Grounded Legitimacy: Strengthening Local Land Registration In Conflict-Affected Northern Uganda

Although a key policy intervention for addressing conflict, land reform programs have complex implications for legitimacy of (inter)national and local actors. In this episode of Fragile Truths, Sudi Suleiman (Policy Officer at the Dutch MFA) talks to David Betge (Senior Specialist Land Rights at ZOA) about his research project on this relationship, illustrated by the case of Northern Uganda. Are NGO and policy officers paying enough attention to how land reform interventions impact the perceived authority of local actors, or their own legitimacy? How can interventions be better attuned to this ‘unmeasured’ local impact?

Click here for more information on the NWO-WOTRO research program. To get in touch with David Betge, you can e-mail him at: [email protected], or follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn. To get in touch with Sudi Suleiman, you can e-mail her at: [email protected], or follow her on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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