LANDac successfully concludes its Annual Conference and Summer School 2025
Utrecht: LANDac successfully organised its 11th Annual International conference titled “Plurality of Knowledge: The Future of Land Governance in Shifting Glocal Contexts”. The conference started with an inspiring opening panel with key notes by Esther Mwaura-Muiru, Raymond Cardinal and An Ansoms. A blog and link to the key notes is available on the Land Portal. Participants from across the globe then exchanged on themes including collaborations, impact of knowledge, migration, post conflict land governance and local approaches in 32 parallel sessions spread over two days. The conference closed with reflections by Elizabeth Daley, Jahin Shams Sakkhar and Marco Lankhorst. In particular, this year’s conference was dedicated to share the rich learnings over five years of collaboration in the LAND-at-scale programme, and to use these learnings to inform how land governance can contribute towards equality and justice in an increasingly polarising world.
The Organising Committee
Prior to the conference, 12 well-motivated students engaged in an Early Career Researchers Day under the guidance of Ellen Magnus, working on translating their academic research into usable knowledge for other stakeholders.
This year the conference was an integral part of the Summer School “Fair Land Governance and the Politics of Competing Claims”. In the 12th version, 24 students, practitioners and policy makers came together for lectures by a range of (international) lecturers from the LANDac network. They ended their Summer School with the presentation of a land use plan that integrated different knowledges and recognised multiple claims to land.
Last Updated: 15th July 2025 by Coordinator
LANDac successfully concludes its Annual Conference and Summer School 2025
Utrecht: LANDac successfully organised its 11th Annual International conference titled “Plurality of Knowledge: The Future of Land Governance in Shifting Glocal Contexts”. The conference started with an inspiring opening panel with key notes by Esther Mwaura-Muiru, Raymond Cardinal and An Ansoms. A blog and link to the key notes is available on the Land Portal. Participants from across the globe then exchanged on themes including collaborations, impact of knowledge, migration, post conflict land governance and local approaches in 32 parallel sessions spread over two days. The conference closed with reflections by Elizabeth Daley, Jahin Shams Sakkhar and Marco Lankhorst. In particular, this year’s conference was dedicated to share the rich learnings over five years of collaboration in the LAND-at-scale programme, and to use these learnings to inform how land governance can contribute towards equality and justice in an increasingly polarising world.
Prior to the conference, 12 well-motivated students engaged in an Early Career Researchers Day under the guidance of Ellen Magnus, working on translating their academic research into usable knowledge for other stakeholders.
This year the conference was an integral part of the Summer School “Fair Land Governance and the Politics of Competing Claims”. In the 12th version, 24 students, practitioners and policy makers came together for lectures by a range of (international) lecturers from the LANDac network. They ended their Summer School with the presentation of a land use plan that integrated different knowledges and recognised multiple claims to land.
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