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Researching Internal Displacement offers a platform for publishing short pieces of writing, artistic productions and other research outputs, policy briefings and think pieces on internal displacement from our networks and others in a conversational and informal setting. We hope that the posts will be engaging and insightful, and welcome comments on the pieces.
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Researching Internal Displacement publishes engaging and insightful short pieces of writing, artistic and research outputs, policy briefings and think pieces on internal displacement.
We welcome contributions from academics, practitioners, researchers, officials, artists, poets, writers, musicians, dancers, postgraduate students and people affected by internal displacement.
Disaster-Induced Internal Displacement in India in 2020: A Review
By Chhaya Bhardwaj
| December 17, 2021
Considering movement in the context of COVID-19 is critical for understanding the actual scale of internal displacement in the context of disasters that occurred in India in 2020
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Housing, Land and Property Rights for Syrian Women in Contexts of Internal Displacement: Challenges and Opportunities
By Mhd Ekbal Anak
| November 25, 2021
Promoting better access to housing, land and property rights for Syrian women will be essential for supporting solutions to internal displacement in the context of peacebuilding and recovery from protracted conflict
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Experiencing internal displacement: poetic artistic work of collective action based on narrative testimonial material
By Francesca Randazzo Eisemann
| November 17, 2021
This artistic poetic text draws on narrative testimonial material from a small group of community garden volunteers in Honduras who share a first-hand experience of internal displacement
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Experimentar el desplazamiento: Obra artística poética de acción colectiva en base a material testimonial narrativo
By Francesca Randazzo Eisemann
| November 17, 2021
Esta obra artística poética se basa en material narrativo testimonial de un pequeño grupo de voluntarios de un huerto comunitario en Honduras que comparten la experiencia del desplazamiento interno
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VIDEO-DANCE: Standing up for Life (ENG)
By Ana María Oviedo Cifuentes
| October 17, 2021
This video-dance combines contemporary dance, video and audio as memory and poetic tribute to the history of the artist's grandparents who were internally displaced from their place of origin in Colombia
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VIDEO-DANZA: La vida para defenderla (ESP)
By Ana María Oviedo Cifuentes
| October 17, 2021
Es una vídeo-danza donde convergen la danza contemporánea, el vídeo y el audio como memoria y homenaje poético a la historia de mis abuelos quienes fueron desplazados de su lugar de origen y por casualidades cósmicas de la vida terminaron radicándose en Bogotá, ciudad donde nací, crecí y vivo actualmente
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Justice or Charity? Climate Change in the UN High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement Report
By Brian Aycock, Carolien Jacobs and Ana Mosneaga
| October 13, 2021
The High-Level Panel report opens up the space for promoting a more nuanced understanding of displacement in the context of climate change, but stops short from framing it as an issue of climate justice. (Part of the IDRP Blog Series on the UNSG High Level Panel report.)
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Civil Society and the High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement: Will the Vision for the Future Challenge the Status Quo?
By Jerome Elie
| October 6, 2021
Based on direct involvement in the Panel process over the past two years and contacts with civil society, this piece sheds light on important questions for civil society. What has been the role of non-governmental organizations in this process? How has civil society received the recommendations contained in the Panel’s report? And how do they see the way forward? (Part of the IDRP Blog Series on the UNSG High Level Panel report.)
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UN High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement: Can a new development-based approach bring solutions to this global crisis?
By David Cantor and Gabriel Cardona-Fox
| September 30, 2021
A potentially ground-breaking independent UN panel report launched this week proposes robust mechanisms to promote a development-based approach to help resolve the crisis of protracted internal displacement. (Part of the IDRP Blog Series on the UNSG High Level Panel report.)
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