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 Carleton University\u2019s 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).\u00a0 He has consulted with U.N. agencies, bilateral donors, policy think-tanks, International Non-Governmental Organizations, and for-profit institutions.<\/p>\n
He has contributed directly to major international reports such as the Annual Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Housing<\/em> to the UN Human Rights Council. His co-edited textbook on Conflict and Housing, Land<\/em> and Property Rights<\/em> 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 \u201cbest science in the world\u201d and as having “shaped scholarship in the field of global health in the post Second World War years”.<\/p>\n Journal Articles<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 2015. \u201cLand-Grabbing, Agricultural Investment and Land Reform in the Democratic Republic Of Congo\u201d 2014. \u201c\u2018Control Grabbing\u2019 and small-scale agricultural intensification: emerging patterns of state-facilitated \u2018agricultural investment\u2019 in Rwanda\u201d in Journal of Peasant Studies, 41 (3)<\/p>\n 2009. \u201cAgriculture Policy and Local Grievances in Rural Rwanda: Growing Conflict?\u201d in Peace Review, Vol. 21.3, Summer 2009. Pg. 296 \u2013 303<\/p>\n Books<\/span><\/strong> 2015. Repairing Domestic Climate Displacement. London:<\/em> Routledge.<\/p>\n 2011. Conflict and Housing, Land, and Property Rights: A Handbook on Issues, Frameworks and Solutions.<\/em> Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n Huggins, Chris<\/strong> and Clover, Jenny (eds) Book Chapters<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 2014. \u201cLand grabbing and land tenure security in post-genocide Rwanda\u201d, in Ansoms, A. and Hilhorst, T. (eds) Losing Your Land: Dispossession in the Great Lakes<\/em>. Martlesham, UK: James Currey.<\/p>\n Ansoms, An, Giuseppe Cioffo, Chris Huggins<\/strong> and Jude Murison <\/p>\n Vlassenroot, Koen and Chris Huggins 2011. \u201cThe Presidential Land Commission: Undermining Land Law Reform\u201d, in Strauss, S and Waldorf, L. (eds) Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence.<\/em> University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. Pg. 252-266<\/p>\n 2010. \u201cShades of Grey: Post-Conflict Land Policy Reform in the Great Lakes Region\u201d, in Ward Anseeuw and Chris Alden (eds), The Struggle over Land in Africa: Conflicts, Politics & Change.<\/em> The Human Sciences Research Council (Pretoria) 2010. Pg. 37 – 52<\/p>\n 2009. \u201cPeacekeeping and HLP rights in the Great Lakes Region of Africa: Burundi, Rwanda, and DR Congo\u201d in Scott Leckie (ed) Housing, Land and Property Rights in Post-Conflict United Nations and other Peace Operations.<\/em> Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pg. 179 \u2013 219<\/p>\n 2009. \u201cTransitional Justice, Land Tenure Reform, and Development\u201d in Pablo de Greiff and Roger Duthie, (eds), Transitional Justice and Development: Making Connections.<\/em> New York: Social Science Research Council, 2009. Pg. 332 \u2013 374<\/p>\n 2009. \u201cLand in Return, Reintegration and Recovery Processes: Some Lessons from the Great Lakes Region of Africa\u201d in Pantuliano, S. (ed) Uncharted Territory: Land, Conflict and Humanitarian Action.<\/em> Practical Action, 2009. Pg. 67 \u2013 93<\/p>\nSelected Publications:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nL’Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire<\/em> 2014-2015. University of Antwerp.<\/p>\n
\nLeckie, Scott and Huggins, Chris<\/strong> (eds)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n2005. From the Ground Up: Land Rights, Conflict and Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/em> Institute for Security Studies (Pretoria)<\/p>\n
\n2014. \u201cThe reorganisation of rural space in Rwanda: Habitat concentration, land consolidation, and collective marshland cultivation\u201d, in Ansoms, A. and Hilhorst, T. (eds) Losing Your Land: Dispossession in the Great Lakes. Martlesham, UK: James Currey.<\/p>\n
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\n2014 \u201cLe foncier et les dynamiques de conflit \u00e0 l\u2019est de la r\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du congo: d\u00e9finir des options d\u2019intervention\u201d In D\u00e9centralisation et espaces de pouvoir. Tervuren,<\/em> Belgium: Royal Museum for Central Africa.<\/p>\n