• Blood Elections: Presidential election in Syria within the Red Regime Lines 

      Jørum, Emma (CMI Insight 2014:4, Report, 2014-06-01)
      The oppositional groups called the June 3 presidential election “blood elections” because of the huge numbers of lives lost during the three years of war. When pro-regime voters marked their ballots with blood instead of ...
    • 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 ...
    • Divine Intervention: Invoking God in Peace Agreements 

      Forster, Robert; Bell, Christine (Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace, Chapter, 2022-07-01)
      Based on an analysis of the religious language found in contemporary peace agreements, Robert Forster and Christine Bell argue in Chapter 44 that such language should not be dismissed as culturally specific rhetoric, but ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Ingen trygg havn for palestinske flyktninger fra Syria 

      Berg, Kjersti G. (Others, 2015-01-01)
      Ingen trygg havn for palestinske flyktninger Kjersti Berg En Palestinsk flyktning fra Syria kan ikke pa° lovlig vis søke trygghet over grensen i nabolandene. Hun møter stengte dører hvor hun vender seg. ...
    • 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?
    • No Longer a Guest: Permitting Syrians in Sudan 

      Tobin, Sarah A; Kanhoush, Salam (Report, 2020-12-01)
      When Syrian refugees first started arriving to Sudan in 2014 they were welcomed as guests. But Sudan’s economic crisis combined with Syrians’ success in business has created antagonism. The transitional government ...
    • Protection of civilians: Why they die in US strikes 

      Suhrke, Astri (CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 7, Report, 2015-01-01)
      Read online The US military strike that devastated the MSF hospital in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan on 3 October generated profound, if short-lived, outrage in much of the world. The US government promised an ...
    • Roots of fragmentation: The army and regime survival in Syria 

      Selvik, Kjetil (CMI Insight 2014:2, Report, 2014-04-30)
      The Syrian army did not turn on the regime in the face of popular protests, contrary to its Egyptian and Tunisian counterparts. Yet, the Syrian army lost its ability to keep the country together. This CMI Insight focuses ...
    • 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 ...
    • Syrian Refugees in Istanbul and Gaziantep: Comparative Findings on Settlement, Livelihood and Support 

      Içduygu, Ahmet; Osseiran, Souad (CMI Insight 2022:01, Report, 2022-06-01)
      The Syrian presence in Turkey is largely urban in nature with refugees settling in regional cities along the Syria-Turkey border and in the metropolises of western Turkey. Based on a survey with 300 Syrian refugees in ...
    • Syrian Self-settlement in Lebanon’s ‘Arrival Cities’: Refugee Livelihoods in Tripoli, Beirut, and Tyre 

      Forster, Robert; Knudsen, Are J. (Urban Displacement: Syria's Refugees in the Middle East, Chapter, 2024-03-01)
      Taking arrival cities as their point of departure, Robert Forster and Are John Knudsen compare settlement choices and outcomes for Syrian refugees living in the poorest neighbourhoods in Beirut, Tripoli and Tyre. The latter ...
    • The spatial governance of the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan: Refugees between urban settlements and encampment policies 

      Awamleh, Zaid; Dorai, Kamel (CMI Report 2023:3, Research report, 2023-08-01)
      This CMI Report presents a critical analysis of the Jordans’ governance of the Syrian refugee crisis and discusses the spatial policies in the framework of space and power. It identifies a shift in the direction of governance ...
    • UNRWA, funding crisis and the way forward 

      Berg, Kjersti G.; Jensehaugen, Jørgen; Tiltnes, Åge A. (CMI Report R 2022:04, Research report, 2022-09-01)
      Summary This commissioned report has two main aims: First, providing a description of what UNRWA is, including its history, mandate and services, with particular emphasis on the recent funding deficit and how that has ...
    • Urban Displacement in Lebanon: Syrians in Tripoli 

      Forster, Robert; Abdalkader, Abdalkarim Fares (CMI Report 2021:5, Research report, 2021-11-01)
      Living conditions among Syrians in Tripoli, Lebanon, have deteriorated since 2011. Syrian refugee households that achieved some degree of stability after self-settlement reported an upheaval in livelihoods amidst declining ...