 Hi everyone, my name is Anne-Annsums and I will be your host for the session Access to Natural Resources, Conflict Regulation and Maritalization of Peripherized Actors in Short Poor Sock 5. What can you expect for our session? Well, we're going to bring together a group of scholars from the Great Lakes region in Africa and they're going to jointly reflect on the role and the strategies of peripherized actors in natural resource management and natural resource protection. We're going to shed light on how these actors try to navigate in extremely difficult circumstances and how they develop strategies for resilience and resistance. Our session will take place on Thursday from 11.20 to 12.50 and you're all very welcome.