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Brooklyn Journal of International Law
Syria; Pinheiro Principles; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; UNHCR; Refugees; Displaced Persons; Internal Displacement; reconstruction; Public-Private Partnership; PPP; Housing; Land; and Property Rights; HLP; forced population transfers; reconciliation and evacuation; Bashar al-Assad; Useful Syria; Damascus; Aleppo; Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia; ESCWA; National Agenda for the Future of Syria; Land Tenure System; Musha; Agrarian Reform Law; Land Reform; Ba'ath Party; Agricultural Reform Law; Real Estate Development and Investment Law; Law 33 of 2008; Law 1 of 2003; Restitution; Sudan Human Rights Org. & Ctr. on Hous. Rights & Evictions v. Sudan; African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights; European Court of Human Rights; ECHR; European Convention on Human Rights; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; ICCPR; Human Rights Committee; HRC; Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts; International Court of Justice; ICJ; Permanent Court of International Justice; Kopecky v. Slovakia; Legislative Decree Law 5; Legislative Decree Law 107; Urban Development; National Partnership; Corruption
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Syria Under Pinheiro: Reformulating Syrian Domestic Law For Decentralized Reconstruction, George Somi
Syria Under Pinheiro: Reformulating Syrian Domestic Law For Decentralized Reconstruction, George Somi
Brooklyn Journal of International Law
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; since 2011; the Syrian conflict has generated roughly 5.4 million refugees; while approximately 6.5 million people are internally displaced within the country; making it the largest internally displaced population in the world. Rebuilding Syria’s infrastructure; homes; and businesses will be an immense task; with cost estimates ranging between $250–$350 billion USD. The Syrian government and the international community have already started to contemplate postwar reconstruction and even wartime reconstruction; despite the ongoing fighting. This Note operates under the assumption that the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad will; at a minimum; …