Internal Displacement and Conflict

<p>Grounded in multidisciplinary research this book presents a methodical understanding of those displaced within their national borders the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).</p><p>The IDP phenomenon remains less understood than that of refugees due to the internal nature of the crisis linked to a nation’s sovereignty which assigns the responsibility for care to the national actors as opposed to an international body. However the IDP phenomenon poses an international humanitarian challenge with upwards of 40 million people currently in internal displacement across the globe. This book helps answer the most perplexing questions surrounding conflict-induced protracted displacements: namely how do positions embraced by key actors inform/influence IDP policies and why despite the promise of robust return packages do families remain reluctant to return to home communities and equally reluctant to embrace new host communities? Capitalizing on the diagnostic tool kit known as Dugan’s Nested Model uniquely adapted to the Kashmiri Pandit displacement this book also analyzes issues of the similarly displaced communities of Nagorno-Karabakh Abkhazia and South Ossetia Kosovo and Darfur regions. </p><p>This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies humanitarianism Asian politics and International Law in general.</p>