ABSTRACT
Grounded in multidisciplinary research, this book presents a methodical understanding of those displaced within their national borders, the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
The IDP phenomenon remains less understood than that of refugees due to the "internal" nature of the crisis, linked to a nation’s sovereignty, which assigns the responsibility for care to the national actors as opposed to an international body. However, the IDP phenomenon poses an international humanitarian challenge, with upwards of 40 million people currently in internal displacement across the globe. This book helps answer the most perplexing questions surrounding conflict-induced protracted displacements: namely, how do positions embraced by key actors inform/influence IDP policies, and why, despite the promise of robust return packages, do families remain reluctant to return to home communities and equally reluctant to embrace new host communities? Capitalizing on the diagnostic tool kit known as Dugan’s Nested Model, uniquely adapted to the Kashmiri Pandit displacement, this book also analyzes issues of the similarly displaced communities of Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Kosovo, and Darfur regions.
This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, humanitarianism, Asian politics, and International Law in general.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|2 pages
Global phenomenon of internal displacement, Kashmiri Pandits, research challenges, and family legacies
section Section II|2 pages
Kashmiri Pandit challenges and the dilemma of return
section Section III|2 pages
Policies, assessment, positions, and complexity of policymaking
section Section IV|2 pages
Understanding Kashmiri Pandit displacement through a comparative lens
section Section V|2 pages
Findings, best practices, and moving forward