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Zenodo
2023
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18282084 |
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- <p>The severity of the population dislocation and destruction <br>of housing, land and property (HLP) in the Ukraine war <br>has driven efforts for starting reconstruction planning prior <br>to the war's end. This comes with the realization that re-<br>covery will entail considerable preparation, including ef-<br>forts at using seized Russian assets to finance it. Engaging <br>in HLP restitution and compensation will be a primary re-<br>covery challenge, with the Ukrainian government moving <br>forward with legislation for facilitating this. However, the <br>government's current approach to processing what will be <br>millions of HLP claims for restitution and compensation <br>faces a daunting challenge. Housing, land and property <br>rights prior to the war comprised a dense tangle of confu-<br>sion, corruption, and inadequate documentation; such that <br>attempting to untangle each claim on a case-by-case basis <br>as currently planned is highly problematic and risks insta-<br>bility. This article describes this tangle as five categories <br>of problems: (1) the post-Soviet transition, (2) rule of law <br>problems, (3) administrative tangles, (4) corruption, and (5) <br>war-related issues. The article then recommends that the <br>government and international community pursue a ‘mass <br>claims and transitional justice’ approach to large-scale HLP <br>restitution which is aligned with international best practice <br>and able to supersede the tenurial tangle</p>