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 was research director at CMI (2006-09, 2013-15) and project manager for institutional research collaboration in Palestine (2005-13). He is currently co-director of an institute programme on Forced Migration (with Arne Strand). Knudsen has done fieldwork in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan and Palestine and specialises on communal conflict, forced displacement and urban refugees. He also publshed on gender-based violence (honour killings), 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). With Sari Hanafi he is editor of Palestinian Refugees: Identity, Space and Place in the Levant (Routledge, 2010). His most recent edited books are Lebanon: After the Cedar Revolution (Hurst, 2012) and Popular Protest in the New Middle East: Islamism and Post-Islamist Politics (I.B. Tauris, 2014). Knudsen has led project evaluations in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Palestine and completed long-term fieldwork and short-term assignments in conflict zones, been a project member of external and in-house evaluations, reports and assessments.

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Most recent publications

Edited Book | Sep 2017

Civil-Military Relations in Lebanon Conflict, Cohesion and Confessionalism in a Divided Society

Are John Knudsen and Tine Gade

Book Chapter | Jan 2017

Patrolling a Proxy-War: Soldiers, Citizens and Zuʻama in Syria Street, Tripoli

Are John Knudsen

Journal Article | Jan 2017

Campements, abris et squats: Des zones floues où vivent les réfugiés syriens au Liban (Camps, shelters, squats: Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s twilight zones)

Are John Knudsen

hommes & migrations

Report in External Series | Jan 2017

Country Evaluation Brief: Palestine

Are John Knudsen, Alaa Tartir

Book Chapter | Jan 2017

Syria's refugees in Lebanon: Brothers, burden and bone of contention

Knudsen, Are John

Lebanon Facing the Arab Uprisings: Between Internal Challenges and External Constraints

Journal Article | 2016

Death of a Statesman – Birth of a Martyr: Martyrdom and Memorials in Post–Civil War Lebanon

Are John Knudsen

Anthropology of the Middle East

Journal Article | 2016

Recapturing Refugee Camps: Hybrid Spaces of Humanitarianism

Maja Janmyr, Are John Knudsen

Humanity Journal

Journal Article | 2016

Trial of the Status Quo: The Politics of Mediated Justice in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon

Sari Hanafi, Are John Knudsen, Robert Flahive

Arab Studies Journal

Journal Article | 2016

Camp, ghetto, zinco, slum: Lebanon’s transitional zones of emplacement

Are John Knudsen

Humanity Journal

Book Chapter | 2016

Beyond cultural relativism? Tim Ingold's “ontology of dwelling” revisited

Are John Knudsen

Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity and Difference

Journal Article | 2015

Framed Justice: The Politics of Media for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon

Sari Hanafi, Are John Knudsen, Robert Flahive

Arab Journal for Political Science

Edited Book | 2015

Palestinian refugees: Identity, space and place in the Levant (Arabic edition)

Jaber Suleiman, Are Knudsen and Sari Hanafi

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Are John Knudsen

Civil-Military Relations in Lebanon Conflict, Cohesion and Confessionalism in a Divided Society

Patrolling a Proxy-War: Soldiers, Citizens and Zuʻama in Syria Street, Tripoli

Campements, abris et squats: Des zones floues où vivent les réfugiés syriens au Liban (Camps, shelters, squats: Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s twilight zones)

Country Evaluation Brief: Palestine

Syria's refugees in Lebanon: Brothers, burden and bone of contention

Death of a Statesman – Birth of a Martyr: Martyrdom and Memorials in Post–Civil War Lebanon

Recapturing Refugee Camps: Hybrid Spaces of Humanitarianism

Migration Week 24-28 October

Trial of the Status Quo: The Politics of Mediated Justice in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon

Når grensene stenges. Flyktningkrisen i Midtøsten

Camp, ghetto, zinco, slum: Lebanon’s transitional zones of emplacement

Beyond cultural relativism? Tim Ingold's “ontology of dwelling” revisited

Framed Justice: The Politics of Media for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon

