I am an academic-practitioner who specializes in post-war and post-crisis land tenure reform, housing land and property rights, and political ecology. Above all, I am a researcher, consultant, educator, and advocate dedicated to using rigorous field-data to inform and influence policies and programmes that address:
I am a graduate of the United World College of the Atlantic, Macalester College (BA), and McGill University (MA). I am currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Geography at McGill University, where my research examines the evolution of statutory and ‘neo-customary’ tenure systems within the complex, legally pluralistic, and highly variable environments of post-conflict contexts.
I currently hold research fellowships at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Indian Ocean World Research Centre, and Sudd Institute. Additionally, I have worked extensively with multi- and bi-lateral donors, international NGOs, and civil society organizations in conflict-affected environments throughout Africa, the Middle East, and South East Asia.
My passion is the development and implementation of rigorous, data-driven policy research in conflict-affected environments. Although I continue to hold a research position at McGill University, I spend most of my time designing and implementing research-based consulting projects that focus on land tenure reforms, land-related disputes, resettlement and restitution of HLP, and transitional justice in post-conflict and post-crisis contexts.
The main goal of my consulting work is to use rigorous and reproducible qualitative and quantitative data to inform the development and implementation of effective policies and programmes in complex and fluid environments.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
The World Bank
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA)
Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
Environmental Law Institute (ELI)
South Sudan Law Society (SSLS)
Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Keywords: HLP, Land-related disputes, Land reform, Conflict, Displacement, South Sudan
Keywords: HLP, Land-related disputes, Sustainable returns, Conflict, Côte d’Ivoire
Keywords: HLP, Land-related disputes, Conflict, Displacement, South Sudan
Keywords: Conflict, Displacement, Customary authorities, South Sudan
Keywords: HLP, Land-related disputes, Conflict, Concessions, FDI, Liberia
Keywords: Conflict, Displacement, Transitional justice, South Sudan
Keywords: Conflict, Displacement, Transitional justice, South Sudan
Keywords: Conflict, Displacement, Transitional justice, South Sudan
Keywords: HLP, Land-related disputes, Conflict, Displacement, Transitional justice, Iraq
Keywords: HLP, Land-related disputes, Conflict, Displacement, Transitional justice, Iraq
Keywords: HLP, Land-related disputes, Pastoralism, Conflict, Displacement, ICTs, Global
Keywords: Land-related disputes, Conflict, Concessions, FDI, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Tanzania
Keywords: HLP, Land-related disputes, Conflict, Displacement, Monitoring & evaluation, ICTs, Mali
Keywords: Monitoring & evaluation, Displacement, Wash, Shelter, Food Security, Education, Global
Keywords: Monitoring & evaluation, Environment, Global
Keywords: Land-related disputes, Natural resources, Conflict, Displacement, Global
Land tenure reform, Land tenure regularization, Housing land and property rights, Forced migration, Post-conflict / crisis development, Mass claims procedures, Natural resource management, Large-scale land acquisitions, Critical institutionalism, Political economy, Political ecology
Pritchard, M.F. 2018. Forthcoming.
Pritchard, M.F. 2017. Forthcoming
Unruh, J.D., M. Frilander, M.F. Pritchard, E. Savage, C. Wade, P. Nair, A. Adenwala, L.Lee, M. Mally, and I.Tanner.
Unruh, J.D., E. Frank, and M.F. Pritchard. 2017. Stability: International Journal of Security & Development. 6(1): 15.
Deng, D.K., M.F. Pritchard, M. Sharma. Forthcoming.
Pritchard, M.F. 2017. Norwegian People’s Aid and the South Sudan Law Society: Juba, South Sudan.
Pritchard, M.F. 2017. Norwegian People’s Aid and the South Sudan Law Society: Juba, South Sudan.
Ng., L.C., D.K. Deng, B. Lopez, and M.F. Pritchard. 2017. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 52(6): 705-714.
Pritchard, M.F. 2016. Land Use Policy. 54: 264-275.
Deng, D.K., M.F. Pritchard, and M. Sharma. 2015. United States Agency for International Development (USAID): Washington, D.C.
Deng, D.K., B. Lopez, M.F. Pritchard, and L.C. Ng. 2015. United Nations Development Programme: Juba, South Sudan.
Isser, D., M.F. Pritchard, C. Anderson, J. Schott. 2015. The World Bank: Washington, D.C.
Pritchard, M.F. 2015. In Goldman, L., and H. Young (Eds). Livelihoods, Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. Earthscan.
Pritchard, M.F. 2014. Institute for the Study of International Development: Montreal, Q.C.
Unruh, J.D., J. Stanfield, M.F. Pritchard, A. Corriveau-Bourque, and I. Nelson. 2013. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region. 9(2): 208-226.
Pritchard, M.F. 2013. The World Bank: Washington, D.C.
Pritchard, M.F. 2013. Norwegian Refugee Council and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre: Abidjan and Geneva.
Pritchard, M.F. 2013. Journal of Political Ecology. 20: 361-375.
Pritchard, M.F. 2013. Land Use Policy. 30(1): 186-196.