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.