large-scale land acquisitions in the Indian Ocean world
With the ‘global land grab’ now a primary ongoing process in the developing world, greater attention to region-specific analyses provides critical insights for effective policy responses. The Indian Ocean world has the greatest regional concentration of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) globally, and it is also where most of the investor countries reside. Yet examination of Indian Ocean-specific patterns and processes of LSLAs is lacking. One…
Land Rights under Stress in Darfur: A Volatile Dynamic of the Conflict
The aggravation of land rights over time in Darfur was a primary factor in the initiation of the conflict, and has emerged as a particularly difficult set of issues in the search for viable peace. While the prospect of being able to keep land acquired in course of the conflict was a primary factor in recruitment for the Janjaweed, it came on the heels of a set of changes in the environment, land use and population patterns, institutions, law and …
Land and Legality in the Darfur Conflict
Land rights in Darfur act as a principal protagonist to the cause and maintenance of the ongoing armed conflict. The internal functioning and interaction of statutory, customary, and Islamic legal regimes regarding land have facilitated significant aspects of the war, and their reform will be fundamental to any effective peace process. This article describes the role of these legalities in the conflict. Subsequent to a description of the legal en…
A volatile interaction between peacebuilding priorities: Road infrastructure (re)construction and land rights in Afghanistan
The current approach to peacebuilding is to focus on the specific building blocks of the process. However, such attention and building blocks are to date largely isolated from each other in their planning, analysis, implementation and measures for success with regard to contributing to overall peace. While two of these, land rights and road infrastructure, are regarded separately as crucial to post-war recovery, their interaction has not yet been…
Eviction policy in postwar Angola
The interaction between landmine clearance and land rights in Angola: A volatile outcome of non-integrated peacebuilding
Tree-Based Carbon Storage in Developing Countries: Neglect of the Social Sciences
While much is now known about the biophysical potential of carbon storage in the tropics, lacking is an equally vigorous examination of the sociopolitical potential. The result has been a profoundly uneven understanding by the policy community of the overall potential of carbon storage. This article argues that the neglected domains of governance, development, and benefits obfuscate a realistic estimation of the carbon that can be stored on tropi…
Carbon sequestration in Africa: The land tenure problem
Land Tenure and Legal Pluralism in the Peace Process
Land tenure has proven to be one of the most vexing issues in a peace process. The disintegration of land and property rights institutions during armed conflict yet the importance of land and property to the conduct of conflict present particular dilemmas for a peace process attempting to reconfigure aspects of societal relations important to recovery. In this regard understanding what happens to land tenure as a set of social relations during an…
Changing conflict resolution institutions in the Ethiopian pastoral commons: The role of armed confrontation in rule-making
Chronic Uncertainty and Momentary Opportunity: A half century of adaptation among Zambia's Gwembe Tonga
Land Tenure and the “Evidence Landscape” in Developing Countries
The utility of landscape as an important component of cultural geography continues to evolve. This article demonstrates the utility of the landscape concept in reconciling informal and formal land rights. Land tenure has proved to be one of the most perplexing issues in the developing world. The inability of formal and customary property rights systems to effectively connect in ways that provide for tenure security creates dilemmas not easily ove…
Land rights in postwar Liberia: The volatile part of the peace process
The political ecology of recovery from armed conflict: The case of landmines in Mozambique
Local Land Tenure in the Peace Process
The disintegration of land tenure institutions during armed conflict, and yet the importance of property, land, homeland, and territory to the cause and conduct of conflict presents particular dilemmas for a peace process attempting to reconfigure important aspects of social relations.While land issues can be at the center of many civil conflicts, in subsequent peace efforts they are most frequently addressed in a general framework presented in p…
Land tenure and identity change in postwar Mozambique
Addressing conflict through collective action in natural resource management
The food security crisis and international “land grabs” have drawn renewed attention to the role of natural resource competition in the livelihoods of the rural poor. While significant empirical research has focused on diagnosing the links between natural resource competition and (violent) conflict, much less has focused on the dynamics of whether and how resource competition can be transformed to strengthen social-ecological resilience and mitig…
