scholarly journals Forgiveness and politics: Reading Matthew 18:21–35 with survivors of armed conflict in Colombia

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Heimburger ◽  
Christopher M. Hays ◽  
Guillermo Mejía-Castillo
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Safe Environment ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Do So

After decades of armed conflict in Colombia, how do those most affected by that conflict understand forgiveness? While others have researched Colombians’ views of forgiveness, this study is the first to do so through discussion of a narrative of forgiveness. Readings of the biblical narrative chosen for this study, the Parable of the Unforgiving Debtor (Mt 18:21–35), can enable North Atlantic scholars to discover dimensions of the parable revealed by those who live lives that mirror the realities of the parable, unlike such scholars. The study aims to understand how conflict survivors, especially internally displaced persons (IDPs), understand forgiveness and its relation to politics. The study also aims to identify how these women and men read Matthew 18:21–35 differently from academics. Groups in eight locations around Colombia discussed Matthew 18:21–35. Researchers led lectura popular de la Biblia [people’s readings of the Bible], inviting participants to say how the parable related to their lives and to discuss the political consequences that would come from imitating characters in the parable. Conflict survivors said that forgiving was essential if their communities were going to be communities at all, especially communities at peace, offering freedom and economic opportunity. Unlike commentators, they read Matthew 18:21–35 as enjoining forgiveness towards those beyond their local church and for wrongs involving money and violence. As Colombian churches seek to counter resentment with forgiveness, they should be aware of the power of lectura popular, especially of this parable, to create a safe environment where conflict survivors can speak candidly.

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

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  

The ICRC and internally displaced persons

1995 ◽  
Vol 35 (305) ◽  
pp. 181-191
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Article 5

According to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the 1977 Protocols additional thereto, the mandate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) applies in both international and noninternational armed conflict situations. The States party to the Geneva Conventions have also recognized the ICRC's right to propose activities in behalf of victims of internal strife, by adopting the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (Article 5, para. 2d, of the Statutes).

scholarly journals RECENT DEVELOPMENTS. THE ELABORATION OF A LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE PROTECTION OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN AFRICA

2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHALOKA BEYANI
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Habitual Residence ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Recent Developments

The aim of this article is to draw on contemporary developments relating to the elaboration of a binding legal framework for the treatment of internally displaced persons in Africa. By definition, internally displaced persons are “persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of, or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State border”.

Migration, migrants, and human security

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bandana Purkayastha
Keyword(s):  
Forced Migration ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Do So

This introductory article outlines a framework to bridge some of the current fragmentation and knowledge hierarchies in the sociological field of migration. The article builds on the insights – and epistemological roots – used in different parts of the world to reflect on 21st-century realities of migration and human security. It considers international migrants, internally displaced persons, refugees and trafficked persons as part of a continuum of migrants who exhibit seasonal, temporary and long-term migration patterns. The framework draws upon the scholarship of the Global South and North on political-economic processes that have historically influenced migration and migrants’ lives and continue to do so today. It considers the dominant approach used in studies of international migration and shows why it is necessary to go beyond the focus on nation-states and an emphasis on a particular group of migrants. The framework weaves the insights of scholars who work on international, internal migration and forced migration, as well as the critical literatures on intersectionality and human rights to build an approach that centers questions of migrants’ human security. The framework emphasizes the glocal – i.e. intersecting global-national-local – terrains of migration and discusses human security within glocal terrains.

Refugees and internally displaced persons — International humanitarian law and the role of the ICRC

1995 ◽  
Vol 35 (305) ◽  
pp. 162-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Lavoyer
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Geneva Conventions

The main purpose of this brief study is to show the importance of international humanitarian law, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977, for internally displaced persons, i.e. persons displaced within their own country, and to refugees, i.e. persons who have fled their country. Not only does this body of international law protect them when they are victims of armed conflict, but its rules — if scrupulously applied — would make it possible to avoid the majority of displacements.

Assessing Civil Liability for Harms to Women during Armed Conflict: The Rulings of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-605
Author(s):  
Lucy Reed
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Jus In Bello ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Jus Ad Bellum ◽  
Descriptive Account

AbstractThis article provides a descriptive account of rulings of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission (EECC) related to harms inflicted during the Ethiopia-Eritrea armed conflict that disproportionately affected women. Following the introduction, it presents a brief overview of the creation of the EECC and its jurisdiction, procedure and rulings. It then discusses the EECC's rulings on sexual violence, describing the special considerations for applying its standard and quantum of proof in relation to liability and damages in rape claims. The next part focuses on the import of the EECC's rulings in relation to expelled and other displaced civilians (including internally displaced persons), who were largely women and other vulnerable populations. Although the EECC did not, for the most part, find displacement itself to be a violation of the jus in bello, it did award significant amounts of compensation for harms suffered by expelled and displaced civilians and for relief provided to such persons, who were predominantly women and other vulnerable populations, as well as for Eritrea's violation of the jus ad bellum.

scholarly journals Tierra quemada by Óscar Collazos as an Allegory of Displacement in Colombia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Reindert Dhondt
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Cycle Of Violence ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
The Impact

Through the portrayal of never-ending march of a caravan of internally displaced persons (IDPs), the novel Tierra quemada (2013) by the Colombian author Óscar Collazos explores the interrelation between different forms of violence and their devastating impact on the peripheric outposts of Colombia. This article proposes an allegorical reading of the novel by examining how it represents the difficulty to break the cycle of violence and the impact of a low-intensity conflict on the IDPs, without presenting a voyeuristic perspective of the violence nor a Manichean vision of the armed conflict.

scholarly journals The Experience of Internally Displaced Women in Urban Areas of Western Turkey

1970 ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Cariona Vine ◽  
Serpil Taskan ◽  
Amy Pepper
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Internal Displacement ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Western Turkey ◽  
Armed Struggle ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Kurdistan Workers Party

According to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (Guiding Principles), internally displaced persons (IDPs) refers to any person or group of persons who involuntarily had to leave their home or habitual settlements, without crossing an internationally recognized state border, especially in order to protect themselves from the consequences of armed conflict (UN Commission on Human Rights, 1998). There are an estimated 25 million IDPs worldwide and approximately 1 million in Turkey alone (Deng, 2003). In the 1980s and 1990s, an armed struggle between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish Armed Forces resulted in significant levels of internal displacement in Turkey.

scholarly journals Rozszerzenie przestrzeni integracyjnej osób wewnętrznie przesiedlonych: implementacja na Ukrainie polskiego doświadczenia wspomagania rodzin

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 133-147
Author(s):  
Oksana Iwankowa-Stetsiuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Polish Experience ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Similar Experience

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the implementation process of the Polish experience of supporting IDPs families in Ukraine, which envisages the harmonization of the efforts of professionals to help families as an specific integrities. A similar experience is important for Ukraine during the armed conflict in the eastern territories of the country, which in turn leads to an increase in the number of internally displaced families who are struggling with their own specific problems and needs, including the need to expand the integration space. The article uses the materials of the joint project of Caritas Ukraine and Caritas Polska "Establishing a family support center due to the model of integration of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities in Ukraine", implemented with the author's participation in 2017-2019 as part of the cooperation program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.

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