New Bibliography on Internal Displacement

New Bibliography on Internal Displacement

The Brookings-CUNY Project on Internal Displacement has just published a
Selected Bibliography on the Global Crisis of Internal Displacement.
Authored by Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, this 73-page bibliography compiles and
catalogues available materials on internally displaced persons. It
contains more than 800 items.

The bibliography includes various thematic categories: basic texts and
sources of information, web resources, early writings on internal
displacement, general overview of displacement caused by conflict and human
rights violations, displacement caused by development projects, legal
framework including the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement,
institutional framework, vulnerable groups, protection strategies, return,
resettlement and reintegration, and development strategies.

Geographical categories include region specific listings for Africa, the
Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Europe and 56 individual country
listings.

According to Project Co-Directors Roberta Cohen and Francis Deng, this
publication "is intended to prove useful to both scholars and practitioners
interested in gaining a better understanding of internal displacement and
the national, regional and international strategies being developed to
address the needs of those displaced."

The bibliography is available in PDF format from the Brookings-CUNY Project
on Internal Displacement website: www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/idp.htm

If you would like to receive a hard copy of this publication please contact
Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli at [email protected] The author would also be
pleased to receive from you any additional materials you believe should be
included in future editions of this bibliography, please forward these items
to the address below:

Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli
Research Analyst
Brookings-CUNY Project on Internal Displacement
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036