Palestinian refugees: Identity, space and place in the Levant (Arabic edition)

Campements, abris et squats: Des zones floues où vivent les réfugiés syriens au Liban (Camps, shelters, squats: Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s twilight zones)

Death of a Statesman – Birth of a Martyr: Martyrdom and Memorials in Post–Civil War Lebanon

Recapturing Refugee Camps: Hybrid Spaces of Humanitarianism

Trial of the Status Quo: The Politics of Mediated Justice in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon

Camp, ghetto, zinco, slum: Lebanon’s transitional zones of emplacement

Framed Justice: The Politics of Media for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon

Violence et déplacement: La crise des réfugiés Syriens au Liban

Hamas and the Arab Spring: Introduction

Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL): Impartial or Imposed International Justice?

Logging the 'Frontier': Narratives of deforestation in the northern borderlands of British India, c. 1850-1940

Mohns Midtøsten

Acquiescence to assassinations in post-civil war Lebanon?

Widening the protection gap: The 'politics of citizenship' for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, 1948-2008

Crescent and Sword: The Hamas Enigma

Islamism in the Diaspora: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

Med rett til å drepe: Æresdrap i Midtøsten

Conservation and controversy in the Karakoram: Khunjerab National Park, Pakistan

Civil-Military Relations in Lebanon Conflict, Cohesion and Confessionalism in a Divided Society

Palestinian refugees: Identity, space and place in the Levant (Arabic edition)

Popular Protest in the New Middle East: Islamism and Post-Islamist Politics

Lebanon After the Cedar Revolution

Palestinian refugees: Identity, space and place in the Levant

Violence and belonging: Land, love and lethal conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan

Syria's refugees in Lebanon: Brothers, burden and bone of contention

Patrolling a Proxy-War: Soldiers, Citizens and Zuʻama in Syria Street, Tripoli

Beyond cultural relativism? Tim Ingold's “ontology of dwelling” revisited

Albert Henrik Mohn (1918–1999).

War and migration

Introduction: the Cedar revolution and beyond

Special tribunal for Lebanon: Homage to Hariri?

Political violence in post-civil war Lebanon

Nahr el-Bared: The political fall-out of a refugee disaster

Introduction

(In-)Security in a space of exception: The destruction of the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon

From refugees to revolutionaries: Camp-based Palestinians in post-civil war Lebanon

Hamas and Palestinian Statehood

Traditional (In)justice: Honour Killings in Pakistan

State invention and community protest: Nature conservation in Hunza, North Pakistan

Country Evaluation Brief: Palestine

Review report: Al-Haq

Review report: Al-Miftah

Flyktninger: Libanons indre Fiende?

Peacebuilding strategies for Afghanistan. Part II: A decade of peacebuilding: lessons for Afghanistan

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

Norwegian NGOs in Post-Taliban Afghanistan: Review and Lessons Learned

Political Islam in the Middle East

Political Islam in South Asia

Peacebuilding: Lessons for Afghanistan?

Living with the commons: Local institutions for natural resource management

The Law, the Loss and the Lives of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

Hamas and the Quest for Palestinian Statehood

License to kill: Honour killings in Pakistan

Crescent and sword: The Hamas enigma

Islamism in the diaspora: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

Land dispute and death enmity in a Kohistani mountain village

Beyond cultural relativism? Tim Ingold's "ontology of dwelling"

Mountain protected areas in Northern Pakistan: The case of Khunjerab National Park

Income-generating programmes in Pakistand and Malawi: A comparative perspective

Deforestation and entrpeneurship in the North West Frontier Province, Pakistan

Lebanese Armed Forces: A United Army for a Divided Country?

Special tribunal for Lebanon: Either peace or justice?

Yrke: Fotograf

Localised Islam in Northern Pakistan

Fra Krig til Fred, 1990-2005: Libanon etter Taif-avtalen