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Dangerous Sanctuaries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Dangerous Sanctuaries

Since the early 1990s, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Africa have led to the international spread of civil war. In Central Africa alone, more than three million people have died in wars fueled, at least in part, by internationally supported refugee populations. The recurring pattern of violent refugee crises prompts the following questions: Under what conditions do refugee crises lead to the spread of civil war across borders? How can refugee relief organizations respond when militants use humanitarian assistance as a tool of war? What government actions can prevent or reduce conflict?To understand the role of refugees in the spread of conflict, Sara...

Transnational Dynamics of Civil War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

Transnational Dynamics of Civil War

Combining innovative theory with detailed case studies, this book offers a novel account of the border-crossing processes of civil war.

Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States

Current global estimates of children engaged in warfare range from 200,000 to 300,000. Children's roles in conflict range from armed and active participants to spies, cooks, messengers, and sex slaves. Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States examines the factors that contribute to the use of children in war, the effects of war upon children, and the perpetual cycle of warfare that engulfs many of the world's poorest nations. The contributors seek to eliminate myths of historic or culture-based violence, and instead look to common traits of chronic poverty and vulnerable populations. Individual essays examine topics such as: the legal and ethical aspects of child soldiering; internal UN...

The Law of International Humanitarian Relief in Non-International Armed Conflicts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 492

The Law of International Humanitarian Relief in Non-International Armed Conflicts

  • Categories: Law

"The book covers the entire scope of conflicting rights and duties of the fighting parties and international humanitarian relief actors in non-international armed conflicts, namely from the moment of the initiation of international humanitarian relief actions till their authorisation and throughout the consecutive stages of the delivery of relief"--

Transitional Settlement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

Transitional Settlement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Oxfam

Included on CD-ROM: Shelter training : a training tool complementling the Transitional settlement: displaced populations guidelines; Shelter library : key documents for the transitional settlement and shelter sector.

Survival Migration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Survival Migration

International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations. Because these reasons do not meet the legal understanding of persecution, the victims of these circumstances are not usually recogniz...

Weapons of Mass Migration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Weapons of Mass Migration

At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the mid-2000s would appear to share little in common. Yet each of these seemingly unconnected and far-reaching foreign policy decisions resulted at least in part from the exercise of a unique kind of coercion, one predicated on the intentional creation, manipulation, and exploitation of real or threatened mass population movements. In Weapons of Mass Migration, Kelly M. Greenhill offers the first systematic examination of this widely deployed but...

The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Migration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 673

The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Migration

Twenty-nine specialists offer their perspectives on migration from a wide variety of fields: political science, sociology, economics, and anthropology.

Protracted Refugee Situations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 97

Protracted Refugee Situations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Protracted refugee populations not only constitute over 70% of the world's refugees but are also a principal source of many of the irregular movements of people around the world today. The long-term presence of refugee populations in much of the developing world has come to be seen by many host states in these regions as a source of insecurity. In response, host governments have enacted policies of containing refugees in isolated and insecure camps, have prevented the arrival of additional refugees and, in extreme cases, have engaged in forcible repatriation. Not surprisingly, these refugee populations are also increasingly perceived as possible sources of insecurity for Western states. Refugee camps are sometimes breeding grounds for international terrorism and rebel movements. These groups often exploit the presence of refugees to engage in activities that destabilise not only host states but also entire regions.

The Post-Conflict Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

The Post-Conflict Environment

A critique of the technocratic neoliberal paradigm of peacebuilding