CMI Research by Geographical Region

The Middle East and Northern Africa

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Map: CMI projects on The Middle East and Northern Africa

Projects

Party Politics in Palestine: Hamas and the Politicization of Resistance
Start: Jan. 2010 (Current)
Keywords: Hamas, political Islam, political party
Geography: Palestine, Syria, Lebanon

Forced Migrants, Human Rights and Lasting Peace
Start: Jan. 2010 (Current)
Keywords: forced migration, IDPs, refugees, peacebuilding
Geography: Lebanon, Cyprus, Afghanistan/Pakistsn

Conflict and Co-existence in Lebanon
Start: Oct. 2009 (Current)
Keywords: Lebanon, post-conflict violence, peacebuilding
Geography: Lebanon

Women and Peacebuilding in Sudan
Start: Apr. 2009 (Completed)
Keywords: Islamism, elite, grasroots, women, peacebuilding, state, civil society
Geography: Sudan

Documentary film: Nahr el-Bared Talks Back
Start: Jan. 2008 (Completed)
Keywords: Forced migration, refugees, IDPs
Geography: Lebanon

The MUWATIN agreement (phase 4)
Start: Dec. 2007 (Current)
Geography: Palestine

The Moderation of Islamist Movements
Start: Jan. 2007 (Current)
Keywords: Islamism, the state, political institutionalization, moderation
Geography: Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Sudan.

Religious Dialogue and Peace-Building in Sudan
Start: Dec. 2006 (Completed)
Keywords: Inter-religious dialouge, civil society, Islam, peace and conflict
Geography: Sudan

Violence in the post-conflict state
Start: Aug. 2006 (Current)
Keywords: peacebuilding, violence, armed conflict, post-war reconstruction
Geography: Africa: Angola, Democratic Rep. of Congo. Asia: Afghanistan. Middle East: Lebanon.

Politics of Faith
Start: Jan. 2006 (Current)
Keywords: Religion, the state, secularisation, political institutionalisation,political mobilization, development, religious revival, conflict, violence and peace.
Geography: Middle East and Northern Africa: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Sudan. Asia: Indonesia and Pakistan

The Middle East and Northern Africa
News

Peace - the distance between wars

Afghans question the liberal peace, the democratization and the development projects that have set the course for Afghanistan's transition from war to peace. Read more

Forced Migrants, Human Rights and Lasting Peace

This project will study how human rights protection for forced migrants (refugees and internally displaced persons, IDPs) can help secure a lasting peace in three countries: Lebanon, Cyprus, and Pakistan/Afghanistan. Read more

Bergen researchers comment on the elections in Sudan

This is the first video from the panel session on Sudan Mai 12 2010. Read more

A Momentous Year

2009 was a momentuous year at CMI. We moved to the city centre. We opened a new arena for research communication: Bergen Research Centre for International Development. And in the same year, we achieved a publication record with the highest number of peer reviewed articels ever. Read the online version. Read more

20 May
Nahr el-Bared talks back

On 20th May 2007, fighting broke out between the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and a new militia group calling itself Fatah al-Islam based in Nahr el-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli, North Lebanon. After 15-weeks of intense bombardment, the camp was reduced to rubble and more than 30,000 residents made homeless. Despite plans to rebuild the ruined camp, the displaced families live under dire conditions and face an uncertain future. Read more

Recent publications

Bargaining with patriarchy in Sudan: The art of reimagining Islam Liv Tønnessen (2010)

Learning to build a sustainable peace: Ownership and everyday peacebuilding Ole Jacob Sending (ed.) (2010)

Sudan Peace Agreements: Current Challenges and Future Prospects Abdel Ghaffar Mohamed Ahmad (2010)

The Politics of Women's Representation in Sudan: Debating Women's Rights in Islam from the Elites to the Grassroots Liv Tønnessen, Hilde Granås Kjøstvedt (2010)

The Paradox of Representation in Sudan: Muslim Women's Diverging Agendas Liv Tønnessen, Hilde Granås Kjøstvedt (2010)

Recent projects and programmes

Party Politics in Palestine: Hamas and the Politicization of Resistance

Forced Migrants, Human Rights and Lasting Peace

Conflict and Co-existence in Lebanon

Women and Peacebuilding in Sudan

Documentary film: Nahr el-Bared Talks Back

Recent library acquisitions

Corporate security responsibility? - corporate governance contributions to peace and security in zones of conflict edited by Nicole Deitelhoff and Klaus Dieter Wolf
Conflicts, National security, Peace, Case studies, Rwanda, Congo DR, Nigeria, Israel, Palestine

Hamas - the Islamic resistance movement Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell
Politics, Political movements, Islam, Hamas, Palestine, Middle East