Lebanon
The Syrian civil war has displaced more than one million Syrians as refugees to Lebanon. We study the country’s handling of the refugee crisis and the new security challenges caused by the Syrian civil war.
Completed projects
SuperCamp: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East
Hybrid paths to resistance in the Muslim world: Iraq, Lebanon, Libya and Mali
BABELS - an international migration project
Life Skills in Non-Formal Contexts for Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries
Women's Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World
Politics of Faith
Situating (In-)Security: A United Army for a Divided Country
Transformations in the Arab World
Party Politics in Palestine: Hamas and the Politicization of Resistance
Gendering Faith
Documentary film: Nahr el-Bared Talks Back
Forced Migrants, Human Rights and Lasting Peace
Conflict and Co-existence in Lebanon
The Moderation of Islamist Movements
Violence in the post-conflict state
Global Moments in the Levant
Threat of destabilisation
The many terrorist attacks in Beirut, popular protests and campaigns against the government (#youstink), underline the general situation of state failure and threat of destabilisation.
Our research on Lebanon focus on old and new refugee crises and how they intersect. New research also targets secondary migration from Lebanon towards Europe. The refugee crisis has deepened internal divisions present since 2005 and led to a general paralysis in government. We study the Lebanese Army’s role in containing the deteriorating security situation, as well as how post-civil war violence, political violence and urban conflict affect a deeply-divided society. Future gas and oil exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean can boost state revenues, but also fuel conflict and corruption.