A J Knudsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 43083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A J Knudsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | A J |
| FAMILY NAME | Knudsen |
| SIGNATURE | KNUDSEN A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chr. Michelsen Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9630-939X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
EU Migration Governance Beyond Its Borders: Informal Migration Diplomacy in Lebanon’s Syria Refugee Response, 2012–2024
This article examines Lebanon’s informal, often opaque, migration governance in response to the Syrian refugee crisis (2012–2024), shaped significantly by EU external migration policies. Lebanon’s approach relies on elite bargains and back-door agreements, sidestepping formal policy processes within its sectarian, consociational political system. The EU’s influence, grounded in extensive financial aid, aims to contain refugee movements within Leb…
Crushing Hamas: Origins and Expansion of the Islamic Resistance Movement in Lebanon
This article examines Hamas's growth in Lebanon after the 1992 deportation of 415 members to the no-man's land between Lebanon and Israel, leading to ties with the Lebanese branch of the Islamic Brotherhood. Over time, Hamas developed a complex organization rivaling the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), with offices and representatives in Lebanon's refugee camps. The article argues that Hamas, rooted in the camps and driven by pragmatism, …
Sheikhs and the City: Urban Paths of Contention in Sidon, Lebanon
This article examines the rise and fall of the “Assir movement,” a neo-Salafist campaign led by a charismatic local sheikh who, after years of community activism, rose to prominence in the wake of the Syrian uprising (2011–present) protesting the Sunnis’ political decline and disempowerment. To understand the Assir movement’s popular appeal, it is necessary to examine the pathways of contention in specific urban contexts and the extension of Sala…
Competitive clientelism in secondary cities: Urban ecologies of resistance in Lebanon
This article analyses political and religious mobilisation in Sidon and Tripoli, both secondary cities struggling amidst deep social divisions, elite competition, and armed conflict during the contentious decade following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri (2005–15). A central element in the sectarian and Islamic resurgence was discontent with the political and social decline of the Sunnis. The Syrian revolt magnified Sunni-S…
Emergency Urbanism in Sabra, Beirut
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 ( plo ). Damaged during the civil war, today the buildings blend in with the run-down Sabra-Shatila neighbourhood in Beirut’s “misery belt.” This paper charts the buildings’ history and main characters: the lodgers, landlords, …
Decade of Despair: The Contested Rebuilding of the Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp, Lebanon, 2007–2017
In mid-2007 the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli was destroyed by the Lebanese Army battling an insurgent Islamist group, Fatah al-Islam. Displacing about 30,000 Palestinian refugees, it was one of the largest internal battles in post–civil war Lebanon. A decade later, the camp has yet to be fully rebuilt; indeed, reconstruction has been slow, confictual, and underfunded. Rebuilding the camp has been contested and delayed by political oppo…
The Great Escape? Converging Refugee Crises in Tyre, Lebanon
This article analyses the convergence of two refugee crises, Palestine (1948–present) and Syria (2012–present), having brought old and new refugees into close, and sometimes, conflictual contact. While the former settled and gradually integrated with a view to return to Palestine, the new wave of self-settled refugees from Syria seek to migrate and resettle in Europe, having the means and opportunity to do so. Both staying and leaving involve pro…
Campements, abris et squats: Des zones floues où vivent les réfugiés syriens au Liban
Au Liban, une partie des réfugiés syriens qui se sont installés d’eux-mêmes vivent dans des conditions très difficiles, précaires et insalubres dans des campements, des abris ou des squats. La plupart ont une mobilité spatiale limitée, les femmes et les enfants ne quittant pas le foyer. La mobilité est ainsi circonscrite et délimitée pour éviter la stigmatisation sociale, d’être détecté et arrêté à cause d’un permis de séjour qui n’est plus valid…
Death of a Statesman - Birth of a Martyr: Martyrdom and Memorials in Post-Civil War Lebanon
This article furthers the study of post-civil war memorialisation in Lebanon by analysing the trajectory of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri from statesman to martyr. This transformative process offers a window into the symbolism of Lebanese statehood, and demonstrates how the politicisation of confessional martyrs is used to decry injustice and stake out claims to the state. There is no tradition for prosecuting and punishing political murde…
Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL): Impartial or Imposed International Justice
Logging the ‘Frontier’: Narratives of Deforestation in the Northern Borderlands of British India, c. 1850–1940
