This paper summarises the discussions and conclusions of a two-day seminar on the links between land issues and violent conflict held on 26^th – 27^th March 2024. It was organised by the ‘Land Tenure and Development’ Technical Committee (CTFD), and took place at AFD.

The Committee’s work on various aspects of this issue over the last decade include a one-day event held in 2015, country-specific days on Côte d’Ivoire in 2018 and Mali in 2019, and coordinating a special issue of the journal RIED in 2019.

The two-day seminar in 2024 was prepared with support from Jean-Pierre Chauveau, and led by Amel Benkahla (GRET, CTFD secretariat) and Jacobo Gralajes (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). Sessions over the two days covered: (i) the conceptual and scientific framework for a continuous, process-based approach to the links between land issues and violent conflict, with presentations by Jean-Pierre Jacob (IHEID Geneva) and Jacobo Grajales (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne); (ii) analyses of the impact of crises on agro-pastoral activities in the Sahel presented by Blamah Jalloh and Mathieu Pellerin (RBM); and a presentation by Emmanuelle Veuillet (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) showing how armed groups in South Sudan used the livestock economy; (iii) case studies on different types of conflict and population displacement in Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon, with contributions from Pierre Kamdem (University of Poitiers), Mathieu Bonnefond (CNAM), Armand Josué Djah and Michael N’Goh-Koffi Yoman (Alassane Ouattara University, Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire), Henri Yambené Bomono and Jean-Marie Nkenné (GRAMUR NGO, Yaoundé, Cameroon).

The seminar ended with a round-table discussion on the implementation of Côte d’Ivoire’s Land Law and the challenges of formalising rights in the north of the country, with contributions from Mathias Koffi (Director of Technical Operations at AFOR), Toni Giovanni Pegurri (PhD student, University of Lille) and Achille Gnoko (Head of land issues for the Alerte Foncier platform).