This research focuses on the role that International Human Rights Law, policy and legislation should play in the protection of the rights of internally displaced children against child marriage. This thesis examines international treaties and domestic laws that purport to prohibit the practice of child marriage with particular attention to laws relating to the protection of internally displaced children (IDPs). / Mini Dissertation (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Law (LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa). Prepared under the supervision of Dr Lana Baydas at the Department of Law, American University in Cairo, Egypt. 29 October 2007 / www.chr.up.ac.za / Centre for Human Rights / LLM

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The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which existing law could provide a legal basis for the protection of cross-border, climate change displaced persons, with a particular focus on Southern Africa. Before such an analysis can be made, however, it is important first to determine what climate change displacement exactly implies. By means of integrating and refining existing legal terminology and ideas the study attempts to disentangle the international contention on the subject and proposes that individuals who are forced from their countries of habitual residence as a reaction primarily to climatic push factors which pose an existential threat to their right to life are most in need of protection and may be referred to as cross-border climate change displaced persons. As climate change displacement is expected to occur primarily on the sub-regional geopolitical level of governance, the inclusion of regional, AU, and sub-regional, SADC, elements is important for the practical feasibility of this study. Southern Africa's particular vulnerability to the effects of climate change, making the advent of large numbers of climate change displaced persons in the area a reasonable prediction for the future, further justifies this study's chosen scope. After analysing the different legal branches of refugee law, human rights law and environmental law for each geopolitical level of governance referred to, this study concludes that: While there are several potential provisions in law that could provide protection to persons displaced by climate change, a sufficient protection framework can be derived only from the composite characteristics of different branches of law. Therefore, it is recommended that a matrix approach is followed when providing legal protection to climate change displaced persons. Because different fields of law provide more prominent protection in different spheres of governance, it is also recommended that the configuration of a legal protection matrix be adjustable to particular circumstances. It is therefore suggested that a legal protection mechanism is developed for each geopolitical sphere, and that different mechanisms are coordinated internationally. / LLM (Environmental Law and Governance), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which existing law could provide a legal basis for the protection of cross-border, climate change displaced persons, with a particular focus on Southern Africa. Before such an analysis can be made, however, it is important first to determine what climate change displacement exactly implies. By means of integrating and refining existing legal terminology and ideas the study attempts to disentangle the international contention on the subject and proposes that individuals who are forced from their countries of habitual residence as a reaction primarily to climatic push factors which pose an existential threat to their right to life are most in need of protection and may be referred to as cross-border climate change displaced persons. As climate change displacement is expected to occur primarily on the sub-regional geopolitical level of governance, the inclusion of regional, AU, and sub-regional, SADC, elements is important for the practical feasibility of this study. Southern Africa's particular vulnerability to the effects of climate change, making the advent of large numbers of climate change displaced persons in the area a reasonable prediction for the future, further justifies this study's chosen scope. After analysing the different legal branches of refugee law, human rights law and environmental law for each geopolitical level of governance referred to, this study concludes that: While there are several potential provisions in law that could provide protection to persons displaced by climate change, a sufficient protection framework can be derived only from the composite characteristics of different branches of law. Therefore, it is recommended that a matrix approach is followed when providing legal protection to climate change displaced persons. Because different fields of law provide more prominent protection in different spheres of governance, it is also recommended that the configuration of a legal protection matrix be adjustable to particular circumstances. It is therefore suggested that a legal protection mechanism is developed for each geopolitical sphere, and that different mechanisms are coordinated internationally. / LLM (Environmental Law and Governance), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

