Gerrit Jan Huizer (1929–1999) was a Dutch writer and scholar. He was born in 1929 in Arnhem. He studied at the Municipal University of Amsterdam. Starting in 1955, he lived and worked in various Third World countries for nearly two decades, in places as varied as China, El Salvador, Chile and Mexico. He worked for the UN Economic Commission and for the ILO in Latin America and Southeast Asia. This period gave rise to the book ''Peasant Unrest in Latin America'' which was published in Spanish and Dutch, and also in English as part of the

Pelican Latin American Library The Pelican Latin American Library (PLAL) was a specialist series of books published by Penguin Books UK in the 1970s. The series was inaugurated in the wake of the success of another Penguin imprint, the Penguin African Library. The general editor ...

series. After returning to the Netherlands in the early 1970s, Huizer ran the Third World Center (DWC) and taught at the

Catholic University of Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century ...

(KUN). He served as a member of many councils, boards and foundations. Later in life, he wrote the book ''Learning from the Third World. Crisis as a Challenge'' (1992). He retired from the KUN in October 1999 and died the following month in

Doorwerth Doorwerth is a village in the eastern Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Renkum, Gelderland, about 8 km west of Arnhem and about 100 km southeast of Amsterdam. History The valley of the Seelbeek has been in residential u ...

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