Answering the call of scholars and international aid agencies, Cantor presents a detailed study of the return of conflict-affected internally displaced people under international law. He begins by setting out the existing international law in such terms as human rights treaty law, armed conflict: treaty and customary norms, the development of the return principles, and the basis and scope of international law. Then he examines the implementation of that law in Colombia from 1997 to 2007. Among the topics are desplazado returns in law and policy: a Colombian conceptual model implementing returns: local committees and return plans safeguarding returns: the armed forces and state authority, non-state armed groups and returns, and desplazado returns and agency. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This book presents a detailed study of the return of conflict-afffected internally displaced persons (IDPs) under international law. Part I of the book undertakes a wide-ranging analysis of the scope of protection under existing international law for IDP returns. Part II addresses the implementation of the international framework in practice through a case study of the national law, policy and practice of IDP returns during the most intense ten years of the armed conflict in Colombia. Part III, the conclusion, draws together these diffferent strands of analysis.
