Are Knudsen is a social anthropologist, and researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Norway. His research experience from South East Asia includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon and Palestine.
Are Knudsen is a social anthropologist, and researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Norway. His research experience from South East Asia includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon and Palestine.
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Violence and Belonging
Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan
Most studies of violence in the Middle East and South Asia come from the perspective of honour or political violence. By contrast, this important study offers a new perspective on its causes in Pakistan’s unruly North-West Frontier Province and challenges stereotyped images of a region and people miscast as extremist and militant.