A new issue of the Forced Migration Review was published in May 2016 with a focus on displacement, transition and solutions. Featured articles include a joint contribution from UN Special Rapporteur on human rights of IDPs and JIPS, focusing on challenges and opportunities for improving analysis of durable solutions in situations of internal displacement to inform response.
The most widely read publication on forced displacement, published by the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University, this edition of FMR tackles the complicated subject of transition and solutions in displacement response. Including articles from the World Bank, UNHCR, UNDP, Asylum Access, NRC, DRC and various independent and academic experts this edition includes a range of experience and case studies from contexts as varied as Colombia, Uganda, Myanmar and Burundi, Lebanon, Syria and Ecuador.
JIPS’ contribution, drafted in collaboration with the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of IDPs, Dr Chaloka Beyani, discusses conceptual challenges and practical solutions to improve the analysis of internal displacement and thereby inform solutions-oriented policies and programming.
Alongside co-authors (JIPS’ Coordinator, Natalia Krynsky Baal and the Legal Adviser to the Special Rapporteur, Martina Caterina), the authors draw on their combined experience related to the political, operational, and practical challenges in this area of work. They continue to highlight the opportunity of using the existing IASC Framework for durable solutions for IDPs and ongoing work being undertaken with partners to operationalise this framework and develop a global toolkit for analysing durable solutions and developing a comprehensive baseline against which to monitor progress over time in specific contexts.
Read the full article on ‘Conceptual challenges and practical solutions in situations of internal displacement’ here page 39.
Read more about the joint project ‘Informing responses to durable solutions for IDPs’.
