Seeking Safety: Urban and Rural Displacement in Civil Wars Abbey Steele

http://www.yale.edu/cpworkshop/papers/Steele.pdf

As Steele argues in the article one of the common concerns of humanitarian scholarship tends to be on what produces the displacement and wether if is voluntary or involuntary, with long and imbricated debates over the pertinence of one or another term for appropriately discuss the nature of the phenomenon. However, how people are displaced is also a relevant question that needs to be asked. Not only because the patters of community building are necessarily different from rural to urban communities, but also because it is important to see how those new communities that are formed could also become enclaves or continuations of the conflict that originated the displacement, or if on the other hand, they are simply a new beginning, for the communities that resettle.