O presente trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa desenvolvida com sujeitos pertencentes a populações oriundas de comunidades rurais de regiões da cordilheira dos Andes que foram atingidas pela violência durante as décadas do conflito armado interno no Peru, de 1984 a 2000. O principal objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as narrativas de vida desses sujeitos, considerando-se a memória como processo de reconstrução, essencial para ressignificar a vida na cidade após esse processo migratório traumático. Nessa análise, tecemos uma discussão acerca dos Direitos Humanos em situações de conflito armado e a condição de deslocados internos em relação aos refugiados. Nossos sujeitos deslocaram-se forçadamente, expulsos do campo rumo à reconstituição da vida em uma região urbana, no terceiro Estado mais pobre do Peru. Esse contexto apresentou problemas em relação ao modo de vida dessas pessoas que viviam imersas em sua cultura andina, em que a adoração à Mãe Terra é o centro das relações comunitárias, até que a experiência de deslocamento forçado os alcançou. Em busca da compreensão da constituição desses sujeitos, esta dissertação se fundamenta principalmente nos conceitos de memória de Halbwachs (2003, 2004) e Bosi (1994, 2003), de experiência de Benjamin (2012) e Larrosa (2002) e de narrativa de vida de Bertaux (2010). Apresentamos uma discussão sobre a memória como resistência e como arma, segundo propõe Schilling (2009). E discorremos sobre a ruralidade, conforme propõe Carneiro (1997), enquanto dimensão que perpassa a identidade de nossos sujeitos. A pesquisa foi realizada em uma abordagem qualitativa e utilizamos, como procedimentos metodológicos, a entrevista de caráter biográfico e a observação de campo. Por ter sido um processo de imersão, pautamo-nos nas entrevistas do tipo etnográfico, conforme considerado por Beaud e Weber (2007), ou seja, entrevistas realizadas no contexto estudado, porque não estão isoladas nem são independentes da situação de pesquisa, já que levam em conta a realidade social a que pertencem esses narradores. Nas análises, buscamos refletir sobre as narrativas de violência, considerando as práticas culturais que caracterizam esse grupo social, e o reconstruir da vida na cidade após o processo migratório, no sentido de entendermos a constituição desses sujeitos na condição de violência e desenraizamento. Escolhemos a violência como núcleo de significação porque são as ações do conflito armado que marcam profundamente esses sujeitos de forma a promover o intenso fluxo de migração forçada da população do campo para a cidade. Procuramos entender de que forma a violência surge nas narrativas de lembranças e marca esses sujeitos, tendo em vista as rupturas com a comunidade de pertencimento e implicações para a vida. E também analisamos as histórias contadas pelos sujeitos, com vistas ao período que antecedeu à migração e ao que se relaciona à reconstrução da vida no contexto urbano, quando eles passam à condição de deslocados internos. Interessou-nos conhecer de que forma a memória colaborou com esse processo de reedificação em relação à cultura como eixo estrutural desses indivíduos. / This work is the result of a research developed with subjects in populations from rural communities in the Andes mountains regions that were affected by violence during the decades of internal armed conflict in Peru, from 1984 to 2000. The aim of this study was to analyse the life narratives of these subjects, by considering memory as a reconstruction process, essential to reframe life in the city after this traumatic and migration process. In this analysis, we have a discussion about human rights in situations of armed conflict and also on the condition of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in relation to refugees. Our subjects were forced to move, expelled from the countryside towards the reconstitution of life in an urban context, the third poorest state of Peru. This context shows problems compared to Andean lifestyle, where the worship of Mother Earth is the center of community relations, until their forced displacement experience reached them. In pursuit of understanding of these subjects structures, this thesis is based mainly on the concepts of memory of Halbwachs (2003, 2004) and Bosi (1994, 2003), experience as conceived by Benjamin (2012) and Larrosa (2002) and life narrative of Bertaux (2010). It also brings a discussion about memory as resistance and as a weapon, as proposed by Schilling (2009) and a discussion about rurality, as proposed by Carneiro (1997), as a dimension that permeates our subjects identities. The research was conducted in a qualitative approach using as methodological procedures biographical interview and field observation. Because it was an immersion process, we rely on ethnographic interviews as considered by Beaud and Weber (2007), i.e. interviews in the research context since they are not isolated nor are independent of the research situation as they consider the social reality to each one of the tellers belongs. In the analyses, we try to reflect about the narratives of violence, considering cultural practices that characterize this social group, and the rebuilding of life in the city after the migration process, in order to understand the constitution of these subjects on conditions of violence and uprooting. We chose violence as a meaning core because these actions of the armed conflict deeply marked these subjects in order to promote the intense flow of forced migration of rural people to the city. We seek to understand how violence emerges in narratives of remembrances and affects these subjects, bearing in mind the disruption with the community of belonging and implications for life. And we analysed the stories told by the subjects, concerning the period previous to the migration and the one related to the reconstruction of life in the urban context, when they their condition became of IDPs. We were interested in knowing how memory collaborated with this process of rebuilding in relation to culture as a structural axis of these individuals

Submitted by Elesbão Santiago Neto (neto10uepb@cche.uepb.edu.br) on 2018-05-16T19:15:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Igor Henriques Sabino de Farias.pdf: 43642403 bytes, checksum: 74f590c3743109c75d9820a458b64f7d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-16T19:15:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Igor Henriques Sabino de Farias.pdf: 43642403 bytes, checksum: 74f590c3743109c75d9820a458b64f7d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-26 / CAPES / This dissertation discusses the influence of religion on International Relations (IR). Its general objective is to emphasize the importance of religion as one of the explanatory variables of contemporary international politics. In order to do so, it uses concepts from the English School to analyze the increase in the number of internally displaced persons due to religious persecution in Iraq after the rise of the terrorist group Islamic State between 2006 and 2014. It is therefore argued that there is a relation between the two facts. In order to verify this assumption and achieve the general objective of the research, the main religious elements that can influence international relations are classified, emphasizing the concepts of non-state religious actor and transnational religious issues. It then discusses how these elements can be understood in the light of the main theories of IR, such as Realism, Liberalism, Constructivism and English School, but emphasizes the latter. It is also conceptualizes terms such as internal displacement and religious persecution, with reference to the main sources of international law. Finally, it is demonstrated, through analysis of the official propaganda of the Islamic State, how Islamic religious elements were used by the group in order to persecute Christians and Yazidis in Iraq. This fact caused a large number of internally displaced persons due to religious persecution in the country. It is concluded, therefore, that, although religion is still an explanatory variable of IR neglected in the academic world, it is increasingly present in events of international politics, especially after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. / Esta dissertação discute a influência da religião nas Relações Internacionais (RI) e tem como objetivo geral ressaltar a importância da religião enquanto uma das variáveis explicativas da política internacional contemporânea. Para isso, utiliza-se de conceitos da Escola Inglesa para analisar o aumento do número de deslocados internos por perseguição religiosa no Iraque após a ascensão do grupo terrorista Estado Islâmico, entre 2006 e 2014. Defende-se, portanto, que existe uma relação entre os dois fatos. A fim de verificar esse pressuposto e alcançar o objetivo geral da pesquisa, classifica-se os principais elementos religiosos que podem influenciar as relações internacionais, dando ênfase aos conceitos de ator religioso não estatal e questões religiosas transnacionais. Em seguida, discute como esses elementos podem ser compreendidos à luz das principais teorias de RI, como Realismo, Liberalismo, Construtivismo e Escola Inglesa, ressaltando, porém, essa última. Conceitua-se também termos como deslocado interno e perseguição religiosa, tendo como referente as principais fontes de Direito Internacional. Por fim, é demonstrado, por meio da análise da propaganda oficial do Estado Islâmico, como elementos religiosos islâmicos foram instrumentalizados pelo grupo a fim de perseguir cristãos e yazidis no Iraque. Fato que ocasionou um grande número de deslocados internos por perseguição religiosa no país. Conclui-se, portanto, que, embora a religião ainda seja uma variável explicativa das RI negligenciada no meio acadêmico, está cada vez mais presente em eventos da política internacional, sobretudo após os atentados terroristas do 11 de setembro de 2001.