This article analyses the institution of ‘scientific forestry’ in the northern borderlands (‘Frontier’) of British India c. 1850–1940. Using archival material from the India Office Records (IOR), it traces the extension of colonial forest policies from the plains to the inaccessible parts of the Indus River and its tributaries. The article demonstrates that ‘scientific forestry’ was an early conservation narrative claiming to preserve forest – bu…
Acquiescence to Assassinations in Post-Civil War Lebanon
This article analyses political assassinations in post-civil war Lebanon. Targeted assassinations intensified during the transitional period from war to peace (1989–91), and peaked after the murder of former prime minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. From 1989 to the present, 35 major attacks killed and maimed politicians and journalists in addition to innocent bystanders. No Middle Eastern country has such a grim record of political assassina…
Widening the Protection Gap: The 'Politics of Citizenship' for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, 1948-2008
Journal Article Widening the Protection Gap: The 'Politics of Citizenship' for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, 1948–2008 Get access Are Knudsen Are Knudsen Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen, Norway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 51–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fen047 Published: 04 February 2009 Article history Received: 01 January …
Islamism in the Diaspora: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
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 war of attrition against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. There has been less concern with Islamism among the Palestinian refugees dispersed in Middle Eastern countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. The article outlines the sourc…
Crescent and Sword: The Hamas enigma
This paper analyses the popular support to Hamas, the most\nimportant of the Palestinian Islamist movements today. The\npaper charts the movement’s historical ascendancy from a\nfringe Gaza-based group to a mainstream Islamist movement\nand mouthpiece for dispossessed Palestinians. Since 2001,\nHamas’s leadership has come under increasing attack from\nIsrael, killing a number of the movement’s leaders and senior\nmembers, most prominently Sheikh …
Fragile Mountains—Fragile People? Understanding “Fragility” in the Himalayas: Report on a Workshop in Norway
This article was first published in Research and Development (MRD), vol 24 no 2, pp 174-175. The rights of reproduction remain with the co-copyright holders: The International Mountain Society (IMS) and the United Nations University (UNU), c/o MRD Editorial Office, Bern, Switzerland (www.mrd-journal.org)
Mennesket og kulturen
Tor Aase, red: Tournaments of Power: Honor and Revenge in the Contemporary World
Income-generating Programmes in Pakistan and Malawi: A Comparative Review
This paper reviews income-generating programmes in Pakistan and Malawi organised by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). It compares the different strategies chosen by the NRC regarding project design and the creation of efficient income-generating programmes for refugees. In Pakistan the project design and implementation focused on training and support to income-generating activities based on the traditional artisanal skills of mainly men. In Ma…
Widening the Protection Gap: The 'Politics of Citizenship' for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, 1948-2008
Journal Article Widening the Protection Gap: The 'Politics of Citizenship' for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, 1948–2008 Get access Are Knudsen Are Knudsen Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen, Norway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 51–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fen047 Published: 04 February 2009 Article history Received: 01 January …
Acquiescence to Assassinations in Post-Civil War Lebanon
This article analyses political assassinations in post-civil war Lebanon. Targeted assassinations intensified during the transitional period from war to peace (1989–91), and peaked after the murder of former prime minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. From 1989 to the present, 35 major attacks killed and maimed politicians and journalists in addition to innocent bystanders. No Middle Eastern country has such a grim record of political assassina…
Islamism in the Diaspora: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
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 war of attrition against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. There has been less concern with Islamism among the Palestinian refugees dispersed in Middle Eastern countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. The article outlines the sourc…
Crescent and Sword: The Hamas enigma
This paper analyses the popular support to Hamas, the most\nimportant of the Palestinian Islamist movements today. The\npaper charts the movement’s historical ascendancy from a\nfringe Gaza-based group to a mainstream Islamist movement\nand mouthpiece for dispossessed Palestinians. Since 2001,\nHamas’s leadership has come under increasing attack from\nIsrael, killing a number of the movement’s leaders and senior\nmembers, most prominently Sheikh …
