Returns of Internally Displaced Persons During Armed Conflict: International Law and Its Application in Colombia

by David James Cantor

By 2017, it was estimated that over 40 million people were displaced within their own countries by conflict and violence across at least 56 countries worldwide. Solutions to the epidemic of forced internal displacement are frequently premised on the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Indeed, as a characteristic need of IDPs, such returns benefit from a special protection framework developed by IDP protection instruments such as the Guiding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004202668
• ISBN13: 9789004202665
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
• Length: 674 Pages