Are John Knudsen
Current projects

Climate Change & Migration Research at CMI
Completed projects

Effects of Externalisation

Influx of Migrants Following Russia's Invasion of Ukraine:

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

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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Book Chapters
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CMI Reports
Other Publications
Conference Papers/ Presentations
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Popular Presentations and Lectures
Blog posts
Project Dissemination
Social anthropologist focusing on micro conflict, displacement and forced migration in South Asia and the Middle East
Are John Knudsen is Research Professor at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and an International Fellow at Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM), Paris. 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 program on Forced Migration (2009-13). Knudsen specializes in forced displacement, camp-based and urban refugees in the Middle East, particularly Lebanon. His research focuses on emergency urbanism and shelter architectures in camps and informal areas and he 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 a project member of EFFEXT and INFLUX, and coordinator of CMI's Migration and Humanitarianism Research Group and member of the Climate Change & Migration Initiative.
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