Abstract:
The study has assessed the law of regional states in dispute settlement in relation to the dispute between the peasant and the government institutions taking the government as land administrators. Over the last decades the regional governments had acquired the power to administer rural land but their general focus rests on land distribution and economic enhancement without taking care of the causes of dispute happened with the government. The study tried to assess the role of legal facts in dispute resolution and the application of regional dispute resolution mechanism. The general objective of the study is to assess the regional government’s rural land laws position in relation to administrative dispute. Here qualitative approach was used for the study especially for identifying the causes of dispute, applicable principles of good governance and the position of regional rural land laws and grievance regulations. To arrive at the objective the research tried to use rural land laws and previous research as an input.
In general the study tried to identify the approach the law maker tried to take and the applicability of grievance redress mechanism in rural land administrative dispute and the position of the regions under study in stipulating administrative powers and dispute resolution mechanisms. The laws are analyzed from federal framework and compared either they inculcated the way to handle grievances and disputes that the peasant raised to insure his tenure security.
Based on the finding the study tried to assess the laws the body of laws from the perspective of customer satisfaction and federal laws administration of dispute. At last the findings of the research revealed there is a difference in inculcating and stipulating dispute resolution mechanism. Especially the power to decide deprivation of right, the mechanism of dispute resolution, and the power to pass administrative decision in conserving, utilizing and protection of land are vested in different organs in the study area. Some partially include mechanism for peasants for how to look government institutions for their grievance redress on rural land administrative dispute whereas others left it with silence. But both of them opened the door for receiving and resolving complaints through grievance redress mechanism. Finally the study has come up with important recommendations.