The TrustLand project approaches issues of governance and trust by focusing on land disputes in Northern Uganda and attempts to mediate them.
The research examines links between land, trust/mistrust and governance with emphasis on gender and generation. Drawing on a case based approach the project explores how differently positioned people manage, mitigate and engage conflicts in a setting of co-existing formal and parallel legal authorities. Issues include: claims to land and descent; women’s rights to land and security; individual and communal rights in relation to commercial interests in land; the discourses of traditional vs universal human rights in relation to property.