Returns of Internally Displaced Persons during Armed Conflict

International Law and its Application in Colombia

Bibliographic Data

ID23528936
AuthorsDavid James Cantor
Year2018
Publication date2018-04-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueReturns of Internally Displaced Persons during Armed Conflict (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill | Nijhoff (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1163/9789004364363
OpenAlexW2799892808
ISBN9789004364363
LanguageEN
Citations received3

By 2017, it was estimated that over 40 million people were displaced within their own countries by conflict and violence across at least 56 countries worldwide. Solutions to the epidemic of forced internal displacement are frequently premised on the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Indeed, as a characteristic need of IDPs, such returns benefit from a special protection framework developed by IDP protection instruments such as the Guiding Principles. However, the legal status of those instruments remains ambiguous, generating attendant questions about the congruity of the IDP return framework with existing international law. Moreover, limited knowledge exists on its practical implementation. As a result, both inter-national agencies and individual scholars have repeatedly issued urgent calls for comprehensive and grounded theoretical investigation into this topic. This book answers those long-standing calls for research by presenting a detailed study of the return of conflict-afffected IDPs under international law.

Armed conflict · Development economics · Displaced person · Displacement (psychology) · Economics · Forced migration · Internally displaced person · International law · Law and economics · Political science · Public relations · Refugee · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Psychology

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