National security of Somalia and it’s challenges

Ongoing armed conflict, insecurity, lack of state protection, and recurring humanitarian crises exposed Somali civilians to serious abuse. There are an estimated 2.6 million internally displaced people (IDPs), many living unassisted and vulnerable to abuse. Somalia's history of conflict reveals an intriguing paradox--namely, many of the factors that drive armed conflict have also played a role in managing, ending, or preventing war.

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The challenges of internally displaced persons and the way forward: the Nigerian experience

University of Cape Coast Law Journal ◽

10.47963/ucclj.v1i1.221 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 17-36

Author(s):

Agbo Friday Ojonugwa

Keyword(s):

Armed Conflict ◽

Internal Displacement ◽

Internally Displaced Persons ◽

Displaced Persons ◽

Internally Displaced ◽

Lasting Peace ◽

History Of ◽

Displaced People ◽

The Government ◽

Peace And Development

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are usually forced to flee or leave their homes, particularly in situations of armed conflict. They are displaced within their national territories and are generally subject to heightened suffering and vulnerability in many cases. It is also essential to state that the issue of internal displacement has become prominent because of the realisation that peace and reconstruction in conflict-ridden societies depend on the effective settlement and reintegration of displaced persons. Nigeria is a country that has a history of conflicts and displaced people. There has been a challenge in finding lasting peace through the employment of conflict resolution techniques and also the challenge of catering for the welfare of internally displaced persons in the country. However, peace and development without taking into account the settlement, return, and reintegration of IDPs. These desirous objectives are proving quite difficult in Nigeria as many challenges confront the government, policymakers, and humanitarian NGOs in providing the IDPs with their rights and needs. Some of the challenges can easily be overcome while some are more tasking requiring concerted efforts and massive resources to overcome. The aim of this article is to highlights the significant challenges confronting IDPs and provides some solutions to these challenges. In adopting the doctrinal method in discussions, the article finds that enormous challenges abound that confront IDPs in Nigeria, and it finds that there is the need for the government to find urgent solutions to the challenges of IDPs for the wellbeing of IDPs

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IDPs in Colombia: The necessary step towards effective protection

Deusto Journal of Human Rights ◽

10.18543/aahdh-3-2006pp115-166 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 115-166

Author(s):

Elodie Guego

Keyword(s):

Political Violence ◽

Small Farmers ◽

Modern History ◽

Effective Protection ◽

Internally Displaced ◽

Internally Displaced People ◽

Regular Army ◽

History Of ◽

Drug Cartels ◽

Displaced People

The modern history of Colombia has been tied up to conflict and socio-political violence, directly linked to struggles over land and power, and the economic marginalisation of small farmers. The conflict is composed by a patchwork of guerrilla groups, paramilitary groups, poor farmers, drug cartels, and the regular army, which engage in criminal activities such as massacres against communities, selective assassinations and forced disappearances or use of anti-personal landmines, resulting in thousands of civilian victims and humanitarian catastrophes. The most notorious outcome of this catastrophe is the continuing phenomenon of Forced Displacement. This article is aimed at outlining the steps that need to be taken in order to effectively protect Internally Displaced People (IDPs).Published online: 11 December 2017

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Kirimli Community in Lviv: A New Home or a Temporal Shelter?

Visnyk of the Lviv University Series International Relations ◽

10.30970/vir.2019.47.0.10983 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Nataliya Shalenna

Keyword(s):

