Blar i Chr. Michelsens Institutt på emneord "Lebanon"
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Book Review: Tine Gade, Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese 'Revolution'
(Others, 2024-05-01)Why did so many episodes of Lebanon’s contentious politics in the last century occur in Tripoli? In her work, Sunni City , Tine Gade traces the hundred-year trajectory (1920-2020) of the ‘Sunni ... -
Building Back Better: The Politicisation of Disaster and Displacement Response Architecture in Lebanon
(NCHS Paper, Research report, 2022-08-01)This paper examines Lebanon’s disaster response institutions and argues that the 2020 Beirut blast presents an opportunity to ‘build back better’ and overhaul contemporary institutional arrangements. -
CONTINENTAL ENCAMPMENT: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe
(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
(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 ... -
EFFEXT Background Paper – National and international migration policy in Lebanon
(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
(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
(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?
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Framed Justice: The Politics of Media for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
(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 ... -
From refugees to revolutionaries: Camp-based Palestinians in post-civil war Lebanon
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Ingen trygg havn for palestinske flyktninger fra Syria
(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. ... -
Islamism in the diaspora: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)In recent years there has been increasing academic interest in Islamism in the Middle East, not least in Palestinian Islamism championed by groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are waging a bloody war of attrition ... -
Lebanese Armed Forces: A United Army for a Divided Country?
(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? -
Lebanon After the Cedar Revolution
(Book, 2012-10-01)A comprehensive look at contemporary Lebanon and the ongoing attempts by Israel, Syria and Iran to influence its domestic affairs. Lebanon is the prisoner of its geography and its history, a prize for invaders since ... -
Legal Reform and Women’s Rights in Lebanese Personal Status Laws
(CMI Report R 2017:3, Research report, 2017-10-01)This report documents and analyzes two recent major reforms in Lebanese law whose purpose is to further gender equality for women in Lebanon: ( I ) the alteration of the Sunni personal status law to allow mothers to keep ... -
Life skills in non-formal contexts for adolescent girls in developing countries
(CMI Report R 2018:6, Research report, 2018-04-01)Executive summary How can young women in developing countries best be prepared for success in their lives and livelihoods? Life preparation requires learning different types of knowledge and skills in formal, non-formal, ... -
No city is the same: Livelihood opportunities among self-settled Syrian refugees in Beirut, Tripoli and Tyre
(CMI Insight 2021:1, Report, 2021-03-01)The large influx of Syrians displaced into urban areas in Lebanon strained infrastructure and available services. Based on a survey of 450 displaced Syrians in Beirut, Tripoli, and Tyre, this CMI Insight sheds light on the ... -
Non-formal girls’ life skills programming Implications for policy and practice
(POLICY BRIEF, Research report, 2018-05-01)Research in developing countries demonstrates the importance of life skills for improving a range of outcomes for adolescent girls. These outcomes include improved psychosocial and mental health (e.g., emotional resilience, ... -
Precarious peacebuilding: Post-war Lebanon, 1990-2005
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)This paper analyses Lebanon’s post-war period (1990–2005) from the perspective of peacebuilding and argues that the country’s precarious attempts at implementing a peacebuilding agenda must be sought internally in the ... -
Shatila: The island of (in)stability
(Journal article, 2021-02-01)The Shatila refugee camp was established in 1949 for Palestinian refugees fleeing Palestine during the Nakba. The camp is located in Beirut next to the Sabra neighbourhood (of the Gaza buildings discussed in the foregoing ...