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Victims to Vanguards: Displaced Yet Determined

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The journey of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) begins when due to a conflict situation they are forced to flee their homes and are unable to return to their native habitat even after several years have lapsed from the episodes of ethnic violence. Facing the dilemma of being homeless at home they struggle to build their lives amidst changed meanings and contours of their citizenship. Internal displacement can be read from three different lenses of conflict-induced displacement, climate-related displacement and displacement due to developmental projects. Each of these three categories receives differing response from the state. Amidst the pertinent need for a public policy on the rehabilitation of the people displaced due to ethnic violence in India, this chapter shall attempt to traverse with the conflict-induced IDPs in their journey from being victims to becoming vanguards for their community.

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    Roberta Cohen, (2004) “The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: An Innovation in International Standard Setting”, Global Governance, Volume 10, No. 4 pp. 459–480.

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    UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, UN Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Francis M. Deng, submitted pursuant to Commission Resolution 1997/39. Addendum: Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (11 February 1998) E/CN.4/1998/53/Add.2.

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    In December 1991, UNDRO was incorporated into the newly established Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA), which has since become the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

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    Keith Holtermann, Erik Gaull, and Ray Lucas, (1998) “Disaster Dimension” cited in W. Courtland Robinson, Risks and Rights: The Causes, Consequences, and Challenges of Development-Induced Displacement [An Occasional paper: The Brookings Institution-SAIS Project on Internal Displacement, Washington DC], May 2003, p. 9.

  5. 5.

    Michael M. Cernea is Professor of Anthropology and International Relations at George Washington University. He has extensively written and published on the themes of development, social change, population resettlement, grassroots organizations, and participation.

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    Michael M.Cernea, (2004) Impoverishment Risks, Risk Management, and Reconstruction: A Model of Population Displacement and Resettlement, paper presented at the UN Symposium held in Beijing, October 27–29, 2004, pp. 18–26.

  7. 7.

    See Robert Muggah, (2000), “Through the Developmentalist’s Looking Glass: Conflict-Induced Displacement and Involuntary Resettlement in Colombia.” In Journal of Refugee Studies 13(2): 133–164. Also see Theodore E. Downing, 2002, “Avoiding New Poverty: Mining-Induced Displacement and Resettlement” (International Institute for Environment and Development), p. 3.

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    UNHCR website, http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c125.html

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    To read more on Janvikas please visit http://janvikas.in/

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Seth, S. (2022). Victims to Vanguards: Displaced Yet Determined. In: Chowdhory, N., Banerjee, P. (eds) Gender, Identity and Migration in India. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5598-2_16

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