SETTLEMENT OF THE COMMUNITY’S RESIDENTIAL LAND CONFLICTS

Appendix: Military Intervention and Settlement Durability in Civil Conflicts

Land Titles and Conflicts in Guatemala

1 This paper analyzes the impact of formal property rights on plot use and credit access in 20 communities in Guatemala, and shows how these impacts differ depending on the community conflict context. The paper proposes a new instrument based on detailed information about the geographic location of the plots and historical titling processes to address the endogeneity concerns that are common in...

History, structure and action in the settlement of complex conflicts: the Northern Ireland case

This article argues for a historical-structural approach to explaining conflict and settlement. It argues that the manner in which institutions function and actors pursue their ends is in part determined by slow-moving inter-linked structural relationships whose logic, trajectory and effects can only be identified historically. In complex conflicts such structural configurations generate tenden...

De Facto and De Jure Property Rights : Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian , Brazilian

We present a conceptual framework to better understand the interaction between settlement and the emergence of de facto property rights on frontiers prior to governments establishing and enforcing de jure property rights. In this framework, potential rents associated with more exclusivity drives “demand” for commons arrangements but demand is not a sufficient explanation; norms and politics mat...

Urban Residential Land Value Analysis: The Case of Potenza

Urban real estate property values are mainly conditioned by several aspects, which can be summarized in two main classes: intrinsic and extrinsic ones. Intrinsic characters are specific goods while extrinsic features are related to a diversity of goods. Therefore, there is an extremely close correlation between "rigidity location" of property (fixed location) and its value. Possibilities offere...