Understanding refugee durable solutions by international players: Does dialogue form a missing link?

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dc.contributor.authorBidandi, Fred
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-22T08:18:35Z
dc.date.available2018-10-22T08:18:35Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationBidandi, F. (2018). Understanding refugee durable solutions by international players: Does dialogue form a missing link? Cogent Social Sciences, 4: 1510724en_US
dc.identifier.issn2331-1886
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2018.1510724
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/4148
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherCogent OAen_US
dc.rights� 2018 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectForced migrationen_US
dc.subjectDialogueen_US
dc.subjectDurable solutionsen_US
dc.subjectRefugeesen_US
dc.titleUnderstanding refugee durable solutions by international players: Does dialogue form a missing link?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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