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Introduction: Questioning Boundaries and Belonging

Disputes over land and territory that are proliferating in the African continent are increasingly related to armed conflicts and displacement. Religious conflicts, violent insurgencies, and civil wars have important spatial dimensions revolving around territories, boundaries, and questions of belonging. Violent conflict is increasingly recurrent, causing population displacement on both microand macro-scales and disrupting local livelihoods and property institutions. The central focus of this ASR Forum is on the dynamics and consequences of conflict, displacement, and land disputes in Africa that occur on various levels of formality and sociality. In settings of forced mobility and resettlement, land property claims often become central in the continuing struggles over community membership and access to resources. Novel modes of belonging and changing patterns of association give rise to new resource and property claims, and new forms of evidence