Deriving Countermeasures to the Use of Housing, Land and Property Rights as a War-Financing Commodity

Efforts to thwart the trafficking of conflict commodities finance wars constitute an ongoing endeavour. As specific approaches become effective for certain commodities, belligerent actors pursue new forms exploitation. The housing, land and property (HLP) rights in war zones has now reached a pervasiveness, lucrativeness severity warrant significant attention on derivation countermeasures. This article proposes set potential countermeasures HLP by examining five sets possible mechanisms how they would work: detection, transnational governance, local-level countermeasures, public messaging, targeting non-state armed groups.