Africa

Drawing on recent research in the Horn of Africa, emerging patterns of managing forced migration in the post-Cold War landscape are identified and analyzed. While camps continue to house refugees, tbe meaning and value of 'refugee' have changed dramatically since the Cold War. Efforts to prevent people from crossing political borders to seek safety are increasing, giving rise to a new set of safe spaces. These new spaces are expressions of a distinct geopolitical discourse and take the names 'UN protected area', 'preventive zone', and 'safe haven'.

This document is a report on the Brookings Institution-UNHCR-OAU Workshop on Internal Displacement in Africa, which was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on October 19-20, 1998. The primary purpose of the workshop was to focus attention on the problem of internal displacement in Africa and to identify ways of improving the response to that problem at the national, regional and international levels. The report of the workshop contains recommendations that should prove of value to governments and organizations working with the internally displaced.

This report summarizes 14 presentations given at the above-mentioned symposium.