Are John Knudsen
Current projects
SuperCamp: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East
Hybrid paths to resistance in the Muslim world: Iraq, Lebanon, Libya and Mali
Completed projects
BABELS - an international migration project
Life Skills in Non-Formal Contexts for Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries
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
Forced Migrants, Human Rights and Lasting Peace
The Moderation of Islamist Movements
Conflict and Co-existence in Lebanon
Documentary film: Nahr el-Bared Talks Back
Violence in the post-conflict state
Global Moments in the Levant
Courts in transition
Norwegian NGOs in Post-Taliban Afghanistan: Review and Lessons Learned
NORAD Review Afghanistan
The MUWATIN agreement (phase 3): State building and rent-seeking in Palestine
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Social anthropologist focusing on peace, conflict and forced migration in South Asia and the Middle East
Are John Knudsen is senior researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Bergen (2001). Knudsen has been research director at CMI (2006-09, 2013-15), project manager for institutional research collaboration in Palestine (2005-13) and co-director of an institute programme on Forced Migration (2009-13). Knudsen has done fieldwork in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan and Palestine and specialises on micro-conflict, forced displacement and urban refugees. He also published on gender-based and political violence, refugee law and transitional & international criminal justice.
He is the author of Violence and Belonging: Land Love and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan (NIAS Press, 2009). His most recent co-edited books are: Palestinian Refugees: Identity, Space and Place in the Levant (Routledge, 2010), Lebanon: After the Cedar Revolution (Hurst, 2012), Popular Protest in the New Middle East: Islamism and Post-Islamist Politics (I.B. Tauris, 2014) and Civil-Military Relations in Lebanon: Conflict, Cohesion and Confessionalism in a Divided Society (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017). Knudsen has also co-edited two special issues/sections on: "Hamas and the Arab Spring" (Middle East Policy, 2013, w/Frode Løvlie) and "Humanitarianism in refugee camps" (Humanity Journal, 2016, w/ Maja Janmyr).
Knudsen has led project evaluations in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Palestine, completed long-term fieldwork and short-term assignments in conflict zones and been a project member of external and in-house evaluations, reports and assessments. His latest commissioned work includes the "CEB Palestine report" (Norad, 2017) and the "Life skills in non-formal contexts for adolescent girls in developing countries" (Brookings, 2018).