Research Interests
I mainly research the Arab-Israeli conflict with a focus on the various diplomatic endeavours ranging from the late 1940s up until today.
I have done research and published on various phases in this history, including:
- The UN negotiations following the 1948 war
- The Zionist movement, and later Israel's, succesful attempt to gain international recognition and UN membership
- The US lead negotiations during the late 1970s leading to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty
- The Obama era initiative to reach Israeli-Palestinian peace
- The history of US Jerusalem policy
A central focus of my research is the lack of Palestinian inclusion in these international approaches to the conflict.
Background
Working experience:
2018 - : Senior Researcher at PRIO
2016-2018: Associate Professor at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
2016 - : Editor of Store Norske Leksikon articles on the Middle East
2011-2016: PhD Candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU
2011: Researcher at PRIO
2010: Board member of the Nordic Society for Middle East Studies
January 2010 -2011 : Editor, Babylon, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier
January - May 2010: Booknote Editor, Journal of Peace Research.
2009 - 2010: Guest lecturer at the University of Oslo: "Neighbourhood Bully? The Great Powers and the Middle East Since 1945"
December 2008 - : Research Assistant for Professor Hilde Henriksen Waage
August 2008 - February 2010: Managing editor, Journal of Peace Research
May 2008 - January 2010: Managing Editor, Babylon, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier
January-July 2007: Trainee at the Norwegian Embassy in Amman, Jordan.
2004 - 2007: Board member of Spire, The Development Fund Youth, a Norwegian NGO.
2003 - 2006: Assistant Editor at Solum Forlag, Solum Publishing House.
Education:
2011-2016: PhD in History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
2006-2008: MA in History at the University of Oslo (UiO)
2002-2005: BA in History at the University of Oslo (UiO)
1999-2002: International Baccalaureate (IB), St. Stephen's School of Rome. Received the Bilingual Diploma.
Languages spoken:
Bilingual Norwegian and English.
Can speak Italian.
Basic Arabic
Blog Posts
Will Palestinians living in the annexed areas be offered Israeli citizenship, or will they become non-citizens within Israel? Israel’s new government will be able to start annexing parts of the occupied West Bank as early as 1 July 2020. What should the world do about it? This is not the ... Read more »
Posted by Jørgen Jensehaugen on Wednesday, 11 March 2020
On March 3 the PRIO-CSS Jordan seminar, “Preserving Spaces for Dialogue in the Middle East”, was situated by the shore of the Dead Sea. The view was both beautiful and thematically fitting, because while most people associate the Dead Sea with a rather exotic seaside tourist destination, and the Kingdom ... Read more »
On Thursday President Trump made the unprecedented move to use a foreign power to punish domestic political actors. He tweeted that Israel should bar two congresswomen from entering the country. Prior to this tweet Prime Minister Netanyahu had decided that the congresswomen should be allowed to enter, but after the ... Read more »
Posted by Jørgen Jensehaugen on Wednesday, 27 March 2019
It is claimed that the UN created Israel. This is only true subject to major reservations, and the relationship between the two is extremely complicated. On 14 May 2018, Israel celebrated its 70th anniversary, and in May this year it will be 70 years since the country became a member ... Read more »
Posted by Jørgen Jensehaugen on Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Forty years ago, President Jimmy Carter orchestrated peace between Israel and Egypt; yet the conflict between Israel and Palestinians is further than ever from a solution. Those outcomes are closely linked. There are lessons for President Donald Trump to learn from Carter’s experience, if he is attentive. An unprecedented breakthrough ... Read more »