ABSTRACT
In the changing environment of global project financing, the international financial institutions' standards on Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement (DIDR) cover only a fraction of cases and their capacity to monitor and evaluate DIDR outcomes. The development ethics values framework, Jay Drydyk defines the entitlements of displaced people as appropriate means of achieving worthwhile development. The entitlement to empowerment is particularly instrumental for both procedural and consequential justice, which in turn requires information dissemination, space for negotiation, facilitation and management, and compliance protection. The tradition has continued with this chapter, Koenig identifies common strategies of urban activists by cross-examining multiple DIDR cases and likewise Kavanagh delineates from different cases in Myanmar how DIDR-affected people resist, negotiate and claim rights in the absence of proper governance and legal protection. DIDR is an inherently complex phenomenon involving socio-spatial changes, time-consuming processes with long-lasting implications and multiple stakeholders of varying interests and power.
