Cities of Refuge in the Middle East : Bringing an Urban Lens to the Forced Displacement Challenge
This policy note aims to advance our understanding of urban forced displacement, induced by conflict, by looking at the issue from the perspective of receiving towns and cities. It explores why we need a different approach to addressing urban force...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/922371511267498593/Cities-of-refuge-in-the-Middle-East-bringing-an-urban-lens-to-the-forced-displacement-challenge http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28901 |
| Summary: | This policy note aims to advance our
understanding of urban forced displacement, induced by
conflict, by looking at the issue from the perspective of
receiving towns and cities. It explores why we need a
different approach to addressing urban forced displacement;
how to “think differently” about urban forced displacement
along the humanitarian-development assistance spectrum; what
we can learn from existing urbanization and other relevant
experiences to inform humanitarian and development
responses; and what “thinking differently” means for local,
national, and international development actors. The primary
audiences of the note are development and humanitarian
practitioners as well as policy makers who are increasingly
confronted with the urban dimensions of protracted forced displacement. |
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