Internal Displacement: Conceptualization and its Consequences

✍ Scribed by Thomas G. Weiss, David A. Korn

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Series: Global Institutions
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 with leading personalities, Internal Displacement provides an unparalleled analysis of this important issue and includes:

• an exploration of the phenomenon of internal displacement and of policy research about it
• a review of efforts to increase awareness about the plight of IDPs and the development of a legal framework to protect them
• a 'behind-the-scenes' look at the creation and evolution of the mandate of the Representative of the Secretary-General on IDPs
• a variety of case studies illustrating the difficulties in overcoming the operational shortcomings within the UN system
• a foreword by former UN high commissioner for refugees, Sadako Ogata.

Internal Displacement will appeal to students and scholars with interests in war and peace, forced migration, human rights and global governance.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 10
List of illustrations......Page 12
About the authors......Page 13
Foreword......Page 15
Acknowledgments......Page 20
List of abbreviations......Page 22
Introduction......Page 24
1. Putting the issue on the map......Page 34
2. Shaping the mandate in the early years, 1992-1993......Page 53
3. Creating the project on internal displacement and improving the knowledge base and awareness, 1993-1998......Page 64
4. Giving birth to the Guiding Principles, 1993-1998......Page 78
5. Laying institutional foundations, 1993-1998......Page 94
6. Evolution of the concept and project, 1999-2005......Page 112
7. Evolution of the law and institutions, 1999-2005......Page 126
8. Whither and whether, inside-outsiders or outside-insiders?......Page 150
Appendix 1: Key UN publications concerning IDPs, 1992-2005......Page 171
Appendix 2: Principal UN decisions concerning IDPs, 1992-2005......Page 176
Appendix 3: Selected publications by staff and consultants of the Project on Internal Displacement, 1993-2005......Page 178
Notes......Page 182
Index......Page 204