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BADIL Fact-finding Visits - Refugee
Rights
Rule of law, community participation,
and best practice are three major components for a successful peace
process. Since 2002 BADIL has organized annual fact-finding visits for
Palestinian refugee activists to countries repairing the
damage of conflict.
Fact-finding visits provide
on-the-ground learning opportunities to witness how return and housing
and property restitution are implemented in other refugee cases. What was done?
How was it done? What worked? What did not work and why? Visits
include meetings with international agencies, national and local
governmental officials, non-governmental organizations, and refugees
themselves.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
10-17 June 2002 |
The fact-finding visit
to Bosnia-Herzegovina focused on refugee return and housing
property restitution. Participants met with UN and government
officials, NGOs, and refugees and displaced persons in Sarajevo,
Kupres, Banja Luka and Kozarac. |
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South Africa
12-19 November
2003 |
The fact-finding visit to
South Africa focused on land restitution and reform, community
participation, and the relationship between restitution and
post-conflict reconciliation. Participants met with government
officials, NGOs, and beneficiaries of the restitution process. |
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Cyprus
23-30 November 2004 |
The study visit to Cyprus will
focus on the human, political and legal dimension of conflict and peace
efforts in Cyprus as well as civil society perspectives. Participants
will meet with government officials, NGOs, and civil society activists
in the north and south of the country. |
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