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

• Superior document: International Refugee Law
• Author: Cantor, David James.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: International Refugee Law Series 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (673 pages).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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). Ind...

Table of 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.