 If you are to take the view that culture is our way of life, the way we live in the world, culture is created in the process of work, of production. So if we take the view that culture is created in the process of production then there is no way one can divorce culture from issues of land governance and therefore it's really appropriate that those of us who work on land governance pay attention to communities and the ways in which they engage with the land in terms of decision making, in terms of institutions for conflict mediation and conflict mitigation and so forth and so on. And if you think about climate change also, the ways in which communities are mitigating climate change culturally in a sustainable way, maybe by growing indigenous foods and so forth. So arts culture and heritage are really, really important to the conference and in fact the theme for this year is arts culture and heritage and it is only fair that any activities taking place on the continent pay attention to this very important theme that has been agreed at the African Union level. The African Land Policy Center works on issues of, you know, knowledge production so there is the issue of how we generate knowledge but also ways in which policies become reshaped so that they are much more inclusive and much more community driven. So we are hoping that at the conference we will have an opportunity to discuss ways in which communities become much more integrated in our thinking and our plans for, you know, policy reform so that communities and their cultures are not seen to be extra to policy discussions but actually are integral to policy discussions. So we're hoping that in the course of the conference we will have opportunities to discuss policies that can drive, you know, systematic urbanization on the continent that can integrate communities more directly so that communities are integral to the policy reform processes and that we can in fact also have intergenerational dialogue because most of the young people are in arts and culture and creative industries and so on. So how do they get integrated into policy discussions even as they work within the creative industries sectors? So this is what we are hoping to achieve a much more inclusive approaches to land policy dialogues. People can become more involved because for the first time we are having a moment where we can discuss film, we can discuss visual arts, we can discuss fashion with the land economists and to show that there are opportunities in these sectors.