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Book Launch Event (Hybrid): Responding to internal displacement in a shifting humanitarian landscape
Thursday 7 May I 18:00 – 19:00 BST I Followed by a drinks reception.
Hybrid: ODI Global, 4 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA and online. This launch event brings together four of the Handbook's authors to reflect on the importance of a renewed focus on internal displacement for engaging with key challenges for humanitarian work in a rapidly shifting global context. Event details and registration information below.
Apr 22, 2026
The Oxford Handbook of Internal Displacement is now available digitally and in print. To order, contact your preferred print or eBook supplier, institutional library or the publisher. See what people are saying about this groundbreaking publication.
By RID | Apr 14, 2026
The displacement of people within their own countries due to crises such as conflicts, disasters, and the effects of climate change is a major contemporary challenge, eliciting global concern about how to protect the displaced. The vast scale of this 'internal displacement' poses far-reaching questions for key debates around humanitarian aid, development, migration, sovereignty, rights, citizenship, identity, and social change. Yet knowledge of the issue is fragmented and highly dispersed across a range of academic and policy domains.
This groundbreaking new publication brings together 45 contributions by leading researchers and practitioners, providing an essential point of reference for advancing these debates and raising the profile of internal displacement as a vital concern for research and policy agendas.
By United Nations Human Rights | Jun 27, 2025
A new report by the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur, examines the phenomenon of internal displacement in the context of organised criminal activity. Experts at the Refugee Law Initiative's Internal Displacement Research Programme provided submissions to the report. Their submissions were subsequently published as a collection by Researching Internal Displacement.
By UNHCR | Jun 21, 2025
UNHCR’s Global Report on Law and Policy on Internal Displacement: Implementing National Responsibility 2025 is now available in English, Spanish and French, with the Arabic version available soon. Coordinated, researched and drafted by Martina Caterina (UNHCR, Division of International Protection) and Prof. David Cantor (University of London, Director of the Refugee Law Initiative), the report presents an overview – global and by region - of key legal and policy instruments and developments related to prevention, protection and solutions for IDPs. The report assesses how the response to internal displacement is framed by domestic law and policy on internal displacement and examines the institutional response in selected countries.
By Refugee Law Initiative | Jun 21, 2025
Held on 14-15 March 2024, this online conference marked the culmination of five years of increasing international engagement with the pressing challenge of ‘solutions’ to internal displacement. It provided a forum for researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and students from all disciplines to come together to present, debate and reflect on ‘solutions’ to internal displacement and their future.
By Internal Displacement Research Programme | Sep 12, 2023
This online conference on 14-15 March 2024 marks the culmination of five years of increasing international engagement with the pressing challenge of ‘solutions’ to internal displacement. Registration now open!
By GENIDA | May 23, 2022
This GENIDA webinar discusses and reframes reframes internal displacement challenges in the Sahel region
By MERNID / HIDN | Mar 3, 2022
This MERNID webinar, held in collaboration with the Health and Internal Displacement Network (HIDN), addresses issues of IDP health in the Middle East region