Unchartered territory: Land, conflict and humanitarian action
- Land and transitional programming
Speaker:
Jon Unruh, McGill University
Discussants:
Judy Adoko, Land and Equity Movement in Uganda
Conor Foley, Independent Analyst
Caroline Gullick, Independent Analyst
Chair:
Paul Richards, Wageningen University - Land in emergency to development transitions: who does what? Or is there something we are missing here?
Speaker:
Liz Alden Wily, Independent Analyst
Discussants:
Robin Waters, RICS
Dan Lewis, UN-Habitat
Barbara McCallin, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Richard Trenchard, Food and Agriculture Organisation
Chair:
Gunnar Sorbo, Chr. Michelsen Institute - Land in Return, Reintegration and Recovery Processes
Speaker:
Chris Huggins, Independent Analyst
Discussants:
Allan Cain, Development Workshop – Angola
Koen Vlassenroot, University of Gent
Gregory Balke, UNHCR
Paul De Wit, Independent Analyst
Chair:
Roger Zetter, Refugee Studies Centre
Parallel panel sessions
- Panel 1: Transitional programming
Chair:
James Putzel, London School of Economics
Speaker:
Robin Palmer, Mokoro Limited
Speaker - IDP return:
Jacqui Kiggundu, Brookings Institution
Speaker - Post-conflict reconstruction:
Lizzie Babister, CARE - Panel 2: Protection and legal aid
Chair:
James Darcy, ODI
Speaker -Land tenure as a protection issue:
Pierre-Michel Perret, ICRC
Speaker - Monitoring and registration:
Sergio Odorizzi, Intersos
Speaker - Property restitution for refugees and internally displaced persons:
Fernando de Medina Rosales, Norwegian Refugee Council
Description
This conference provided a space for policymakers, academics and practitioners to share their experiences of land tenure issues and build up an understanding of how humanitarian organisations respond to them in their assistance and programming.