O presente trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa desenvolvida com sujeitos pertencentes a populações oriundas de comunidades rurais de regiões da cordilheira dos Andes que foram atingidas pela violência durante as décadas do conflito armado interno no Peru, de 1984 a 2000. O principal objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as narrativas de vida desses sujeitos, considerando-se a memória como processo de reconstrução, essencial para ressignificar a vida na cidade após esse processo migratório traumático. Nessa análise, tecemos uma discussão acerca dos Direitos Humanos em situações de conflito armado e a condição de deslocados internos em relação aos refugiados. Nossos sujeitos deslocaram-se forçadamente, expulsos do campo rumo à reconstituição da vida em uma região urbana, no terceiro Estado mais pobre do Peru. Esse contexto apresentou problemas em relação ao modo de vida dessas pessoas que viviam imersas em sua cultura andina, em que a adoração à Mãe Terra é o centro das relações comunitárias, até que a experiência de deslocamento forçado os alcançou. Em busca da compreensão da constituição desses sujeitos, esta dissertação se fundamenta principalmente nos conceitos de memória de Halbwachs (2003, 2004) e Bosi (1994, 2003), de experiência de Benjamin (2012) e Larrosa (2002) e de narrativa de vida de Bertaux (2010). Apresentamos uma discussão sobre a memória como resistência e como arma, segundo propõe Schilling (2009). E discorremos sobre a ruralidade, conforme propõe Carneiro (1997), enquanto dimensão que perpassa a identidade de nossos sujeitos. A pesquisa foi realizada em uma abordagem qualitativa e utilizamos, como procedimentos metodológicos, a entrevista de caráter biográfico e a observação de campo. Por ter sido um processo de imersão, pautamo-nos nas entrevistas do tipo etnográfico, conforme considerado por Beaud e Weber (2007), ou seja, entrevistas realizadas no contexto estudado, porque não estão isoladas nem são independentes da situação de pesquisa, já que levam em conta a realidade social a que pertencem esses narradores. Nas análises, buscamos refletir sobre as narrativas de violência, considerando as práticas culturais que caracterizam esse grupo social, e o reconstruir da vida na cidade após o processo migratório, no sentido de entendermos a constituição desses sujeitos na condição de violência e desenraizamento. Escolhemos a violência como núcleo de significação porque são as ações do conflito armado que marcam profundamente esses sujeitos de forma a promover o intenso fluxo de migração forçada da população do campo para a cidade. Procuramos entender de que forma a violência surge nas narrativas de lembranças e marca esses sujeitos, tendo em vista as rupturas com a comunidade de pertencimento e implicações para a vida. E também analisamos as histórias contadas pelos sujeitos, com vistas ao período que antecedeu à migração e ao que se relaciona à reconstrução da vida no contexto urbano, quando eles passam à condição de deslocados internos. Interessou-nos conhecer de que forma a memória colaborou com esse processo de reedificação em relação à cultura como eixo estrutural desses indivíduos. / This work is the result of a research developed with subjects in populations from rural communities in the Andes mountains regions that were affected by violence during the decades of internal armed conflict in Peru, from 1984 to 2000. The aim of this study was to analyse the life narratives of these subjects, by considering memory as a reconstruction process, essential to reframe life in the city after this traumatic and migration process. In this analysis, we have a discussion about human rights in situations of armed conflict and also on the condition of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in relation to refugees. Our subjects were forced to move, expelled from the countryside towards the reconstitution of life in an urban context, the third poorest state of Peru. This context shows problems compared to Andean lifestyle, where the worship of Mother Earth is the center of community relations, until their forced displacement experience reached them. In pursuit of understanding of these subjects structures, this thesis is based mainly on the concepts of memory of Halbwachs (2003, 2004) and Bosi (1994, 2003), experience as conceived by Benjamin (2012) and Larrosa (2002) and life narrative of Bertaux (2010). It also brings a discussion about memory as resistance and as a weapon, as proposed by Schilling (2009) and a discussion about rurality, as proposed by Carneiro (1997), as a dimension that permeates our subjects identities. The research was conducted in a qualitative approach using as methodological procedures biographical interview and field observation. Because it was an immersion process, we rely on ethnographic interviews as considered by Beaud and Weber (2007), i.e. interviews in the research context since they are not isolated nor are independent of the research situation as they consider the social reality to each one of the tellers belongs. In the analyses, we try to reflect about the narratives of violence, considering cultural practices that characterize this social group, and the rebuilding of life in the city after the migration process, in order to understand the constitution of these subjects on conditions of violence and uprooting. We chose violence as a meaning core because these actions of the armed conflict deeply marked these subjects in order to promote the intense flow of forced migration of rural people to the city. We seek to understand how violence emerges in narratives of remembrances and affects these subjects, bearing in mind the disruption with the community of belonging and implications for life. And we analysed the stories told by the subjects, concerning the period previous to the migration and the one related to the reconstruction of life in the urban context, when they their condition became of IDPs. We were interested in knowing how memory collaborated with this process of rebuilding in relation to culture as a structural axis of these individuals

