WORKING PAPERS

ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT

Our Working Papers on Internal Displacement series publishes original research on internal displacement and internally displaced persons.

The series provides an Open Access platform for publishing high-quality paper-length research by members of the networks hosted on the Researching Internal Displacement website as well as by other researchers on internal displacement.

Working Papers are prominently displayed as a resource for scholars and practitioners worldwide. Papers may be submitted in English, French, Spanish or Arabic. See the criteria for publication here.

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As a ‘one-stop shop’ for outputs from the networks hosted on the Researching Internal Displacement website, the series also reprints Working Papers published by those networks, including the IDRP Working Paper Series and GENIDA Working Papers.

For further information, and to submit a paper to the Working Papers on Internal Displacement, please contact the series Editor:

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Working Paper No. 49 By Steven Miron, Dyuti Tasnuva Rifat, Tanjib Islam | Oct 21, 2025
Foregrounding the voices of people living in three different communities of displacement in Bangladesh, this field research and advocacy report examines the nexus of climate change, loss and damage and displacement. This comprehensive report highlights promising interventions by Bangladeshi civil society organisations that have helped internally displaced people (IDPs) living in protracted displacement move toward durable solutions. It also examines positive developments on the policy front, including Bangladesh's fledgling National Strategy on Internal Displacement Management (NSIDM). At the same time, it calls attention to how Bangladesh's protracted displacement crisis remains under acknowledged and therefore under addressed in national policy and programming. The findings and recommendations in this report are intended to inform the UNFCCC's Loss and Damage mechanism – the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), the Santiago Network for Loss and Damage (SNLD) and the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) ExCom, including its Taskforce on Displacement. Each must urgently demonstrate its commitment to addressing the growing displacement crisis and supporting durable solution programming. The report's findings and recommendations are also relevant to intergovernmental, governmental and civil society organisations working in and outside Bangladesh. Furthermore, the report suggests how conventional durable solutions approaches to displacement must evolve to remain relevant in a world of escalating losses and damages resulting from climate change.
RID Working Paper No. 48 By Ana Paredes Marín y Alejandra Barrios Ariano | Jul 3, 2025
This Working Paper shows that women's experiences of forced internal displacement in Guatemala's Dry Corridor reveal how hydrometeorological events, such as hurricanes and droughts, exacerbate structural inequalities, including gender inequalities.
RID Working Paper No. 48 By Ana Paredes Marín y Alejandra Barrios Ariano | Jul 3, 2025
Este documento de trabajo muestra que las experiencias de desplazamiento forzado interno de mujeres en el Corredor Seco de Guatemala evidencian cómo los eventos hidrometeorológicos, como huracanes y sequías, agravan las desigualdades estructurales entre esas, la de género.
Working Paper No. 47 By Marco Puzzolo | May 15, 2025
This study contributes to the literature on conflict-driven displacement in post-colonial States. Focusing on the case study of Kenya, it examines internal displacement from a historical and decolonial perspective, analysing the interplay of colonial legacies, ethnicity, political violence, and land. While recent displacements in Kenya have been driven primarily by weather-related disasters, the paper argues that the underlying causes of contemporary conflict displacements are deeply rooted in ethno-political violence stemming from the country’s colonial history.
RID Working Paper No. 46 By Abigayil Parr | Nov 21, 2024
The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in the world today is higher than ever, with limited prospects of durable solutions for many. While a ‘patchwork’ of international norms and institutions attempt to guide responses to internal displacement, these do not always present a consistent view. This paper seeks to explore the different approaches to securing durable solutions for IDPs used by national authorities and international actors in two countries with large populations of displaced people: South Sudan and Somalia. In doing so, it attempts to contribute to the relatively limited existing literature on this topic.
RID Working Paper No. 45 By Guita G. Hourani | Oct 8, 2024
This paper contextualizes the internal displacement of more than 94,000 individuals from South Lebanon amid the ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and Israel following Hamas's "Al-Aqsa Deluge" operation in October 2023. It investigates the causes of displacement, particularly within the Christian community, by analyzing various push factors deriving from the activities of the Israeli military, Hezbollah and the Lebanese government.
RID Working Paper No. 44 By Tegan Mosugu, Tufayl Olamilekan Adelakun, Oluwatoyosi Amurawaiye | Sep 26, 2024
This working paper explores how gender dynamics intersect with power structures to exacerbate conditions for internally displaced women (IDW) in camps in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe (BAY) states in Nigeria. It also emphasizes the necessity for interventions that address intersectional dynamics and vulnerabilities.
RID Working Paper No. 43 By Amy Rodgers and Matthew Hemsley | Jul 11, 2024
This paper examines how early responses to internal displacement crises in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen have utilised best practice guidance from the durable solutions approach, by engaging with government actors and other authorities as well as contributing to space for longer-term programming and the eventual realisation of solutions to displacement.
RID Working Paper No. 42 By Succeed Musora | Jun 6, 2024
This paper focuses on examining the extent of community engagement in relation to project induced displacement in Zimbabwe, where communities across the country have been displaced or threatened with displacement by government and private companies with little or no consultation at all. The author uses Cernea’s Risk and Reconstruction Model of Displacement to identify and describe the negative consequences of displacement absent community engagement, which include landlessness, joblessness, and food insecurity. The paper calls on the government of Zimbabwe and other actors to uphold their legal and moral obligations to the community under relevant African Union and Zimbabwean legal frameworks.