A Long Time Gone: Post-Conflict Rural Property Restitution under Customary Law
Publisher: Development and Change
Author(s): Sandra F. Joireman and Laura S. Meitzner Yoder
Date: 2016
Topics: Governance, Land, Livelihoods
Countries: Liberia, Timor-Leste, Uganda
Sandra Joireman would like to thank Jonathan Greenham, Greg Kitt and the staff at the Liberia Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission for their assistance with field research in Liberia. Joireman's research in Liberia was generously funded by the Earhart Foundation and in Uganda by the University of Richmond. Laura Meitzner Yoder acknowledges original funding for this research from Yale University and from a Human Needs and Global Resources Research Excellence Grant, Wheaton College. Nancy Horn was helpful in the discussions leading to the development of the article. Thanks to Ronald Atkinson, Sara Berry, Monti Datta, Stephen Long, Jenny Pribble, Charles Scheiner, Aleksandra Sznajder Lee and the journal's anonymous reviewers for comments. Donald Edmonds and Kim Klinker gave helpful technical support. All flaws are our own responsibility.