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The World's Refugee Epidemic |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Vera Laska |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 1,202 Words, 7,788 Characters |
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EXODUS WITHIN BORDERS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CRISIS OF INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT
By David A. Korn
Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999
pp. vii-147, $22.95 hardcover, illustrated
The first thing to keep in mind about this slender volume is that it is based on the in-depth study entitled Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement by Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng, published also by the Brookings Institution Press, in 1988. Thus, serious researchers and people who intend to do something about the problem of internally displaced persons should turn for details to that book, plus its companion volume, The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced. This reviewer would also recommend perusing the periodical <...
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More realistically, as if not trusting the likelihood of success in preventing displacement, the next principle states that, "Displacement shall not be carried out in a manner that violates the rights of life, dignity, liberty and security of those affected" (pp. 130-131).
Now let us wish for a sequel that will spell out practical solutions.
© 1999 International Journal on World Peace
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