Understanding refugee durable solutions by international players: Does dialogue form a missing link?
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2018
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Cogent OA
Abstract
This study evaluates durable solutions in relation to refugees from East
Africa. It particularly focuses on the Great Lakes countries of Rwanda, Burundi,
Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The study is based on the conviction that
these four countries have never had peaceful transfer of power which in essence has
been a major contributing factor to political violence that has caused forced mass
migration in the region to this day. The use of force or military suppression has been a
norm since independence of these countries in the early 1960s. This suppression has
continuously forced many people to flee their homes facing abuse of their human
rights, dictatorship, persecution, indiscriminate arrests, ethnic wars and political
violence. Based on a survey used to collect data and in-depth interviews with selected
refugees from the Great Lakes region living in Cape Town, South Africa, this paper seeks
to understand durable solutions through analysing the current refugee situation. It
demonstrates that durable solutions can present both challenges and solutions. It also
revisits the concept of durable solutions and seeks to re-evaluate whether these
various solutions offer a chance for dialogue. With the aid of a legal perspective on the
refugee situation in the region, the paper qualifies the concepts of dialogue as a
mechanism for peace building as well as driver for voluntary repatriation.
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Forced migration, Dialogue, Durable solutions, Refugees
Citation
Bidandi, F. (2018). Understanding refugee durable solutions by international players: Does dialogue form a missing link? Cogent Social Sciences, 4: 1510724