Land : Territory, Domain, and Identity

It is acknowledged that conflict over land is a major source of violence in various parts of Mindanao, particularly the prosed Bangsamoro region. Historical accounts trace the root cause of land issues and identity-based conflict to the introductio...

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Main Author: World Bank
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Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/968161490797321335/Land-territory-domain-and-identity
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spelling okr-10986-264142021-05-25T09:53:19Z Land : Territory, Domain, and Identity World Bank LAND DISPOSSESSION LAW AND JUSTICE DISPLACEMENT NATURAL DISASTERS CONFLICT SETTLEMENT LAND DISPUTES DISPUTE RESOLUTION DEMOGRAPHICS LAND ADMINISTRATION MINING It is acknowledged that conflict over land is a major source of violence in various parts of Mindanao, particularly the prosed Bangsamoro region. Historical accounts trace the root cause of land issues and identity-based conflict to the introduction of the Regalian doctrine of land ownership by Spanish colonizers. During the American colonial regime at the turn of the 20th century, dispossession of land held by the original inhabitants of Mindanao accelerated, with an emphasis of titling lands for private ownership that clashed with the tradition of ancestral domain. This was further exacerbated by migration instigated by the central government, starting with the development of "agricultural colonies: in the early 1900s to 1940s, to the passage of a series of land reform laws from the 1960s until the end of the 1980s to encourage individual land titling as a strategy for agricultural development. These evens radically altered land ownership patterns in Mindanao, as communal ownership of land by its original inhabitants gave way to individual titles in the possession of settlers from Luzon and the Visayas. 2017-04-20T21:15:49Z 2017-04-20T21:15:49Z 2017 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/968161490797321335/Land-territory-domain-and-identity http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26414 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Law and Justice Study East Asia and Pacific Philippines
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topic LAND DISPOSSESSION
LAW AND JUSTICE
DISPLACEMENT
NATURAL DISASTERS
CONFLICT SETTLEMENT
LAND DISPUTES
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
DEMOGRAPHICS
LAND ADMINISTRATION
MINING
spellingShingle LAND DISPOSSESSION
LAW AND JUSTICE
DISPLACEMENT
NATURAL DISASTERS
CONFLICT SETTLEMENT
LAND DISPUTES
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
DEMOGRAPHICS
LAND ADMINISTRATION
MINING
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Land : Territory, Domain, and Identity
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description It is acknowledged that conflict over land is a major source of violence in various parts of Mindanao, particularly the prosed Bangsamoro region. Historical accounts trace the root cause of land issues and identity-based conflict to the introduction of the Regalian doctrine of land ownership by Spanish colonizers. During the American colonial regime at the turn of the 20th century, dispossession of land held by the original inhabitants of Mindanao accelerated, with an emphasis of titling lands for private ownership that clashed with the tradition of ancestral domain. This was further exacerbated by migration instigated by the central government, starting with the development of "agricultural colonies: in the early 1900s to 1940s, to the passage of a series of land reform laws from the 1960s until the end of the 1980s to encourage individual land titling as a strategy for agricultural development. These evens radically altered land ownership patterns in Mindanao, as communal ownership of land by its original inhabitants gave way to individual titles in the possession of settlers from Luzon and the Visayas.
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title Land : Territory, Domain, and Identity
title_short Land : Territory, Domain, and Identity
title_full Land : Territory, Domain, and Identity
title_fullStr Land : Territory, Domain, and Identity
title_full_unstemmed Land : Territory, Domain, and Identity
title_sort land : territory, domain, and identity
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/968161490797321335/Land-territory-domain-and-identity
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26414
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