KNOWLEDGE We celebrated and shared advances in research and promising practices, unpacked emerging challenges to find new pathways and synergies to address statelessness, and interrogated the politics of knowledge production and consumption within the field. As we learned together and from one another, we also considered how to shape a new agenda for producing, valuing, sharing and using knowledge. We explored how we can do more to level the playing field; value and centre lived experience; go beyond data and break down knowledge hierarchies; be more creative and innovative; and strengthen the use of knowledge to support solidarity and change. Here are some key takeaways: Lived experience is expertise and one of the most crucial forms of knowledge that must be centred, platformed and supported. Stateless individuals and communities are key agents of knowledge and partners in knowledge production. Extractive practices in relation to the knowledge they hold, must be exposed and challenged; and hierarchies which privilege some types of knowledge (academic scholarship for example) must be broken down. Those with lived experience must be recognised as research collaborators and not just research subjects, and they must be supported to strengthen their knowledge production and dissemination capacities. THE ECHOES OF INJUSTICE HAVE BECOME MY PEN, AND THE CRIES OF THE STATELESS HAVE BECOME MY INK Multidisciplinary approaches should be adopted, to ensure a more robust, nuanced and comprehensive understanding of statelessness. Statelessness impacts people in a multitude of ways and mixing forms of knowledge in our approaches to knowing statelessness, can create results that are greater than their contingent parts. This requires recognising the legitimacy and place of different forms of knowledge production, and facilitating ways for them to speak to each other. Storytelling, oral histories, quantitative methods, intersectional approaches are all important. While there is extensive legal study into statelessness, further studies from other perspectives – socioeconomic, feminist, political, sociological etc. must be encouraged and strengthened. “ It seems as if we have understood that we need to work together and that we also have to learn and build knowledge as to how this standing together could actually then result in action and then also result in change.” Christiana Bukalo From the poem “Child of darkness” by Shahd Qannam Peer learning is very powerful because it helps to expand the arsenal of knowledge and tools that a person can deploy in their work. As the conference went on, there were panels and discussions in which people were citing examples from other countries that they have learned about to help them explain the issues that matter to them. “ After all the people I met here, I can really say that I've met the world, and I've been exposed to the world […] my experience or my horizon has expanded, and I think and I will fight better.” Abdikadir Mohamed