Some 5 million people were classified as internally displaced in Colombia at the end of 2012, which represented about 10 per cent of the population and the highest number in the world at the time. Colombia differs from other countries with high levels of displacement in that it is comparatively politically stable, has effective national institutions, a relatively strong formal economy, and can by no means be described as a ‘failed’ or ‘failing’ state. The displacement literature tends to characterise the phenomenon as a humanitarian crisis and a side effect of the long-running civil war. But Colombians continue to be displaced in very large numbers despite the formal demobilization of the paramilitaries in 2006 and the diminished military capacity and engagement of the guerrillas since about the same period: the same groups that are widely regarded as being the main perpetrators of displacement. This thesis contends that displacement of the civilian population in Colombia is frequently not a consequence of violence, but rather the primary objective, where violence plays a facilitatory role. Moreover, the thesis asserts that these massive levels of displacement are substantively linked to predominantly economically-motivated logics and are regionally specific. By examining an agricultural commodity that has significantly expanded relatively recently in Colombia - African palm oil - this research examines if and how expanded cultivation may be linked to displacement. Using a political economy framework of analysis combined with empirical fieldwork, it explores the ‘localised displacement logics’ whereby land is coercively acquired by powerful local groups. The thesis concludes that the abandonment and dispossession of land from poor and marginalised groups constitutes part of an ongoing process of capitalist expansion and statebuilding in Colombia. Contrary to assertions that it is the intra-state conflict that constitutes the central obstacle to development, Colombia’s current trajectory of capitalist development may actually be a central obstacle to sustainable peace and not lead to an end to displacement.

Today, an estimated 65,3 million people are reported as forcibly displaced globally. This figure includes 40,8 million people who are considered to be internally displaced within their own country and therefore rely upon the protection of their state. State sovereignty implies that the main responsibility for the protection of its people lies with the state. In situations where the state fails or is unwilling to fulfill its duty to protect the population, the principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) can be applied to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The purpose of this study is to review to what extent R2P provides protection for the rights of internally displaced persons and how R2P relates to the notion of human security. The theoretical framework is based on the concepts of human dignity, sovereignty, human security and R2P. Argumentation analysis was used in order to be able to compare the different arguments within the R2P discourse to determine whether the principle provides legitimate means for protection or not. The study shows that R2P provides several legitimate means for the protection of internally displaced people. Especially when it comes to measures preventing people from becoming displaced. However, the protection measures towards people already internally displaced can in several instances be regerded as insufficent and illegitimate. This is mainly due to the fact that the UN can undermine the legitimacy of the principle e.g. by obstructing aid support with veto decisions or lack strategies for reconstruction. The cooperation with other actors (AU, ICC) also shows that the protection of internally displaced persons may vary between states.

Internally Displaced Persons ('IDPs') outnumber refugees by two to one and often have the same fears, needs and wants as refugees recognised as such under international law. However, refugee status entails international protection, while IDPs are left to the protection of their own state, which may, but by no means necessarily, be the very entity that has forced them to flee in the first place. In recent years, there have been significant developments in the realm of IDP protection. This includes the conclusion of two regional treaties on the protection of IDPs, the development of relevant soft law instruments, and the reformed 'Cluster Approach' of humanitarian response. Although the increased focus on IDP protection is a welcome development, the UNHCR has expressed the fear that 'activities for the internally displaced may be (mis)interpreted as obviating the need for international protection and asylum.' This thesis represents the first legal analysis of the relationship between the protection of IDPs and International Refugee Law. It will discuss five key challenges in this respect. First, the challenge of drawing the attention of the international community to the plight of IDPs; second, the challenge of developing an appropriate framework for the protection of IDPs; third, the challenge of ensuring that internal protection is not interpreted as a substitute for asylum; fourth; the challenge of determining the relationship between complementary protection and internal displacement; and fifth, the challenge of ensuring that IDP protection in an inter-agency context does not trigger the application of Article 1D of the Refugee Convention, rendering the Convention inapplicable to the recipients of that protection. This thesis will conclude by setting out the future challenges in the relationship between IDP protection and International Refugee Law, by identifying questions left open for further research, and by illustrating the overall impact and importance of this thesis' findings.