Editing Refugee (section)

===Right of return===
{{Main|Right of return}}

Even in a supposedly "post-conflict" environment, it is not a simple process for refugees to return home.<ref name="Pantuliano">Sara Pantuliano (2009) [http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/details.asp?id=4409&title=uncharted-territory-land-conflict-humanitarian-action Uncharted Territory: Land, Conflict and Humanitarian Action] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120022837/https://www.odi.org/publications |date=20 January 2021 }} [[Overseas Development Institute]]</ref> The UN Pinheiro Principles are guided by the idea that people not only have the right to return home, but also the right to the same property.<ref name="Pantuliano"/> It seeks to return to the pre-conflict status quo and ensure that no one profits from violence. Yet this is a very complex issue and every situation is different; conflict is a highly transformative force and the pre-war status-quo can never be reestablished completely, even if that were desirable (it may have caused the conflict in the first place).<ref name="Pantuliano"/> Therefore, the following are of particular importance to the right to return:<ref name="Pantuliano"/>
* May never have had property (e.g., in Afghanistan)
* Cannot access what property they have (Colombia, Guatemala, South Africa and Sudan)
* Ownership is unclear as families have expanded or split and division of the land becomes an issue
* Death of owner may leave dependents without clear claim to the land
* People settled on the land know it is not theirs but have nowhere else to go (as in Colombia, Rwanda and Timor-Leste)
* Have competing claims with others, including the state and its foreign or local business partners (as in Aceh, Angola, Colombia, Liberia and Sudan).
Refugees who were [[third country resettlement|resettled to a third country]] will likely lose the indefinite leave to remain in this country if they return to their country of origin or the country of first asylum.