CMI Staff
Dr Are John Knudsen
Thematic research group:
Peace, Conflict and the State
Keywords:
Islamism, peacebuilding, post-conflict violence, retributive justice, honour killings, refugees, forced migration
Geographic keywords:
Southern and Central Asia
The Middle East and Northern Africa
Asia: Pakistan
Middle East: Lebanon, Palestine.
Senior Researcher
E-mail: are.knudsen@cmi.no
Phone: +47 47938027 Mob: +47 92494898
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Are Knudsen is a social anthropologist with twenty years research experience in South Asia and the Middle East. Knudsen is scientific co-ordinator of for CMI's research co-operation with Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy (www.muwatin.org) and was Research Director leading the PCS-group from 2006-09. Knudsen is the author of Violence and Belonging: Land Love and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan (NIAS Press, 2009) and has published articles on contested forms of traditional justice ("honour killings") in Pakistan, Islamism among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and the Palestinian Hamas. Knudsen is currently involved in research on conflict and co-existence in post-civil war Lebanon, Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and the democratic turn within Hamas, all funded by the Research Council of Norway. With Sari Hanafi (AUB), Are Knudsen is editor of Palestinian Refugees: Identity, Space and Place in the Levant, Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, forthcoming December 2010.
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Current and recently completed projects:
Linking people and nature: Mountain protected areas in South Asia
Start: Jan. 1999 (Initiation)
Forced Migrants, Human Rights and Lasting Peace
Start: Jan. 2010 (Current)
Keywords: forced migration, IDPs, refugees, peacebuilding
Geography: Lebanon, Cyprus, Afghanistan/Pakistsn
Party Politics in Palestine: Hamas and the Politicization of Resistance
Start: Jan. 2010 (Current)
Keywords: Hamas, political Islam, political party
Geography: Palestine, Syria, Lebanon
Conflict and Co-existence in Lebanon
Start: Oct. 2009 (Current)
Keywords: Lebanon, post-conflict violence, peacebuilding
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.
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
Precarious peacebuilding: Post-war Lebanon, 1990-2005
Start: Jan. 2005 (Current)
Keywords: civil war, peacebuilding,
Geography: Lebanon, Middle East
Global Moments in the Levant
Start: Jan. 2005 (Current)
Geography: Levant (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine)
Peacebuilding
Start: Jan. 2005 (Current)
Courts and the Poor
Start: Jan. 2005 (Current)
Keywords: Poverty, social transformation, social rights, courts, judiciary, legal system, legal culture, access to justice
Geography: Latin America; Argentia, Chile, Brazil, Colombia; Africa; South Africa, Malawi; Asia; India, Pakistan, Lebanon
Documentary film: Nahr el-Bared Talks Back
Start: Jan. 2008 (Completed)
Keywords: Forced migration, refugees, IDPs
Geography: Lebanon
Norad: Conference - From Exodus to Exile (Muwatin)
Start: Apr. 2007 (Completed)
| Publications | Publication search: Are John Knudsen |
Publications by category:
Books and Anthologies
Violence and belonging: Land, love and lethal conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan
Knudsen, Are John (2009)
Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Monograph series no. 115) 224 p.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
From refugees to revolutionaries: Camp-based Palestinians in post-civil war Lebanon
Knudsen, Are (2010)
in Leif Manger and Øystein S. LaBianca: Global moments in the Levant. A Unifob Global research project. Bergen: Bric pp. 142-151
Widening the protection gap: The 'politics of citizenship' for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, 1948-2008
Knudsen, Are John (2009)
in Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 22, no 1 pp. 51-73
Hamas and Palestinian Statehood
Knudsen, Are and Basem Ezbidi (2007)
in Jamil Hilal ed.: Where Now for Palestine: The Demise of the Two-State Solution. London: Zed Books pp. 188-210
Crescent and Sword: The Hamas Enigma
Knudsen, Are John (2005)
in Third World Quarterly vol. 26 no. 8 pp. 1373-1388
Crescent and Sword: the Hamas Enigma
Knudsen, Are (2005)
in Third World Quarterly vol. 26 no. 8 pp. 1373-1388
Traditional (In)justice: Honour Killings in Pakistan
Knudsen, Are (2005)
in Lone Lindholt and Sten Schaumburg-Müller, eds.: Human Rights in Development Yearbook 2003: Human Rights and Local/Living Law. Leiden/Boston/Oslo: Martinus Nijhoff Publisher / Nordic Human Rights Publications pp. 105-126
Islamism in the Diaspora: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Knudsen, Are (2005)
in Journal of Refugee Studies vol. 18 no. 2 June pp. 216-234
Med rett til å drepe: Æresdrap i Midtøsten
Knudsen, Are John (2004)
in Babylon - magasin om Midtøsten vol. 1 pp. 86-91
Conservation and controversy in the Karakoram: Khunjerab National Park, Pakistan
Knudsen, Are (1999)
in Journal of Political Ecology vol. 6 0 p.
