Durable Solutions

<p> Focusing on Georgia this book presents a theoretical and empirical study on the implementation of durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Building on extensive field research it describes and explains the considerable problems which Georgia faces in establishing global norms as well as the ongoing hardship that IDPs experience. Importantly the book reveals the simultaneous progress and setbacks in implementing durable solutions. Successfully combining approaches from humanistic studies international relations and organizational sociology this book explains the interaction of norms and actors at and among three societal levels: the international national and local.</p>