Internal displacement and the law / Walter Kälin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kälin, Walter, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--Africa.

Refugees.

Internally displaced persons--Legal status, laws, etc--Africa.

Internally displaced persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This publication provides a comprehensive view of displacement and explores what international and domestic law can contribute to prevent, address, and resolve internal displacement. It emphasizes the primary responsibility of states to address the needs of internally displaced persons and views them as citizens with rights and agency.

Contents:

Cover

Internal Displacement and the Law

Copyright

Contents

Table of Cases

Table of Treaties and Other Instruments

Table of National Laws, Policies, and Strategies

List of Abbreviations

1. Internal Displacement and the Role of Law

I. Introduction

II. The Context: A Fourfold Crisis

III. Internal Displacement

A. Notion and Categories

B. From Prevention to Durable Solutions: The Displacement Cycle

IV. An Emerging Legal Regime

A. Notion

B. Origins

C. Recent Developments

D. Overview

2. The Primary Responsibility of the State

II. The Primary Duty and Responsibility of the State

A. The Role of the State

B. Sovereignty as Responsibility

C. Political Will

1. Situations

2. Elements of Political Will

III. The Roles of Other Actors

IV. The Need for a New Narrative

A. Problematic International Approaches

B. Incoherent Narratives

1. Humanitarian Discourse

2. Human Rights Discourse

3. Development Discourse

4. Other Relevant Discourses

C. Towards a Coherent Narrative: Internally Displaced Persons as Citizens

V. Conclusions

3. A Category of Special Concern?

II. Who is an IDP?

A. A Broad Consensus

B. Four Elements

1. Involuntary Movement

2. From One's Home or Places of Habitual Residence

3. In Multiple Contexts

4. Within Internationally Recognized Borders

C. Description, not Status

III. Specific Needs

A. The Relevant Question

B. Displacement-​Specific Needs

1. Internally Displaced Persons

2. Wider Displacement-​Affected Communities

IV. Specific Human Rights Protection for People with Specific Needs

V. Sovereignty as a Limit to IDP Protection?

VI. IDP Protection: Undermining Asylum?

A. IDP Protection and the Right to Seek Asylum.

B. IDP Protection and the Internal Relocation Alternative

VII. Conclusions

4. Treaties, Laws, and Other Standards

II. The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

A. Key Features

B. From Partial Criticism to Universal Recognition

1. A Difficult Start

2. Universal Recognition and Increasing Application

3. Time for a Universal Convention on Internal Displacement?

C. Legal Character

1. The Guiding Principles as Soft Law

2. The Guiding Principles and Customary International Law

III. African Treaty Law

A. The Great Lakes Protocols: IDP Protection in a Peacebuilding Context

B. The Kampala Convention: Binding Obligations to Protect and Assist IDPs

1. Background

2. Content and Character

IV. The Domestic Level: Laws, Policies, and Strategies

A. Relevance

B. Typology

V. Peace Agreements

VI. Why States Accept Binding Obligations

A. A Duty to Enact Displacement-​Specific Domestic Instruments?

B. Why States Commit to International Standards

5. Protection from Displacement

II. Prevention: A Complex Issue

III. Preventing Displacement

A. Preventing Conflict-​ and Violence-​Related Displacement

1. Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law

2. Early Warning Mechanisms

3. Physical Protection of Civilians and its Limitations

4. Provisional Measures of Protection: The Role of Human Rights Bodies

B. Preventing Disaster-​Induced Displacement

1. The Duty to Protect Life

2. Policy Options: Reducing Hazards, Vulnerability, and Exposure

IV. The Prohibition of Arbitrary Displacement

A. When is Displacement Arbitrary?

B. Permissible Displacement: Evacuations and Relocations

1. Notions

2. Armed Conflict

3. Disasters

V. Modalities of Organized Evacuations and Relocations.

A. Emergency Evacuations

B. Relocation in Situations Other than Emergencies

VI. Criminal Accountability for Arbitrary Displacement

A. International Criminal Law

B. Domestic Law

6. Protection During Displacement: The Law

II. Discrimination-​Related Needs

A. The Issue

B. Multiple Forms of Discrimination

1. Discrimination of and among Internally Displaced Persons

2. Direct and Indirect Discrimination

III. Life, Integrity, and Liberty and Security of the Person

A. Overview

B. Attacks on IDPs and Their Camps and Settlements

C. Sexual and Gender-​Based Violence

D. Closed Camps

E. Recruitment of Children

IV. Documentation

V. Movement-​Related Needs

A. Access to Safer Locations

B. Return to Situations of Serious Harm

VI. Family-​Related Needs

VII. Political Participation

VIII. Economic, Social, and Cultural Needs

A. Introduction

B. Food and Water

C. Shelter and Housing

D. Health

E. Education

F. Protection of Property and Possessions Left Behind

IX. Conclusions

7. International Humanitarian Action

II. The Context

A. The Primary Responsibility of National Actors

1. Governments

2. Courts and National Human Rights Institutions

3. Civil Society and Community Organizations

B. Multiple Situations

III. A Right to Humanitarian Protection and Assistance?

IV. Humanitarian Assistance and Protection

A. Humanitarian Assistance

B. Humanitarian Protection

V. International Actors

A. Humanitarian Organizations

B. From the Collaborative to the Cluster Approach

C. Human Rights Mechanisms

VI. Humanitarian Principles

A. Sources and Notions

B. Challenges

1. Humanity and Impartiality

2. Neutrality and Independence

C. Emerging Humanitarian Principles?.

VII. The Challenge: Humanitarian Access

A. The Requirement of Consent

B. The Prohibition of Arbitrary Denial of Humanitarian Access

1. Increasing Recognition

2. Legal Foundations

3. Arbitrariness

VIII. Conclusions

8. Durable Solutions: The Concept

II. When Does Displacement End?

A. Three Approaches

B. What the Guiding Principles and the Kampala Convention Say

C. The IASC Framework on Durable Solutions

1. Content

2. Character

III. A Right to a Durable Solution?

A. Solutions as an Inherent Element of Human Rights Guarantees

B. Solutions as an Element of the Right to Reparation

C. Assessment

IV. Three Options

A. The Right to Choose

1. Relevance

2. Legal Foundation

3. Restrictions

B. The Right to Return

1. Legal Foundation

2. Restrictions

3. The Prohibition of Forcible Return

C. The Right to Information, Consultation, and Participation

1. Information and Consultation

2. Participation

V. Making Solutions Durable

A. Safety and Security

B. Basic Services

C. Livelihoods and Employment

D. Housing, Land, and Property

1. Sources

2. Restitution or Compensation?

3. Key Principles

E. Documentation, Family Reunification, and Participation in Public Affairs

F. Effective Remedies and Justice

VI. Conclusions

9. Durable Solutions in Practice

II. Understanding Protracted Internal Displacement

B. Multidimensional Impacts

1. Impacts on IDPs

2. Wider Socio-​Economic Impacts

C. Causes

D. Insufficient Responses

III. International Responses

A. Solutions as a Development and Peacebuilding Task

B. The New Way of Working

C. The High-​Level Panel on Internal Displacement

IV. Institutional Challenges

A. Strengthening Governmental Will and Capacity.

B. Institutionalizing IDP and Societal Engagement

C. Building Partnerships with the Private Sector

D. Making the UN System Fit for Purpose

E. Building Predictable Financing Mechanisms

V. Principles

10. Conclusion: Adequate Norms but Weak Governance

II. Adequate Norms

III. Weak Governance

IV. Outlook

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 26, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-289933-3

0-19-198366-7

0-19-289932-5

OCLC:

1378935510