This book analyses the ubiquitous housing, land and property challenges present in all conflict and post-conflict settings.

1. Introduction to the issues - HLP rights and sustainable peace; 2. The international HLP rights normative framework; 3. Displacement, conflict and HLP rights; 4. HLP restitution rights: theory, law and concepts; 5. Restitution mechanisms and institutional frameworks; 6. United Nations and other peace operations and HLP rights; 7. Protracted displacement and political obstacles to the protection of HLP rights; 8. Emerging conceptual issues; 9. Improving international responses to HLP rights and conflict.

Scott Leckie is the Founder and Director of Displacement Solutions, an organization dedicated to resolving cases of forced displacement throughout the world. He also recently founded and directs the charitable organization Oneness World that supports small research and other projects promoting global citizenship and peaceful and evolutionary ways of building a post-nation-state world. He is also the founder of the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), an organization he headed from 1991 to 2007. Leckie has written and/or edited nine books and more than 175 articles and reports on issues including housing rights; economic, social and cultural rights; forced evictions; the right to housing and property restitution for refugees and internally displaced persons; and other human rights themes.