• CONTINENTAL ENCAMPMENT: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe 

      Knudsen, Are John; Berg, Kjersti G. (Book, 2023-02-01)
      Beginning in 2012, the civil war in Syria displaced millions within the country and as refugees to neighbouring states. Three years later, more than a million had reached Europe, before the EU and member states closed ranks ...
    • Country Evaluation Brief: Palestine 

      Knudsen, Are John; Tartir, Alaa (Country Evaluation Brief 5/2017, Research report, 2017-01-01)
      The Occupied Palestinian Territories is one of the world’s most aid-dependent countries. Despite overall levels of aid falling since 2009, the Territories remain one of the world’s largest per capita recipients of foreign ...
    • EFFEXT Background Paper – National and international migration policy in Lebanon 

      Forster, Robert; Knudsen, Are John (Others, 2022-12-01)
      This EFFEXT Background Paper provides a brief presentation of migration and migration policy dynamics between the European Union (EU) and Lebanon. It presents an overview of key Lebanese national and international ...
    • Emergency Urbanism and Architectures of Precarity in Sabra, Beirut 

      Knudsen, Are John (Journal article, 2021-02-01)
      Since the mid-1980s, generations of displaced people have sought refuge in the ramshackle buildings that were once the Gaza-Ramallah Hospital, a multi-story hospital complex built by the Palestinian Liberation Organization ...
    • En av historiens verste flytningekatastrofer 

      Knudsen, Are John (Others, 2013-01-01)
      Seks millioner mennesker fra Syria – mer enn en fjerdedel av landets befolkning – er på flukt. Midtøstens historie er full av flyktningekatastrofer. Nå er regionen midt i en av sine verste, Til sammen bor 20 millioner ...
    • Flyktninger: Libanons indre Fiende? 

      Knudsen, Are John (Hvor Hender Det? 4 2007-2008, Research report, 2007-12-19)
    • Framed Justice: The Politics of Media for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon 

      Hanafi, Sari; Knudsen, Are John; Flahive, Robert (Arab Journal for Political Science vol. 45-46, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-09-01)
      [English abstract] The Lebanese media landscape is widely acknowledged to be a battleground for privatized outlets aligned with political elites. Each outlet vies for hegemony in a crowded and competitive marketplace of ...
    • Hamas and the Arab Spring: Introduction 

      Løvlie, Frode; Knudsen, Are John (Middle East Policy vol. 20 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-08-01)
      The Arab Spring is a critical juncture for examining Hamas, a movement created in the context of a popular revolt (against Israeli occupation) similar to those that have reverberated throughout the Middle East. Since the ...
    • Lebanese Armed Forces: A United Army for a Divided Country? 

      Knudsen, Are John (CMI Insight 2014:9, Report, 2014-11-06)
      Lebanon is straining under the fallout from the Syrian civil war amidst catering for one million refugees. Can the Lebanese Armed Forces contain the crisis and deliver the country from war?
    • Libanons indre fiende 

      Knudsen, Are John (Others, 2007-01-01)
    • Review report: Al-Haq 

      Selvik, Kjetil; Knudsen, Are John (Research report, 2014-11-01)
      This report reviews the organisational performance of the Palestinian NGO Al-Haq over a three period (2011–13). The report is based on field interviews in Ramallah with staff, stakeholders and beneficiaries and includes ...
    • Review report: Al-Miftah 

      Knudsen, Are John; Selvik, Kjetil (Research report, 2014-11-01)
      This report reviews the organisational performance of the Palestinian NGO Al-Miftah over a three period (2011–13). The report is based on field interviews in Ramallah with staff, stakeholders and beneficiaries and includes ...
    • Special tribunal for Lebanon: Either peace or justice? 

      Knudsen, Are John (CMI Brief vol. 10 no. 1, Report, 2011-03-01)
      On 14 February 2005, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 members of his staff and security detail were killed by a massive bomb in downtown Beirut. The murder gave rise to the “Cedar Revolution,” the largest ...
    • 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, Chapter, 2017-01-01)
      The Syrian civil war has displaced more than one million Syrians as refugees in Lebanon. Lebanon has not set up formal camps, but instituted a “non–camp” approach, meaning that nearly all the refugees are self–settled and ...