ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the findings of the study and compares them to current understandings of action regarding internally displaced persons (IDPs). It explores the implications of the claims for policy and research design. The chapter outlines research topics which can bring forth new perspectives on forced displacement policies. It also highlights the dangers that researchers face when they remain unclear about the aims of the policies investigated. To conclude on media issues, the chapter indirectly questioned the idea that news media automatically improves the lot of displaced persons, and that aid workers and journalists can easily team up to help devastated populations. Even the 1992 UN working definition of IDPs, it reflects fears of uncontrolled population movements. Interveners, including leading humanitarian agencies, both designed and implemented containment approaches for uprooted persons using the provision of safety as a policy tool.
