Are John Knudsen
Current projects

Effects of Externalisation

Urban Displacement, Development and Donor Policies in the Middle East (URBAN3DP)

SuperCamp: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East

TRAFIG Transnational Figurations of Displacement
Completed projects

Superleiren

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

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

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

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 micro conflict, displacement and forced migration in South Asia and the Middle East
Are John Knudsen is Research Professor (Phd Anthropology, 2001) at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI). 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). He specializes on micro conflict, displacement, camp-based and urban refugees in the Middle East, in particular Lebanon, and has published books, chapters and journal articles on these topics. Knudsen’s research is funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN), NordicResearch (NordForsk, NF) and the EU Commission. He is project leader of: SuperCamp, URBAN3DP and project member EFFEXT, TRAFIG and HYRES.
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