Symposium on Land Administration
in Post Conflict Areas

Co-organised by

Kosovo Cadastral Agency KCA

UN-Habitat


UN-European Headquarter
Palais des Nations
Room XXV
Geneva, Switzerland
29 - 30 April 2004

Programme and Proceedings

Wednesday April 28, 2004

18:00-20:00 Informal Welcome Reception
sponsored by KCA at Crown Plaza Geneva Hotel
Room Disco Clin D'Oeil 26, Voie de Moens, 1218 Geneva

Thursday April 29, 2004

08:30 Registration

09:00
09:05
09:15
09:25
09:35

  • Opening by Paul van der Molen, Chair FIG Commission 7
  • Welcome by Murat Meha, CEO Kosovo Cadastral Agency KCA
  • Welcome by Dan Lewis on behalf of UN-Habitat
  • Welcome by Mika Törhönen on behalf of UN-FAO
  • Welcome by András Osskó on behalf of the Central-European Land Knowledge Center (CELK Center)
09:45 Coffee Break
10:15-12:00

 

10:15
 

10:40

 

11:05




11:30

First Session
General Aspects
Chair: Paul van der Molen

Dan Lewis, UN-Habitat Disaster Post Conflict and Safety Section, Kenya
Challenges to Sustainable Peace: Land Disputes Following Conflict

Clarissa Augustinus, UN-Habitat, Kenya and Michael Barry, University of Calgary
Strategic Action Planning in Post Conflict societies

Jaap Zevenbergen, Delft University of Technology and Paul van der Molen, Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency, The Netherlands
Legal aspects of land administration in post conflict areas
- powerpoint slides in .pdf-format

Discussion

12:00

Lunch Break
13:30-17:00

 

13:30


 

13:55

Second Session
Country Experiences
Chair: Mural Meha

Mika-Petteri Törhönen and David Palmer, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Italy
Land administration in post conflict Cambodia
- powerpoint slides in .pdf-format

Jan van Hemert, Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency, The Netherlands
Experiences with land administration in Guatemala
- powerpoint slides in .pdf-format

14:20 Tea Break
14:50

 

15:15



15:40


 

16:05

Liz Alden Wily, Independent land tenure & natural resources management advisor, United Kingdom
Putting registration in perspective in rural areas: the case of Afghanistan

Mia Flores-Borquez, JUSTICIA (a NGO concerned with human rights), United Kingdom
Land administration in post conflict Chile

Milan Brajnik, Assistant Director, Geodetic Institute of Slovenia, Slovenia
Slovenian experiences, an example from a transition country
- powerpoint slides in .pdf-format

Discussion & closing of the day

Friday April 30, 2004

09:00-12:00

 

09:00

 

09:25




09:50

Third Session
Experiences in the Balkan
Chair: Dan Lewis

Murat Meha, The Kosovo Cadastral Agency KCA, Kosovo
Land Administration in Kosovo before and after the War (1999)
- powerpoint slides in .pdf-format

Zoran Popovic, Ivan Aleksic and Zagorka Gospavic, Republic Geodetic Authority, Republic of Serbia
Land administration in post conflict Serbia
- powerpoint slides in .pdf-format

David Stanfield, Terra Institute and University of Wisconsin, USA
The creation of an immovable property registration system in Albania
- powerpoint slides in .pdf-format

10:15 Coffee Break
10:35

 

11:00

 

11:25

Željko Bačić, State Geodetic Administration, Republic of Croatia
Transition of land administration in post war Croatia
- powerpoint slides in .pdf-format

Jean-Luc Horisberger, GTZ Land Registry Project in BiH, Switzerland
Land administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war
- powerpoint slides in .pdf-format

Torsten Schoen, UNMIK, Kosovo (Germany)
The co-operation between international experts and the UN, lessons learned in Kosovo

12:00 Lunch Break
14:00





16:00

Fourth Session
Evaluations and Conclusions
Chair: Paul van der Molen

Evaluation and Conclusions

Closing of the Symposium

Paper not presented Eugčne Rurangwa, Ministry of Lands, Human Resettlement and Environmental Protection, Rwanda
Land administration in Rwanda post genocide

© International Federation of Surveyors, 2004

Last revised on 16-10-27