Is land a human rights issue : approaching land reform in South Africa

Abstract

This essay is submitted to The Ethics Program of the Norwegian Research Council in partial fulfilment of the PhD Course in “Human rights and conflict of norms”, offered in co-operation with The Norwegian Institute of Human Rights and the Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo (http://www.uio.no/etikkprogrammet/). I have written the essay as part of a three month “PhD planning project” carried out under a cooperation programme between the Agricultural University of Norway and the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of Western Cape, South Africa (Human rights, governance and land reform in South Africa).