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Chris Huggins is a researcher, lecturer, and trainer with more than 15 years experience on land and natural resources rights in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the political economy of land and agricultural reform. He was previously based in Nairobi as a Research Fellow with the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), and in Kigali as Rwanda Researcher for Human Rights Watch. Training and lecturing work has included teaching at 杏吧原创 University鈥檚 Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the School of International Development and Global Studies at University of Ottawa, and co-designing professional training courses for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).聽 He has consulted with U.N. agencies, bilateral donors, policy think-tanks, International Non-Governmental Organizations, and for-profit institutions.

He has contributed directly to major international reports such as the Annual Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Housing to the UN Human Rights Council. His co-edited textbook on Conflict and Housing, Land and Property Rights has been included on the syllabi of several university courses, including at the University of Edinburgh; University of Tulsa; and University of Copenhagen. Chris is a collaborator on a Major Collaborative Research Initiative, The Indian Ocean World, coordinated by McGill University; a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), which was ranked among the top 25 most influential climate change think tanks in the world in 2013; and is currently completing a post-doctoral position at the Netherlands Academy of Land Governance and Food Security (based at Utrecht University). In September 2015 he will commence a prestigious two-year Banting Post-Doctoral Fellowship, based at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, under the supervision of Dr. James Orbinski, a member of the Order of Canada recognized as having published papers among the 鈥渂est science in the world鈥� and as having “shaped scholarship in the field of global health in the post Second World War years”.

Selected Publications:

Journal Articles

2015. 鈥淟and-Grabbing, Agricultural Investment and Land Reform in the Democratic Republic Of Congo鈥�
L’Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 2014-2015. University of Antwerp.

2014. 鈥溾�楥ontrol Grabbing鈥� and small-scale agricultural intensification: emerging patterns of state-facilitated 鈥榓gricultural investment鈥� in Rwanda鈥� in Journal of Peasant Studies, 41 (3)

2009. 鈥淎griculture Policy and Local Grievances in Rural Rwanda: Growing Conflict?鈥� in Peace Review, Vol. 21.3, Summer 2009. Pg. 296 鈥� 303

Books
Leckie, Scott and Huggins, Chris (eds)

2015. Repairing Domestic Climate Displacement. London: Routledge.

2011. Conflict and Housing, Land, and Property Rights: A Handbook on Issues, Frameworks and Solutions. Cambridge University Press

Huggins, Chris and Clover, Jenny (eds)
2005. From the Ground Up: Land Rights, Conflict and Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa. Institute for Security Studies (Pretoria)

Book Chapters

2014. 鈥淟and grabbing and land tenure security in post-genocide Rwanda鈥�, in Ansoms, A. and Hilhorst, T. (eds) Losing Your Land: Dispossession in the Great Lakes. Martlesham, UK: James Currey.

Ansoms, An, Giuseppe Cioffo, Chris Huggins and Jude Murison
2014. 鈥淭he reorganisation of rural space in Rwanda: Habitat concentration, land consolidation, and collective marshland cultivation鈥�, in Ansoms, A. and Hilhorst, T. (eds) Losing Your Land: Dispossession in the Great Lakes. Martlesham, UK: James Currey.

Vlassenroot, Koen and Chris Huggins

2014 鈥淟e foncier et les dynamiques de conflit 脿 l鈥檈st de la r茅publique d茅mocratique du congo: d茅finir des options d鈥檌ntervention鈥� In D茅centralisation et espaces de pouvoir. Tervuren, Belgium: Royal Museum for Central Africa.

2011. 鈥淭he Presidential Land Commission: Undermining Land Law Reform鈥�, in Strauss, S and Waldorf, L. (eds) Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence. University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. Pg. 252-266

2010. 鈥淪hades of Grey: Post-Conflict Land Policy Reform in the Great Lakes Region鈥�, in Ward Anseeuw and Chris Alden (eds), The Struggle over Land in Africa: Conflicts, Politics & Change. The Human Sciences Research Council (Pretoria) 2010. Pg. 37 – 52

2009. 鈥淧eacekeeping and HLP rights in the Great Lakes Region of Africa: Burundi, Rwanda, and DR Congo鈥� in Scott Leckie (ed) Housing, Land and Property Rights in Post-Conflict United Nations and other Peace Operations. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pg. 179 鈥� 219

2009. 鈥淭ransitional Justice, Land Tenure Reform, and Development鈥� in Pablo de Greiff and Roger Duthie, (eds), Transitional Justice and Development: Making Connections. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2009. Pg. 332 鈥� 374

2009. 鈥淟and in Return, Reintegration and Recovery Processes: Some Lessons from the Great Lakes Region of Africa鈥� in Pantuliano, S. (ed) Uncharted Territory: Land, Conflict and Humanitarian Action. Practical Action, 2009. Pg. 67 鈥� 93

2004. 鈥淐ommunal Conflicts in the Darfur Region, Western Sudan鈥�, in Deborah Nightingale, Rachel Nalumoso, and Elizabeth Gowa (eds) Africa Environment Outlook Case Studies: Human Vulnerability to Environmental Change. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme, 2004.
Pg. 1 – 9

Fellowship

Christopher Huggins has been awarded a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to hold at Laurier for his research examining the use of information communication technologies (ICTs) to promote climate change adaption in Africa. For more information, click

Policy and Research Reports

2014. Restrictions on Land Use Rights in Rwanda: Understanding the 鈥楤undle of Land Rights鈥� in Context. Focus on Land in Africa (FOLA) Brief.

2013. Consolidating land, consolidating control: State-facilitated 鈥榓gricultural investment鈥� through the 鈥楪reen Revolution鈥� in Rwanda. Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) Working Paper 16. Frisca, Szilard; Huggins, Chris; and Unruh, Jon

2012. Toolkit and Guidance for Preventing and Managing Land and Natural Resources Con铿俰ct. Brussels/Nairobi: EU-UN Partnership.

2011. A Historical Perspective on the 鈥楪lobal Land Rush鈥�. International Land Coalition

2010. Land, Identity and Power: Roots of Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. International Alert

2009. Historical and Contemporary Land Laws and their Impact on Indigenous peoples鈥� Land Rights in Rwanda. Forest People’s Programme