Returns of Internally Displaced Persons in Armed Conflict : International Law and Its Application in Colombia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cantor, David James.

Series:

International Refugee Law Series 12.

International Refugee Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internally displaced persons.

International law.

Colombia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (673 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Returns of Internally Displaced Persons: The Balkans and Beyond

IDP Returns in Human Rights Treaty Law: A Matter of Right(s)

IDP Returns and Armed Conflict: Treaty and Customary Norms

‘Voluntariness, Safety and Dignity’: Development of the Return Principles

‘Voluntariness, Safety and Dignity’: Basis and Scope in International Law

Colombia 1997-2007: Conflict, Desplazados and Law

Desplazado Returns in Law and Policy: A Colombian Conceptual Model

Implementing Returns: Local Committees and Return Plans

Safeguarding Returns: The Armed Forces and State Authority

The Centrality of ‘Collaboration’: Non-State Armed Groups and Returns

In the Eye of the Storm: Desplazado Returns and Agency

Beyond the Balkans: Returns, Armed Conflict and Colombia

Appendix 1: Rionegro Province, Cundinamarca Department

Appendix 2: Montes de María Region: Bolívar and Sucre Departments

Appendix 3: Magdalena Medio Region: Santander Department

Appendix 4: Sur de Bolívar Region: Bolívar Department

Appendix 5: Oriente Antioqueño: Antioquia Department

Appendix 6: Nariño Department

Appendix 7: Cundinamarca Department

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-36436-6

OCLC:

1045038665

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004364363 DOI