National Security ◽

Religious Identity ◽

International Security ◽

Mutual Recognition ◽

Local Environment ◽

Internally Displaced ◽

Internally Displaced People ◽

Western Ukraine ◽

Displaced People ◽

Crimean Tatar

The Crimean Tatars, who managed to preserve their ethnic, cultural and religious identity through the most difficult trials of history, nowadays have been undergoing severe times due to the developments in Crimea. Russia’s annexation of the peninsular on 18 March 2014 caused almost immediate wave of the first internally displaced people of the Crimean Tatar community arriving in western Ukraine. Compared to only 20 Crimean Tatars who used to live in Lviv before 2014, now their number increased to nearly 2 000. Accordingly, a persistent work has been carried out aimed at mutual recognition and perception of the confessional, cultural and historical originality of two nations – the Ukrainians and the Crimean Tatars. The suggested paper is aimed at analyzing the peculiarities of Crimean Tatars’ integration into Lviv local environment. The Lviv Kırımlı Community is considered to be not homogenous due to different purposes of their moving from Crimea and because of different perception of Lviv (or continental Ukraine in general) in their plans for future life. Generally, Crimean Tatars are positively perceived in Lviv and western Ukraine not only due to compassion for the encumbrances they had to face but also because they are viewed as vitally important in solving the problem of Crimea. Therefore, it is also important to determine the main reasons of this issue to get politicized within the local and nation-wide contexts. Key words: Crimean Tatars; identity; Russian annexation of Crimea; internal population migration; Ukraine; Russian Federation; Crimean Tatar community in Lviv; social security; national security; international security

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Education Policy in South Sudan: Between the Peace Agreement, the Armed Conflict, the Villages and the Camps for the Internally Displaced People

American Journal of Educational Research and Reviews ◽

10.28933/ajerr-2018-09-2301 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Education Policy ◽

Armed Conflict ◽

South Sudan ◽

Peace Agreement ◽

Internally Displaced ◽

Internally Displaced People ◽

Displaced People

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Renaming and Reclaiming Urban Spaces in Ukraine: The Perspective of Internally Displaced People

Nationalities Papers ◽

10.1017/nps.2021.26 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Valeria Lazarenko

Keyword(s):

Armed Conflict ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Internally Displaced ◽

Internally Displaced People ◽

Soviet Time ◽

Rapid Transition ◽

Displaced People ◽

National Biography ◽

Ukrainian Society

Abstract For more than six years, Ukrainian society has been constantly searching for ideas as to how to write a new “national biography.” In a society divided by armed conflict, the so-called decommunization process is considered to be an idea capable of uniting a nation. This process started back in 2015, with the passing of a specific law that required not only the deconstruction of Soviet-time monuments in public spaces, but also a huge decommunization of place names. The article will explore the main practices of place (re-)naming during the different stages of the decommunization (but not de-ideologization) of spaces, as well as describing the problems that may emerge in society as a result of a rapid transition from one narrative to another. Based on a case study of spatial identities of internally displaced people, I am going to answer the question of how people perceive renamed spaces, and how they reclaim and re-appropriate these spaces in the midst of an identity crisis.

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Gender Analysis of the Impact of Recent Humanitarian Crises on Women, Men, Girls, and Boys in Puntland State in Somalia

10.21201/2021.7482 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Kasey Ochiltree ◽

Iulia Andreea Toma

Keyword(s):

Care Work ◽

Gender Analysis ◽

Internally Displaced ◽

Education And Health ◽

Internally Displaced People ◽

Humanitarian Crises ◽

The World ◽

Foreign Office ◽

Displaced People ◽

The Impact

Situated in a complex region of the world, Puntland State in Somalia is dealing with a range of threats and instabilities such as droughts, floods, locusts, the movement of internally displaced people (IDPs), and armed actors. COVID-19 has added yet another strain on its tremendously fragile infrastructure. The impact of the pandemic has been far reaching, affecting livelihoods and hampering unpaid and underpaid care work and responsibilities. The multitude of crises and rates of inflation have left the majority of families food insecure and without income, halted education and health services, and exacerbated existing vulnerabilities and the incidence of violence. This gender analysis was conducted and funded by the German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO), in partnership with Oxfam in Somalia and KAALO, to better help local government bodies, agencies, NGOs, and INGOs grasp the differentiated impact of the crises on women, men, boys, and girls, and host and IDP communities, during this time of intense loss and instability. The analysis provides an overview of the experiences of the affected communities, and gives recommendations on how to address immediate concerns and plan future programming.

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