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AMAN-CMI: Political corruption in Palestine

Project | Nov 2018 - Dec 2019

This project is a collaboration between AMAN, the Coalition for Accountability & Integrity (TI Palestine) and CMI. In order to strengthen ...

Corruption, political corruption, Palestine

Clientelist politics. State formation and corruption in Palestine 1994-2000

CMI Report | Jan 2002

The state formation process in Palestine started after the Oslo agreements between Israel and Palestine in 1994, which established a Palestinian ...

Middle East: Palestine

The MUWATIN agreement (phase 4): Development, Security and Democracy in the Palestinian areas

Project | Dec 2007 - Dec 2013

Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, Ramallah/Palestine, and the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen/Norway, have ...

Palestine

Country Evaluation Brief: Palestine

Report in External Series | Jan 2017

The Occupied Palestinian Territories is one of the world’s most aid-dependent countries. Despite overall levels of aid falling since 2009, ...

Palestine

Taxation and State Formation in Palestine 1994-2000

Book Chapter | Jan 2004

This chapter looks at factors constraining the efforts of the Palestinian quasi-state to raise revenues during the period 1994-2000. It is argued ...

Taxation, state-formation, Palestine, Middle East: Palestine

Christians in Palestine: A threatened community?

CMI Brief | Dec 2012

Christian Palestinians constitute one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, and their presence in Palestine dates back ...

Palestine

Between Oslo and al-Aqsa. Taxation and state formation in Palestine 1994-2000

CMI Report | Jan 2002

The state formation process in Palestine during the period 1994-2000, in contrast to the European experience, was not related to inter-state ...

Middle East: Palestine

Where Now For Palestine: The Demise of the Two-State Solution

News | 11 Jan 2007

This collection critically revisits the concept of the 'two-state solution' and maps the effects of local and global political changes on both Palestinian people and politics.

Palestine

The MUWATIN agreement (phase 3): State building and rent-seeking in Palestine

Project | Jan 2002 - Dec 2004

Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, is a leading research institute, think-tank, and lobbyist on democracy in Palestine. ...

Middle East: Palestine

State Formation in Palestine: Viability and Governance During a Social Transformation

Edited Book | Jan 2004

The crisis-ridden progress in Palestinian state formation since the signing of the Oslo Agreements raises important questions about reform priorities ...

Middle East: Palestine

The Great Escape? Converging Refugee Crises in Tyre, Lebanon

Journal Article | Jan 2018

This article analyses the convergence of two refugee crises, Palestine (1948-present) and Syria (2012-present), having brought old and new refugees ...

urban refugees, Syria, Lebanon, Tyre, emigration, displacement, Lebanon, Syria

Women, Water and Memory: Recasting Lives in Palestine

Book | Jan 2009

This book tells a different story about water. Against the backdrop of the end of the Ottoman Empire to the Palestinian uprisings, old Palestinian ...

Hamas and Palestinian Statehood

Book Chapter | Jan 2007

The Islamic Resistance Movement's (Hamas) big win in the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) marks the end of Fatah's political ...

Peace , Conflict, Political development, Elections, Economic conditions, Economic policy, Middle East: Israel, Palestine

Palestinian State-formation: Prospects and Challenges. Report from a Symposium at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway 24-25 May 2004

CMI Report | Jan 2004

The CMI - Muwatin symposium, held in Bergen on 24-25 May 2004, addressed both internal and external challenges to Palestinian state-formation. ...

State formation, Palestine

PNA Political Institutions and the Future of State Formation

Book Chapter | Jan 2004

PNA Political Institutions and the Future of State Formation Inge Amundsen and Basem Ezbidi State f

Middle East: Palestine

Taxation during state formation. Lessons from Palestine, 1994-2000

Journal Article | Jan 2004

The article analyses factors constraining the Palestinian National Authority's (PNA) capacity to produce domestic revenues during the period ...

Taxation, tax administration, economic policy, institutions, state formation, foreign aid, Palestine, Israel, Middle-East

Knudsen Are John

Senior Researcher

Social anthropologist focusing on peace, conflict and forced migration in South Asia and the Middle East

Islamism, peacebuilding, post-conflict violence, retributive justice, honour killings, refugees and IDPs, forced migration, micro-foundations of conflict and violence, Asia: Pakistan, Middle East: Lebanon, Palestine, Syria (refugees, IDPs)

Berg Kjersti G.

Post-doctoral fellow

Middle East researcher working on the Palestine-Israel conflict, Palestinian refugees and international aid.

The Palestine conflict, Palestinian refugees, international aid, United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, refugee camps, Jerusalem, cultural heritage, historiography, West Bank, Gaza, Middle East, Palestinian politics, Israel, humanitarian assistance, water, , Palestine, Middle East

Hamas - between radicalism and pragmatism

News | 2 Mar 2015

In January 2006, Hamas won the parliamentary elections in Gaza. The road to power has been paved with ideological and organizational changes. What was once a mere militia is now a crucial actor in Palestinian domestic politics, as well as in Palestinian-Israeli relations.

Women, War and Welfare in Jerusalem

Event | 25 Oct 2010

Dar al-Tifi al-Arabi is the largest Palestinian orphanage providing education for more than 1500 pupils. Nefissa Naguib has made a film about the woman who founded it, and how she and her successors fill in the gaps when the state is unable to perform the function as provider of adequate welfare.

Israel, Palestine