FMR 33 - Protracted displacemenT

published September 2009

Contents

From the editors

Spotlight on: Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: a question of rights

Protecting housing rights for IDPs in Sri Lanka
Todd Wassel

Understanding the challenge
Gil Loescher and James Milner

Doubly forgotten
Thais Bessa

Riding on the back of a tortoise
Abebe Feyissa Demo

Listening to the experiences of the long-term displaced
Dayna Brown and Kathryn Mansfield

Crisis and displacement in Somalia
Anna Lindley

Addressing core problems
Hassan Noor

Repatriation to Afghanistan: durable solution or responsibility shifting?
Susanne Schmeidl

Unfinished business: IDPs in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Erin Mooney and Naveed Hussain

Europe's IDPs still marginalised
Nadine Walicki

Darfur: a way of life lost
Natalie Ondiak and Omer Ismail

Comprehensive solutions: a ‘whole-of-government’ approach
Adèle Dion

Daring to dream of an end to exile in sub-Saharan Africa
Marjon Kamara

Local integration in West Africa
Alistair Boulton

Durable solutions for Burundian refugees in Tanzania
Jessie Thomson

Burundi: seven years of refugee return
Andreas Kirchhof

Refugees: asset or burden?
Patricia A Ongpin

Refugee resources: Sri Lankan Tamils in India
Indira P Ravindran

Displacement shock and recovery in Cyprus
Peter Loizos

Local integration for refugees in Serbia
Miloš Teržan and Dejan Kladarin

Displacement, decentralisation and reparation in post-conflict Peru
Gavin David White

Peacebuilding in displacement
Tammi Sharpe and Silvio Cordova

Importance of access to financial services
Sue Azaiez

Hope and opportunities for young people
Jenny Perlman Robinson and Shogufa Alpar

Sudanese refugee youth ‘gangs’ in Cairo
Themba Lewis

Activism among a new generation of Palestinian exiles
Maher Bitar

Use of housing vouchers in Georgia
Andrew Golda

Confidence-building measures in Western Sahara
Edward Benson

Refugees and mobility
Giulia Scalettaris

A regime at a loss?
Jean-François Durieux

Mini-feature: Collective centres

A missing element of ‘camp management’
Damian Lilly

When ‘temporary’ lasts too long
Erin Mooney

General articles

Rights and responsibilities in Darfur
Katherine Reyes

South Africa’s smugglers’ borderland
Tesfalem Araia and Tamlyn Monson

Regulars

RAISE Initiative
IDPs in Colombia: needs and challenges
Andrés Quintero L and Tegan A Culler

Norwegian Refugee Council
Towards a humanitarian climate change agreement
Vikram Kolmannskog

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Protracted Muslim displacement in Sri Lanka
Kavita Shukla

Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
Internal displacement and peace mediation
Andrew Solomon

Community resilience in rural East Timor
Pyone Myat Thu