The land tenure dynamics in the post-conflict Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh

This paper analyses the post-conflict dynamics of land tenure in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh.The key argument is that the post-conflict CHT is a hybrid land context, apparently where land tenure is insecure, where the ownership is contested between tribal and settler households and where large-scale acquisition and incremental land grabbing is occurring in absence of effective tenure governance.The access, control and transfer of land rights have been core of the violence in CHT.The paper further argues that the competition between customary landowners and settlers seeking customary lands for developing economic projects make the land context more complex.This changing idea of land control is associated with (dis)possession dynamics.The role of negotiation in market, use of violence and resistance are also linked with land dynamics.