Liz Alden Wily*, a Fellow of the Rights and Resources Initiative, will present a new series of briefs on African Customary Land Rights – Rights to Resources in Crisis: Reviewing the Fate of Customary Tenure in Africa on Tuesday, November 8 from 4:00-5:00 PM at The River Inn located at 924 25th St. SW in downtown Washington, DC. The briefs assess the status of customary land rights and the forces that will affect them as Africa develops. The 5 brief series Rights to Resources in Crisis: Reviewing the Fate of Customary Tenure in Africa includes briefs on:

• Customary Land Tenure in the Modern World
• Putting 20th-Century Land Policies in Perspective
• Land Reform in Africa: A Reappraisal
• The Status of Customary Land Rights in Africa Today
• The Global Land Rush: What this Means for Customary Land Rights

Please RSVP to Misty Jones at [email protected] by November 7, 2011.   For more information on the author, click here.  

Resources

Copies of this 5 brief series will be publicly available after the launch on November 8, 2011. Please check back then.