1st Edition

Internal Displacement Conceptualization and its Consequences

By Thomas G. Weiss, David A. Korn Copyright 2006
190 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

This new volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs). The crisis of IDPs was first confronted in the 1980s, and the problems of those suffering from this type of forced migration has grown continually since then. Drawing on official and confidential documents as well as interviews... Read more

Introduction  1. Putting the Issue on the Map  2. Shaping the Mandate in the Early Years, 1992-1993  3. Creating the Project on Internal Displacement and Improving the Knowledge Base and Awareness, 1993-1998  4. Giving Birth to the Guiding Principles, 1993-1998  5. Laying Institutional Foundations, 1993-1998  6. Evolution of the Concept and Project, 1999-2005  7. Evolution of the Law and Institutions, 1999-2005  8. Whither and Whether, Inside-Outsiders or Outside-Insiders?

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Thomas G. Weiss, David A. Korn