State invention and community protest: Nature conservation in Hunza, North Pakistan
Knudsen, Are (1995)
in Ole Bruun & Arne Kalland (eds.): Asian perceptions of nature: A critical approach. Richmond, Surrey: Cuzon Press pp. 103-125
Reports
Flyktninger: Libanons indre Fiende?
Knudsen, Are John (2007)
Oslo: Norsk utenrikspolitisk institutt (Hvor Hender Det? no.4 2007-2008) 4 p.
Peacebuilding strategies for Afghanistan. Part II: A decade of peacebuilding: lessons for Afghanistan
Suhrke, Astri, Arve Ofstad, Are Knudsen (2002)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute 64 p.
Boundaries of belongingness in the Palas valley, Pakistan
Knudsen, Are (2001)
Bergen: University of Bergen 272 p.
Socio-economic effects of training programs for refugees. An evaluation of Norwegian Refugee Council's and Norwegian Church Aid's income generating programs in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Ask, Karin, Are Knudsen and Astri Suhrke (1993)
Oslo: Norwegian Refugee Council 58 p.
CMI Reports
Norwegian NGOs in Post-Taliban Afghanistan: Review and Lessons Learned
Knudsen, Are with Hamidullah Natiq and Sadiqa Basiri (2005)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2005: 11) 59 p.
Political Islam in the Middle East
Knudsen, Are John (2003)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2003:3) 32 p.
Peacebuilding: Lessons for Afghanistan?
Suhrke, Astri, with Kristian Berg Harpviken, Are Knudsen, Arve Ofstad, Arne Strand (2002)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2002:9) 117 p.
Political Islam in South Asia
Knudsen, Are (2002)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2002:14)
Living with the commons: Local institutions for natural resource management
Knudsen, Are (1995)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1995:2) 132 p.
CMI Working Papers
The Law, the Loss and the Lives of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Knudsen, Are (2007)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2007: 1) 20 p.
Hamas and the Quest for Palestinian Statehood
Knudsen, Are and Basem Ezbidi (2006)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2006: 14) 14 p.
Precarious Peacebuilding: Post-war Lebanon, 1990-2005
Knudsen, Are (2005)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2005: 12)
Crescent and sword: The Hamas enigma
Knudsen, Are (2004)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2004: 14) 15 p.
License to kill: Honour killings in Pakistan
Knudsen, Are (2004)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2004: 1) 24 p.
Islamism in the diaspora: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Knudsen, Are (2003)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2003:10) 23 p.
Beyond cultural relativism? Tim Ingold's
Knudsen, Are (1998)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 1998:7)
Land dispute and death enmity in a Kohistani mountain village
Knudsen, Are (1998)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 1998:9)
Mountain protected areas in Northern Pakistan: The case of Khunjerab National Park
Knudsen, Are (1997)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 1997:17)
Deforestation and entrpeneurship in the North West Frontier Province, Pakistan
Knudsen, Are (1996)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 1996:11) 16 p.
Income-generating programmes in Pakistand and Malawi: A comparative perspective
Knudsen, Are and Kate Halvorsen (1996)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 1996:3) 16 p.
Other External Publications
Localised Islam in Northern Pakistan
Knudsen, Are John (2008)
in Nias Nytt No. 3 December p.32
Fra Krig til Fred, 1990-2005: Libanon etter Taif-avtalen
Knudsen, Are (2005)
in Babylon - Norsk Tidsskrift for Midtøsten vol. 3 no. 1 pp. 122-127
Newspaper Op-Eds
Libanons indre fiende
Knudsen, Are John (2007)
Bergen Tidende 3. Juni 2007
Fra post-konflikt til klasebomber
Knudsen, Are John (2006)
Sunnmørsposten
Hva skjer med Libanon?
Knudsen, Are (2006)
Bergens Tidende 28. oktober 2006
Fra Attentat til Ambassadeangrep - Libanon ett År etter Drapet på Hariri
Knudsen, Are (2006)
Bergens Tidende 16.02.06
Rafiq Hariri - Milliadær og Martyr
Knudsen, Are (2005)
Bergens Tidende 20. januar
