Call for Papers: Special issue of Environment and Urbanization

Colleagues are welcome to submit EoIs for this special issue edited by UI Associate Melanie Lombard and Martina Manara (UCL) on community-led responses to urban/ peri-urban land conflict, to be published October 2026.

Land Conflict
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Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026 for complete submissions; expressions of interest welcomed any time before 17th November 2025.

Submissions should respond to questions that include:

  • What types of land conflict do communities experience related to real estate development, access to housing and infrastructure, rural–urban migration, vulnerabilities along ethnic or religious lines, gender differences, challenges of inheritance or renting, among others?
  • How are they prevented, handled or resolved in specific contexts and by whom? In particular, how are local communities involved in these responses?
  • What type of outcomes do these conflicts and responses generate for the local community and specific groups?
  • Where could governments direct their policy focus? To what extent could they build upon or learn from existing community-led mechanisms of land conflict arbitration in given contexts?

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