Conference Announcement : NELandCon 2020

Conference Announcement for  :

1st North-East Land Conference ( NELandCon 2020 )
Venue: MLCU, Shillong, Meghalaya.
Dates: January 30-31, 2020

The Land Conference in the North East India is a humble first step of India Land Ecosystem in this direction. NE India ex-emplifies and boasts unique and rich diversity in land govern-ance regimes which are witnessing a rapid transformation vis-à-vis contemporary development paradigms, generating op-portunities, challenges and risks for local community and other land actors, while underlining engagements by multi-actors from different sectors, across scale and levels.

While communal systems were able to accommodate tradi-tional and natural resources based livelihoods, they are now increasingly challenged by the demands of new models of economic development. The system of land governance based on un-codified customary norms, traditional/ocular measure-ments, verbal/local rights recognition, village-based dispute resolutions is struggling to cope up with the increasing aspira-tions, livelihoods needs and disputes, fuelled by liberalization, privatization and globalization. Questions like protection of indigenous identity; local cultural diversity and customs, in-formed consent, data privacy and ethics are emerging as new narratives open to debates. Concerns around individualization and privatization of land tenure; threats of dilution of commu-nity tenure, collective actions and common pool resources; risks of centralization of land administration and arguments on women land rights within customary regimes are growing while development induced acquisitions and expropriation of land is increasingly contested.

Important Dates:

Last date for abstract submission : January 15, 2020
Submission of Full Paper, Poster : January 15, 2020

For more details please visit the India Land and Development Conference webpage at https://centerforland.org/nelc2020 and contact us at nelandconf@gmail.com

Registration Fees

Registration fee for Paper presenters will be. DD should be in favour of “.....” pay-able at Shillong.
The participants are re-quested to pay the registration fee well in advance.

For Students: Rs 200
For Research Scholars: Rs 200
For Individuals: Rs. 1000

If Accommodation is required kindly send an email to nelandconf@gmail.com

Last Date for Registration:  December 31, 2019.

 

Bank Details

Account Name : Martin Luther Christian University
Account No : 30273827809
Bank : State Bank of India
Rynjah Bazar, Pohkseh, Shillong,
Meghalaya 793006
IFSC Code : SBIN0011627

 

  1. To present collectively a status of land tenure narratives, trends, issues in NE India.
  2. To attempt an update of engagements working on land ten-ure and development interface in NE India.
  3. To trigger an inter-sectoralinformation platform for con-necting researchers, practitioners and other land-actors pro-mote conversation, connection and collaborations around land and development action, research and advocacy
  4. To contribute towards connecting land-communities across sectors, with global actors around common interest, narratives while triggering and amplifying innovative and interdiscipli-nary partnerships around contemporary and emerging land tenure issues in NE India