While the plight of persons displaced within the borders of states has emerged as a global concern, not much attention has been given to this specific category

Despite the fact that there are up to 25 million internally displaced persons around the world, their plight is still little known. Like refugees, internally di

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are persons who have been forced to leave their places of residence due to armed conflict, human rights violations, and natu

This volume examines the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) through an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on IDPs in Africa. The novelty of thi

Orchard argues that while an international IDP protection regime exists, many aspects of it are informal, with IDP issues bound up in a humanitarian regime comp