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Zenodo
2012
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18192785 |
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- <p>The current approach to peacebuilding by the international community is to focus on the priorities<br>thought to be important to recovery, but this occurs in a largely non-integrated way. With these different<br>endeavors largely isolated from each other in planning, analysis, implementation, and measures for<br>success, little is known about how they interact and whether or not the aggregate effect contributes to, or<br>detracts from durable peace. This is especially important for priorities which in some way interact with<br>each other on the ground among a recipient population. Two of these priorities for recovery, landmine<br>clearance and land rights, while taking place on the same lands at the same time, and for the same<br>people, are regarded separately as crucial to postwar recovery, and their interaction has not yet been<br>examined. This article looks at these two priorities for Angola, and finds in their interaction a number of<br>ways in which they detract from durable peace. This is a result of, 1) the role of areas adjacent to mine<br>contaminated locations, 2) land grabbing, 3) the actions and role of the State, 4) the problematic<br>interaction between different sectors involved in recovery, 5) the ongoing return of refugees and internal<br>dislocatees and their (re)settlement, and 6) the lack of awareness of land tenure issues on the part of<br>‘mine action’ organizations. Subsequent to an examination of these forms of interaction this article looks<br>at possible ways forward, focusing on, 1) the derivation of a form of ‘forced transparency’ as a deterrent<br>to land grabbing, 2) enhancing the utility of ‘land release’ within the mine action community, 3) linkage<br>of the different sectors concerned with mine action and land rights, and 4) the role that donors of mine<br>action can play.</p>