An official book launch of the edited TrustLand volume “This Land Is Not For Sale” was held at Gulu University on January 25, 2024.  

Available now in Open Access: “This Land Is Not For Sale”.

We are so happy and grateful that our new book on land in Northern Uganda has been chosen for open access. Please feel free to download and share the link.

On behalf of the TrustLand research project,

Susan and Lotte

This Land Is Not For Sale Edited by Lotte Meinert and Susan Reynolds Whyte is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Knowledge Unlatched. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/OpenAccess/MeinertThis/9781805390473_OA.pdf

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OA ISBN: 978-1-80539-047-3

Trustland PhD researcher Mette Lind Kusk successfully defended her PhD thesis “On uncertain Ground: Intimate Wrangles over Land and Belonging in Northern Uganda” on May 7, 2018 at Moesgård, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University.

Assessment committee: 
Sverker Finnström, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University
Parker Shipton, Professor of Anthropology and Research Fellow in African Studies, Boston University
Maria Louw, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology,
School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University (Chair)

Supervisor:
Lotte Meinert, Professor with Special Responsibilities, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University

Co-supervisor:
Jane Guyer, Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Please find the 6 TrustLand Policy briefs prepared by TrustLand members and presented at a dissemination workshop in Gulu in December 2017 via the links below.

Policy brief 1POLICY BRIEF1: Legal Pluralism in Land Dispute Management by Irene Anying and Ben Otto Adol.
Policy brief 2POLICY BRIEF2: Women and Land in Acholi Sub-region: Safeguarding Rights, Promoting Access by Julaina Obika
Policy Brief 3POLICY BRIEF3: Youth, Livelihoods and Access to Land by Esther Acio and Susan Reynolds Whyte
Policy Brief 4Policy Brief 4: Institutional Land Conflicts by Susan Reynolds Whyte and Catrine Shroff
Policy Brief 5Policy Brief 5: Conflict over Protected Areas for Wildlife Conservation in Northern Uganda by Lioba Lenhart
Policy Brief 6POLICY BRIEF6: Land and Trust issues in Ik County by Lotte Meinert

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Thank you to all the participants in the TrustLand Writing retreat that took place in Aarhus, June 13-17, 2016. The goal is to publish a collaborative book with the working title: “Governance of Land in Northern Uganda: Practising land Conflicts”.