Academic Positions
| Since May 2020 | Rhineland-Palatinate Peace Academy, RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Postdoc |
| Since April 2014 | Hagen Distance Learning University, Germany, Lecturer |
| January 2018 – March 2018 | Free University of Berlin, Germany, Visiting Researcher in the GLOCON Project |
| April 2017 – September 2017 | Department of History and African Studies, Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Visiting Scholar |
| April 2016 – December 2017 | Heinrich Böll Foundation, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Visiting Scholar |
| Oct. 2013 – Mar. 2016 | Chair of International Relations & Sustainable Development, University of Münster (Prof. Doris Fuchs), Research Associate |
Research Stays
| March 2018 – February 2019 | Further research in Sierra Leone |
| March 2016 – September 2017 | Resistance to Land Investments in Postwar Cambodia and Sierra Leone |
| March 2012 – June 2012 | Needs and Conflict Analysis in Rural Negros, Philippines |
| Dec. 2011 – Feb. 2012 | Large-Scale Land Investments and Pastoralism, Ethiopia |
| September 2011 – November 2011 | Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia: The Out-of-Camp Approach, Ethiopia |
| September 2009 – February 2010 | Sustainable Solutions for Burundian Refugees from 1972, Tanzania |
Education
| Jan. 2014 – June 2019 | Doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Politics, WWU Münster |
| Oct. 2010 – Apr. 2013 | M.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies, Philipps University of Marburg |
| April 2008 – September 2010 | B.A. in Sociology/Political Science, University of Rostock |
| Oct. 2006 – Sept. 2009 | B.A. in Social Sciences, University of Rostock (Focus: Demography & Economics) |
Research project
- Tug of War: Customary and State Actors in Land Reform and their Impact on Human Security in Post-Conflict Societies (Start September 2022, Gerda Henkel Foundation)
Main research areas
- International relations/peace and conflict research
- Peacebuilding and conflict transformation
- Struggles over land and resources
- Social movements
- Non-state armed groups
- Development policy and rural development
- Regional focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia
Theories
- Political ecology
- Post-structuralism and assemblage
- Post-liberal peace
Methods
- Political Ethnography/Ethnographic Peace Research
- Expert interviews
- Focus group interviews
- Qualitative content analysis
Event organization
"Land in Post-Conflict Settings", webinar organized and moderated for the Land Portal, 25 June 2019.
Contested Nature - Conflicts on Large-Scale Land and Resource Deals, Workshop of the AFK Working Group "Nature, Resources and Conflicts". Berlin, January 09, 2015 (with Louisa Prause, FU Berlin).
- Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (Seminar), University of Koblenz-Landau
- The Political Ecology of Global Land Grabbing (online seminar), Fernuni Hagen
- Social Movements, Protest and Resistance in the Global South, (reading course), WWU Münster
- Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies (standard course), WWU Münster
- The political economy of global land grabbing (reading course), WWU Münster
- Sustainable Fisheries and the EU (online seminar), Fernuni Hagen
Articles and book contributions
Hennings, Anne (2019): From Bullets to Banners and Back Again? The Ambivalent Role of Ex-Combatants in Contested Land Deals in Sierra Leone. In: Africa Spectrum. Vol. 54. No. 1. pp. 22-43.
Hennings, Anne; Dietz, Kristina (2019): Territorialization. In: Brunner, Jan; Dobelmann, Anna; Kirst, Sarah; Prause, Louisa: Dictionary of Land and Resource Conflicts. Marburg: transcript.
Hennings, Anne (2019): The Dark Underbelly of Land Struggles: The Instrumentalization of Female Activism and Emotional Resistance in Cambodia. In: Critical Asian Studies. Vol. 51. No. 1. pp. 103-119.
Hennings, Anne (2018): Plantation Assemblages and Spaces of Contested Development in Sierra Leone and Cambodia. In: Conflict, Security & Development. Vol. 18. No. 6. pp. 521-546.
Hennings, Anne (2018): With Soymilk to the Khmer Rouge: Challenges of Researching Ex-Combatants in Post-War Contexts. In: International Peacekeeping. Vol. 25. No. 5. pp. 630-652.
Fuchs, Doris; Hennings, Anne (2018): Governance by Contract From a Perspective of Power: The Case of Land Grabbing. In: Cuttler, A. Claire; Dietz, Thomas: The Politics of Private Transnational Governance by Contract. London/New York: Routledge. S. 57-76.
Hennings, Anne; Fuchs, D. (2017): Contracts, Power, and Land Grabbing. In: Cutler, Claire A.; Dietz, Thomas: The Politics of Private Transnational Governance by Contract. London: Routledge. S. 57-76.
Hennings, Anne (2016): Assembling Resistance Against Large-Scale Land Deals: Challenges for Conflict Transformation in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. In: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies. Vol. 9. No. 1. pp. 33-52.
Hennings, Anne (2016): The Conflict Potential of Exclusive Land Grabbing Practices. A challenge for regional peace. In: Journal of Peace and Conflict Research. Vol. 5. No. 2. pp. 221-248.
Hennings, Anne (2016): Land Acquisitions in Post-Conflict Countries. In: Thompson, P.; Kaplan, D.: Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer.
Hennings, Anne; Schramm, Annette (2015): Who owns the land? Land grabbing from an African perspective. In: Science and Peace. Vol. 1. pp. 28-30.
Working papers, online articles, reviews
Hennings, Anne (2019): Seeing Plantations as Complex and Contested Spaces. Resources and Conflict-Blog. 19.09.2019.
Hennings, Anne; Engwicht, Nina; Prause, Louisa (2019): How do we research conflicts? Challenges of ethical field research in the context of resource conflicts. CCS Working Paper Series. Marburg.
Hennings, Anne (2018): Women in Land Struggles: The Implications of Female Activism and Emotional Resistance for Gender Equity. GLOCON Working Paper Series. Berlin.
Hennings, Anne (2018): Review: Bettina Engels & Kristina Dietz (eds.): Contested Extractivism, Society and the State. Struggles over Mining and Land. Periphery - Politics, Economy, Culture, 38(3), 492-494.
Hennings, Anne (2018): Review: Violent Neoliberalism. Development, Discourse, and Dispossession in Cambodia. Simon Springer, published in London: Palgrave Macmillan. SOJOURN - Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 33 (3): 723 - 726.
Hennings, Anne (2017): The Dark Underbelly of Land Struggles: Women at the Front of Protests. Heinrich Böll Foundation. 27.02.2017.
Hennings, Anne; Dietz, Kristina; Engels, Bettina; Prause, Louisa (2017): Editorial: nature, resources, conflicts: struggles over the global valorization of land and raw materials. PROKLA 189, PP. 510-515.
Hennings, Anne (2017): A Buddhist, a Christian and a Hindu on the Road: Lessons Learned From an Unusual Fieldtrip to the Cambodian Borderlands. In: Storer, L. & Shoemaker, A.: The Challenges Undisclosed. Reflections on Invisible Experiences of Doctoral Fieldwork, pp. 26-29.
Hennings, Anne (2016): Review: Theories in spatial and urban research. Introductions. Jürgen Oßenbrügge & Anne Vogelpohl, published in Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot. Periphery 141: 123-125.
Hennings, Anne; Prause, Louisa (2015): Contested Nature, Contested Terms: Conflicts Around Large-Scale Land Use Change. ZeFKo 4 (1): 162-171.