Internally displaced persons Archives

CB 2011 Preview | Attitudes towards IDPs in Georgia

30 May, 2012

The presence of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) within Georgia is testimony to its internal and cross-border conflicts. IDPs often face a life in limbo, unable to return to their homes and reliant on friends, family and the generosity of strangers…

Does Refusal to Recognize Elections in Abkhazia Reduce Prospects for Resolution?

12 September, 2011

A recent New York Times article argues that the failure of Western governments to recognize the latest presidential elections in Abkhazia on August 26, 2011 may hamper conflict resolution. According to the authors, Cooley and Mitchell, Western governments have a “counterproductive disdain”…

C-R Policy Brief on IDP Attitudes to Conflict, Return, Justice

5 May, 2011

In March, Conciliation Resources (C-R) has published a report on IDP attitudes to conflict, return and justice, which we have already highlighted in a previous blog-post. As you may recall, this report was based on a survey of IDPs which CRRC…

Georgians on Abkhazia: What Is to Be Done?

21 March, 2011

By Sonya Kleshik One of the previous CRRC blogs discussed some results from CRRC’s recent survey called “IDPs in Georgia” which gauged the opinions and attitudes of IDPs displaced from Abkhazia during the 1992-1993 conflict towards return, conflict resolution…

IDPs in Georgia – Attitudes towards return, conflict resolution and justice

17 March, 2011

Under which conditions would IDPs be willing to return to Abkhazia? Should past injustices be addressed or left alone? What do IDPs consider the main reasons for the outbreak of the war in the early 1990s? The research project “IDPs…

Research on Education of IDP Children in Georgia

14 April, 2010

On 29 March the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) held a presentation in Tbilisi of the research report “Not Displaced, Out-of-Place – Education of IDP children in Georgia”. The research project examines the academic performance of children in so-called Abkhaz public IDP schools…

Results from the Georgia IDP Housing Voucher Program

26 September, 2007

The Urban Institute, with the help of IPM, just finished a summative survey of their “Georgia IDP Voucher Program,” funded by the US State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. (N.B. a voucher is a promised subsidy towards the cost…