Competitive clientelism in secondary cities: Urban ecologies of resistance in Lebanon
This article analyses political and religious mobilisation in Sidon and Tripoli, both secondary cities struggling amidst deep social divisions, elite competition, and armed conflict during the contentious decade following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri (2005–15). A central element in the sectarian and Islamic resurgence was discontent with the political and social decline of the Sunnis. The Syrian revolt magnified Sunni-S…
Campements, abris et squats: Des zones floues où vivent les réfugiés syriens au Liban
Au Liban, une partie des réfugiés syriens qui se sont installés d’eux-mêmes vivent dans des conditions très difficiles, précaires et insalubres dans des campements, des abris ou des squats. La plupart ont une mobilité spatiale limitée, les femmes et les enfants ne quittant pas le foyer. La mobilité est ainsi circonscrite et délimitée pour éviter la stigmatisation sociale, d’être détecté et arrêté à cause d’un permis de séjour qui n’est plus valid…
Death of a Statesman - Birth of a Martyr: Martyrdom and Memorials in Post-Civil War Lebanon
This article furthers the study of post-civil war memorialisation in Lebanon by analysing the trajectory of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri from statesman to martyr. This transformative process offers a window into the symbolism of Lebanese statehood, and demonstrates how the politicisation of confessional martyrs is used to decry injustice and stake out claims to the state. There is no tradition for prosecuting and punishing political murde…
The Great Escape? Converging Refugee Crises in Tyre, Lebanon
This article analyses the convergence of two refugee crises, Palestine (1948–present) and Syria (2012–present), having brought old and new refugees into close, and sometimes, conflictual contact. While the former settled and gradually integrated with a view to return to Palestine, the new wave of self-settled refugees from Syria seek to migrate and resettle in Europe, having the means and opportunity to do so. Both staying and leaving involve pro…
Income-generating Programmes in Pakistan and Malawi: A Comparative Review
This paper reviews income-generating programmes in Pakistan and Malawi organised by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). It compares the different strategies chosen by the NRC regarding project design and the creation of efficient income-generating programmes for refugees. In Pakistan the project design and implementation focused on training and support to income-generating activities based on the traditional artisanal skills of mainly men. In Ma…
Tor Aase, red: Tournaments of Power: Honor and Revenge in the Contemporary World
Fragile Mountains—Fragile People? Understanding “Fragility” in the Himalayas: Report on a Workshop in Norway
This article was first published in Research and Development (MRD), vol 24 no 2, pp 174-175. The rights of reproduction remain with the co-copyright holders: The International Mountain Society (IMS) and the United Nations University (UNU), c/o MRD Editorial Office, Bern, Switzerland (www.mrd-journal.org)
Mennesket og kulturen
Islamism in the Diaspora: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
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 war of attrition against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. There has been less concern with Islamism among the Palestinian refugees dispersed in Middle Eastern countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. The article outlines the sourc…
Crescent and Sword: The Hamas enigma
This paper analyses the popular support to Hamas, the most\nimportant of the Palestinian Islamist movements today. The\npaper charts the movement’s historical ascendancy from a\nfringe Gaza-based group to a mainstream Islamist movement\nand mouthpiece for dispossessed Palestinians. Since 2001,\nHamas’s leadership has come under increasing attack from\nIsrael, killing a number of the movement’s leaders and senior\nmembers, most prominently Sheikh …
Widening the Protection Gap: The 'Politics of Citizenship' for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, 1948-2008
Journal Article Widening the Protection Gap: The 'Politics of Citizenship' for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, 1948–2008 Get access Are Knudsen Are Knudsen Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen, Norway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 51–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fen047 Published: 04 February 2009 Article history Received: 01 January …
Acquiescence to Assassinations in Post-Civil War Lebanon
This article analyses political assassinations in post-civil war Lebanon. Targeted assassinations intensified during the transitional period from war to peace (1989–91), and peaked after the murder of former prime minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. From 1989 to the present, 35 major attacks killed and maimed politicians and journalists in addition to innocent bystanders. No Middle Eastern country has such a grim record of political assassina…
Logging the ‘Frontier’: Narratives of Deforestation in the Northern Borderlands of British India, c. 1850–1940
