Since the Arab Spring uprisings, much local and world attention has fixed on transforming central government institutions: presidency, legislatures and key ministries. However, contention at a far more-fundamental level, the land question is raging across the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) and promises to be a transitional justice priority for years to come.
The current issue of Digital Development Debates, an on-line journal of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), features an article by HIC-HLRN Coordinator Joseph Schechla, “Land of the Arab Spring.” The article surveys the land questions in four countries in the MENA region with their diverse examples of the need for reform in governance of the people’s natural resources.
