THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE IN MANAGING LAND-USE AND LAND-OWNERSHIP CONFLICTS

In many developing countries, land conflicts have been recognized as one of the primary triggers for anti-social behavior phenomena. In this regard, collaborative governance (CG) has been trusted as one of the viable mechanisms to manage conflicts (Emerson et al., 2011). However, some cases reveal that it seems considered too vague and less effective to manage the current conflict. This research aims to explore how collaborative governance can be optimized to be more effective in facilitating conflict resolution regarding land use and land ownership clashes. It applies a living lab methodology to sustain data collaborative mechanisms intended to gain an understanding of antisocial behavior and collaborative insight. This framework is also expected to fill the gap between the current collaborative perspective and the failure of existing mechanisms. The result of this study confirms that the existing mechanism lacks social value, and thus it may influence the degree of effectiveness in some ways. In the end, the living lab process has managed to successfully optimize two prominent aspects regarding the institutional environment as well as the collaborative structure to increase its effectiveness. This finding contributes to fulfilling the argument of Dekker et al. (2019) and Ruijer (2021) about the living lab’s role in facilitating the interaction within antisocial cases.