Constituencies of conflict and opportunity: Land rights, narratives and collective action in Darfur
A volatile interaction between peacebuilding priorities: Road infrastructure (re)construction and land rights in Afghanistan
The current approach to peacebuilding is to focus on the specific building blocks of the process. However, such attention and building blocks are to date largely isolated from each other in their planning, analysis, implementation and measures for success with regard to contributing to overall peace. While two of these, land rights and road infrastructure, are regarded separately as crucial to post-war recovery, their interaction has not yet been…
Poverty and property rights in the developing world: Not as simple as we would like
Land Rights under Stress in Darfur: A Volatile Dynamic of the Conflict
The aggravation of land rights over time in Darfur was a primary factor in the initiation of the conflict, and has emerged as a particularly difficult set of issues in the search for viable peace. While the prospect of being able to keep land acquired in course of the conflict was a primary factor in recruitment for the Janjaweed, it came on the heels of a set of changes in the environment, land use and population patterns, institutions, law and …
Territorial Tensions: Rainforest Conservation, Postconflict Recovery, and Land Tenure in Liberia
Since the cessation of civil conflict in 2003, the Liberian government is poised to expand greatly its protected area network to conserve the country's remaining rainforest. Liberia holds within its borders nearly half of the remaining Guinean rainforest, a global biodiversity hotspot. The planning process for this effort has been a central part of rebuilding Liberia's forestry sector, which helped fuel past conflict. The process, known as the Li…
Demarcating forest, containing disease: Land and HIV/Aids in southern Zambia
Nomadic pastoralism and irrigated agriculture in Somalia: Utilization of existing land use patterns in designs for multiple access of ?high potential? areas of semi-arid Africa
Crafting land restitution in Colombia: Optimizing a legal, social and institutional framework
Weaponization of the Land and Property Rights system in the Syrian civil war: Facilitating restitution
The Syrian civil war has seen the weaponization of its land and property rights system by the primary combatant groups in the country. The government is the most robust in its use of the tenure system to locate, target, destroy, confiscate, cleanse and gain revenue by way of the institutions and attributes comprising the system. Based on fieldwork with Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, this article describes seven ways the Syrian gov…
Evidencing the restitution landscape: Pre-emptive and advance techniques for war-torn land and property rights reacquisition
Agroforestry, reforestry, and the carbon problem: The role of land and tree tenure
Large scale reforestation in the tropics has the potential to sequester large amounts of carbon and to help to mitigate the buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, unless the causes of deforestation are addressed, reforestation efforts will be in vain. The link between deforestation and reforestation operates within the domain of human intervention on the landscape, and includes the patterns of land resource use and access. This review co…
Agroforestry, reforestry, and the carbon problem The role of land and tree tenure
Housing, Land and Property Rights in Transitional Justice
The structure and function of keywords in the development of civil wars: Opportunities for peace building
With intrastate wars the prevailing form of armed conflict, attention is focusing on analytical approaches able to provide insights into the drivers of conflict and the prospects for peacebuilding at the level of discrete populations.While 'narratives of grievance' play a strong role in the development of conflicts, unexamined in the literature is why there is pervasively a high degree of ambiguity, confusion, and multiple meanings with regard to…
Land and Legality in the Darfur Conflict
Land rights in Darfur act as a principal protagonist to the cause and maintenance of the ongoing armed conflict. The internal functioning and interaction of statutory, customary, and Islamic legal regimes regarding land have facilitated significant aspects of the war, and their reform will be fundamental to any effective peace process. This article describes the role of these legalities in the conflict. Subsequent to a description of the legal en…
Integration of transhumant pastoralism and irrigated agriculture in semi-arid East Africa
Nomadic pastoralism and irrigated agriculture in Somalia: Utilization of existing land use patterns in designs for multiple access of ?high potential? areas of semi-arid Africa
Refugee resettlement on the Horn of Africa
Restocking Refugee Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa
Repeated and lingering famine in the Horn of Africa has produced enormous pastoralist refugee populations in a region where livestock production is a major form of land use. Permanently settling destitute pastoralists has a record of failure. It can disrupt host land-uses, causing social and ecological problems, and prevent the utilization of very large grazing areas where pastoralism may be the only ecologically and economically sustainable land…
