Rwanda

This report is part of a broader comparative effort by the Overseas Development Institute’s Humanitarian Policy Group on Land Tenure in Conflict and Post- Conflict Situations, which aims to inform and improve the policy and practice of humanitarian action and to inform related areas of international policy. It seeks to understand how land issues affect and are affected by violence and conflict resolution, what responses are appropriate and what lessons can be learned from specific contexts of land tenure interventions, both during and after conflict.

This is a discussion paper concerned with some of the acute dilemmas increasingly confronted by international relief agencies concerned with "political emergencies" - often called "complex emergencies" - in Africa... This paper argues that relief organizations largely developed their current mandates during the Cold War era. These restricted mandates are less relevant to many current disasters in Africa.

This report examines the state of affairs in Rwanda and Burundi, the impact of these countries on the region, the region's effect on them, and ways to advance political and economic participation and the rule of law.