This article analyses the institution of ‘scientific forestry’ in the northern borderlands (‘Frontier’) of British India c. 1850–1940. Using archival material from the India Office Records (IOR), it traces the extension of colonial forest policies from the plains to the inaccessible parts of the Indus River and its tributaries. The article demonstrates that ‘scientific forestry’ was an early conservation narrative claiming to preserve forest – bu…
Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL): Impartial or Imposed International Justice
Death of a Statesman - Birth of a Martyr: Martyrdom and Memorials in Post-Civil War Lebanon
This article furthers the study of post-civil war memorialisation in Lebanon by analysing the trajectory of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri from statesman to martyr. This transformative process offers a window into the symbolism of Lebanese statehood, and demonstrates how the politicisation of confessional martyrs is used to decry injustice and stake out claims to the state. There is no tradition for prosecuting and punishing political murde…
The Great Escape? Converging Refugee Crises in Tyre, Lebanon
This article analyses the convergence of two refugee crises, Palestine (1948–present) and Syria (2012–present), having brought old and new refugees into close, and sometimes, conflictual contact. While the former settled and gradually integrated with a view to return to Palestine, the new wave of self-settled refugees from Syria seek to migrate and resettle in Europe, having the means and opportunity to do so. Both staying and leaving involve pro…
Campements, abris et squats: Des zones floues où vivent les réfugiés syriens au Liban
Au Liban, une partie des réfugiés syriens qui se sont installés d’eux-mêmes vivent dans des conditions très difficiles, précaires et insalubres dans des campements, des abris ou des squats. La plupart ont une mobilité spatiale limitée, les femmes et les enfants ne quittant pas le foyer. La mobilité est ainsi circonscrite et délimitée pour éviter la stigmatisation sociale, d’être détecté et arrêté à cause d’un permis de séjour qui n’est plus valid…
Decade of Despair: The Contested Rebuilding of the Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp, Lebanon, 2007–2017
In mid-2007 the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli was destroyed by the Lebanese Army battling an insurgent Islamist group, Fatah al-Islam. Displacing about 30,000 Palestinian refugees, it was one of the largest internal battles in post–civil war Lebanon. A decade later, the camp has yet to be fully rebuilt; indeed, reconstruction has been slow, confictual, and underfunded. Rebuilding the camp has been contested and delayed by political oppo…
Emergency Urbanism in Sabra, Beirut
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 ( plo ). Damaged during the civil war, today the buildings blend in with the run-down Sabra-Shatila neighbourhood in Beirut’s “misery belt.” This paper charts the buildings’ history and main characters: the lodgers, landlords, …
Sheikhs and the City: Urban Paths of Contention in Sidon, Lebanon
This article examines the rise and fall of the “Assir movement,” a neo-Salafist campaign led by a charismatic local sheikh who, after years of community activism, rose to prominence in the wake of the Syrian uprising (2011–present) protesting the Sunnis’ political decline and disempowerment. To understand the Assir movement’s popular appeal, it is necessary to examine the pathways of contention in specific urban contexts and the extension of Sala…
Competitive clientelism in secondary cities: Urban ecologies of resistance in Lebanon
This article analyses political and religious mobilisation in Sidon and Tripoli, both secondary cities struggling amidst deep social divisions, elite competition, and armed conflict during the contentious decade following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri (2005–15). A central element in the sectarian and Islamic resurgence was discontent with the political and social decline of the Sunnis. The Syrian revolt magnified Sunni-S…
Crushing Hamas: Origins and Expansion of the Islamic Resistance Movement in Lebanon
This article examines Hamas's growth in Lebanon after the 1992 deportation of 415 members to the no-man's land between Lebanon and Israel, leading to ties with the Lebanese branch of the Islamic Brotherhood. Over time, Hamas developed a complex organization rivaling the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), with offices and representatives in Lebanon's refugee camps. The article argues that Hamas, rooted in the camps and driven by pragmatism, …
EU Migration Governance Beyond Its Borders: Informal Migration Diplomacy in Lebanon’s Syria Refugee Response, 2012–2024
This article examines Lebanon’s informal, often opaque, migration governance in response to the Syrian refugee crisis (2012–2024), shaped significantly by EU external migration policies. Lebanon’s approach relies on elite bargains and back-door agreements, sidestepping formal policy processes within its sectarian, consociational political system. The EU’s influence, grounded in extensive financial aid, aims to contain refugee movements within Leb…
Political science (15 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (13 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Refugee (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (5 works)