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From a Temporary Emergency Shelter to an Urbanized Neighborhood: The Abu Shoak IDP Camp in North Dārfūr
Sudan Working Paper | Aug 2016
Introduction
In early 2003, two rebel movements (the Sudanese Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement) launched an insurgency ...
Khartoum, El-Fasher, IDP camp, Abu Shoak, camp, Sudan, Darfur
Decade of Despair: The Contested Rebuilding of the Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp, Lebanon, 2007–2017
Journal Article | Dec 2018
In mid-2007 the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli was destroyed by the Lebanese Army battling an insurgent Islamist group, Fatah al-Islam. ...
Lebanon, Palestinian refugees, refugee camps, rebuilding, post-civil war
Nahr el-Bared talks back
Event | 20 May 2010
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.
Palestine, Israel
Recapturing Refugee Camps: Hybrid Spaces of Humanitarianism
Journal Article | Nov 2016
Recent decades have seen a proliferation of refugee camps, and today the refugee camp is one of the most poignant manifestations of humanitarian ...
refugee camps, hybridity, humanitarianism
Protecting Civilians in Refugee Camps
Event | 22 May 2014
Rather than serving as civilian and humanitarian safe havens, refugee camps are notorious for their insecurity. When a violation occurs, to which actors shall responsibility be allocated?
SuperCamp
Project | Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
In 2015, more than one million migrants reached Europa in the largest movement of peoples since WWII. To prevent this, the EU and ...
Migration, Refugees, Middle East, humanitarianism, refugee camp, , Middle East, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey
Documentary film: Nahr el-Bared Talks Back
Project | Jan 2008 - Dec 2009
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 ...
Forced migration, refugees, IDPs, Lebanon
Syria's refugees in Lebanon: Brothers, burden and bone of contention
Book Chapter | Jan 2017
The Syrian civil war has displaced more than one million Syrians as refugees in Lebanon. Lebanon has not set up formal camps, but instituted ...
displacement, refugees, camps, non-camp, Lebanon, Syria
(In-)Security in a space of exception: The destruction of the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon
Book Chapter | Oct 2010
(In-)Security in a space of exception: The destruction of the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon
Lebanon, refugee camp, Nahr al-Bared, displacement
The unending temporary. United Nations Relief and works agency and the politics of humanitarian assistance to Palestinian refugee camps 1950- 2012
Doctoral Thesis | Jan 2015
The unending temporary. United Nations Relief and works agency and the politics of humanitarian assi
UNRWA, Palestinian refugees, humanitarian assistance, refugee camps
Campements, abris et squats: Des zones floues où vivent les réfugiés syriens au Liban (Camps, shelters, squats: Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s twilight zones)
Journal Article | Jan 2017
In Lebanon, self-settled Syrian refugees live under very difficult, poor and unsanitary conditions in camps, shelters, and squatted buildings. ...
displacement, emplacement, urban refugees, dwellings, Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanon, Syria
U.S president Obama UN speech on Sudan
News | 6 Oct 2010
Remarks by U.S. President Obama in a Ministerial Meeting on Sudan.
Sudan
Camp, ghetto, zinco, slum: Lebanon’s transitional zones of emplacement
Journal Article | Jan 2016
Following six decades of forced residential immobility, Lebanon is the quintessential example of long-term encampment of Palestinian refugees. ...
refugee camps, , Lebanon
Protection and hujmanitarian assistance in the refugee camps in Zaire: The problem of security
Book Chapter | Jan 1999
Protection and hujmanitarian assistance in the refugee camps in Zaire: The problem of security Kate
Covering up a massacre in Angola?
News | 19 May 2015
In mid-April 2015, news emerged about the killing of nine police-men in Angola's Huambo province. The incident involved the police and members of Juliano Kalupeteca's "Light of the World" religious sect. In the following days, grizzling reports emerged of a massacre of perhaps hundreds of sect members. We do not yet know the truth. Angola's government appears to do its utmost to prevent knowledge of it to transpire. Will the international community remain passive?
Angola
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
Islamism in the diaspora: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2003
In recent years there has been increasing academic interest in Islamism in the Middle East, not least in Palestinian Islamism championed by ...
Islam, , Refugees, Palestinians, Lebanon, Middle East: Lebanon
The Law, the Loss and the Lives of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2007
Lebanon has been a reluctant host to Palestinian refugees since 1948. A mainstay of Lebanese policies vis-à-vis the Palestinian refugees ...
Palestinians, Refugees, Human rights, International refugee law, Middle East, Lebanon, Palestine
Islamism in the Diaspora: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Journal Article | Jan 2005
In recent years there has been increasing academic interest in Islamism in the Middle East, not least in Palestinian Islamism championed by ...
Islamism, political Islam, refugees, Jihad, , Middle East: Lebanon
SuperLeiren
Project | Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
I dette bokprosjektet viser jeg hvordan Midtøsten konstrueres som en flyktningeregion i tre historiske epoker fra 1850 fram til dag og nå kan ...
flyktningleirer, flyktninger, bokmanus, Midtøsten, flyktningekatastrofe, MENA, Middle East, Midtøsten