Project: Refugees and Forced Displacement: International Security, Human Vulnerability and the State
This research project examines a range of issues and challenges that arise out of refugees and displaced people in modern conflict and international relations. The objective is to highlight the theoretical, normative and policy implications attached to human displacement. A number of results have been generated: Refugees and human displacement can be both a cause and a consequence of conflict within societies and regionally. As such, the management of refugee movements and the protection of displaced people should be an integral - not peripheral - part of security policy and conflict management. At the same time, refugees and forcibly displaced people can represent the starkest example of a tension between 'human security' - where the primary focus is the individual and communities - and more conventional models of 'national security' tied to the sovereign state. This project addresses a number of pressing problems, covering international law, internally displaced persons, asylum, the actors and institutions involved in refugee protection, and the return and reintegration of displaced people. In doing so, it argues that there is a need to reappraise the legal, political, normative, institutional and conceptual frameworks through which the international community addresses refugees and displacement.See the forthcoming UNU Press book:
Refugees and Forced Displacement:
International Security, Human Vulnerability and the State,
edited by Edward Newman and Joanne van Selm
Contents
| Part I: Political, Security and Normative Perspectives | |
| Refugees, International Security and Human Vulnerability: Introduction and survey | Edward Newman |
| Refugees as Grounds for International Action | Gil Loescher |
| Refugees, Displacement and International Relations: Concepts in Conflict | Gary Troeller |
| Refugee Protection Policies and Security Issues | Joanne van Selm |
| Human Security and the Protection of Refugees | Astri Suhrke |
| Thinking Ethically About Refugees: A case for the transformation of global governance | Mervyn Frost |
| The Early Warning of Forced Migration: State or Human Protection? | Susanne Schmeidl |
| Part II: Displacement, Return and Resettlement | |
| Towards a Protection Regime for Internally Displaced Persons | Erin D. Mooney |
| Reconciling Control and Compassion? Human Smuggling and the Right to Asylum | Khalid Koser |
| Post-Conflict Peace-building and the Return of Refugees: Concepts, Practices and Institutions | B.S.Chimni |
| Long-Term Challenges of Conflict Reconstruction and Reintegration: Case Studies of Haiti and Bosnia | Patricia Weiss Fagen |
| Sovereignty, Gender and Displacement | Julie Mertus |
| Part III: Actors and Institutions | |
| Securitizing Sovereignty? States, Refugees, and the Regionalization of International Law | Gregor Noll |
| A New Tower Of Babel? Reappraising the Architecture of Refugee Protection | William Maley |
| Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Media images of refugees and asylum seekers | Peter Mares |
| Changing Roles of NGOs in Refugee Assistance | Mark Raper |