The relationship between indigenous pastoralist resource tenure and state tenure in Somalia
Agroforestry, reforestry, and the carbon problem: The role of land and tree tenure
Large scale reforestation in the tropics has the potential to sequester large amounts of carbon and to help to mitigate the buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, unless the causes of deforestation are addressed, reforestation efforts will be in vain. The link between deforestation and reforestation operates within the domain of human intervention on the landscape, and includes the patterns of land resource use and access. This review co…
Agroforestry, reforestry, and the carbon problem The role of land and tree tenure
The Role of Land Conflict and Land Conflict Resolution in a Peace Process: Mozambique's Return to Agriculture
The massive return and reintegration of refugees and displaced persons in Mozambique (the largest in the histoy of Africa) has pushed land tenure issues to the fore in the county's peace process. While land re-access for the six million dislocatees is critical for food, security and political stability, conflict over land resources has become a primary concern of the government and both the regional and international community participating in Mo…
Land tenure and identity change in postwar Mozambique
Land use vs. climate as causes of vegetation change: A study in SE Arizona
Poverty and property rights in the developing world: Not as simple as we would like
Local Land Tenure in the Peace Process
The disintegration of land tenure institutions during armed conflict, and yet the importance of property, land, homeland, and territory to the cause and conduct of conflict presents particular dilemmas for a peace process attempting to reconfigure important aspects of social relations.While land issues can be at the center of many civil conflicts, in subsequent peace efforts they are most frequently addressed in a general framework presented in p…
Land Tenure and Legal Pluralism in the Peace Process
Land tenure has proven to be one of the most vexing issues in a peace process. The disintegration of land and property rights institutions during armed conflict yet the importance of land and property to the conduct of conflict present particular dilemmas for a peace process attempting to reconfigure aspects of societal relations important to recovery. In this regard understanding what happens to land tenure as a set of social relations during an…
The political ecology of recovery from armed conflict: The case of landmines in Mozambique
Environmental Change and its Implications for Population Migration
"This volume provides an ample overview of state-of-the-art understanding of the multi-dimensional phenomenon of migration, in the characterisation of migration drivers, in environmental and agro-economic case studies and modelling issues as well as socio-political analyses."--BOOK JACKET
Changing conflict resolution institutions in the Ethiopian pastoral commons: The role of armed confrontation in rule-making
Political and Economic Liberalisation in Zambia 1991-2001 (review)
Rakner, Lise. 2003. Political and Economic Liberalisation in Zambia 1991–2001. Uppsala, Transaction
Land Tenure and the “Evidence Landscape” in Developing Countries
The utility of landscape as an important component of cultural geography continues to evolve. This article demonstrates the utility of the landscape concept in reconciling informal and formal land rights. Land tenure has proved to be one of the most perplexing issues in the developing world. The inability of formal and customary property rights systems to effectively connect in ways that provide for tenure security creates dilemmas not easily ove…
Debates: Urbanization in the developing world and the acutely tenure insecure
While the economic potential of privatizing small‐scale properties in impoverished urban areas of the developing world is receiving a good deal of attention, in reality the potential only applies to a segment of the urban poor. ‘Informally occupied property’, instead of existing as a category, in reality operates as a broad continuum of tenure security. Toward the secure end informal occupation can contain the ingredients that facilitate titling …
Chronic Uncertainty and Momentary Opportunity: A half century of adaptation among Zambia's Gwembe Tonga
Catalyzing the Socio-Legal Space for Armed Conflict: Land and Legal Pluralism in Pre-War Liberia
Carbon sequestration in Africa: The land tenure problem
Management of spatially extensive natural resources in postwar contexts: Working with the peace process
Demarcating forest, containing disease: Land and HIV/Aids in southern Zambia
Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges, John McPeak and Peter Little
Geography (40 works) · Political science (40 works) · Economics (31 works) · Law (30 works) · Law (23 works) · Agriculture (22 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Land tenure (19 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (17 works) · Politics (17 works)