State Policy of a Country With Occupied Regions Towards Internally Displaced Persons: Case of Georgia

State Policy of a Country With Occupied Regions Towards Internally Displaced Persons: Case of Georgia

Manana Darchashvili
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6334-5.ch010
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Abstract

After the end of the Cold War, the issue of expelled citizens due to the violation of human rights and internally displaced persons (IDPs) has become an issue of urgent judgment. At the modern stage, a lot is being done to create such an international system that responds to the needs of IDPs. However, the development of a full-fledged legal framework, institutional arrangements, and strategies to solve difficulties remains an international challenge. Georgia's state bodies, when solving the problems of internally displaced persons (IDPs), act following the Constitution of Georgia, other legislative and subordinate normative acts of Georgia, universally recognized human rights, and norms stipulated by international law. The problem of the displaced population is one of the most important challenges for the country, and active work has been going on to solve it for many years. The steps taken by the state concerning the IDPs are always the subject of public interest because the state has special obligations towards the IDPs.
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The presented question is an important challenge of our time, therefore, a wide range of scientists and researchers was raised. This is natural because it is true that all democratic countries agree that internally displaced persons have the right to enjoy the same rights in free equality as the rest of the country's citizens. However, the fact is that in practice, they rarely manage to do this, because forced displacement is itself an act against human rights.

The chapter analyzes the work of Cecile Dubernet The International Containment of Discpaled Persons, Humanitarian Spaces without Exit, which discusses the post-Cold War intervention, and the concept of displaced persons (displaced persons) actively established in international relations. An understanding of forced displacement issues such as ethnic cleansing needs and humanitarian action was developed. The author examines the attitude towards displaced persons and concludes that the interventions supported by the UN regarding internally displaced civilians were important primarily because they were concerned with preventing the population from fleeing from conflict areas (Dubernet, 2021).

Key Terms in this Chapter

South Ossetia: Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia (formerly South Ossetia Autonomous Oblast) is located on the southern slope of the Central Caucasus in the northern part of Georgia. Tskhinvali region is bordered by the Russian Federation in the north.

Georgia: An independent, sovereign state in the South Caucasus.

War: An organized armed struggle that can be waged by states, peoples participating in national liberation struggles, as well as parties to an ongoing armed conflict within the state to achieve economic and political goals.

Russia: Russia is a federal state with 83 federal entities. Its land border is the largest in the world and ranks first in the world in terms of area.

Conquest: Subjugation by force, war, appropriation.

Politics: The art of managing society and the state.

Displaced Persons: According to the legislation of Georgia, a citizen of Georgia or a stateless person permanently residing in Georgia, who was forced to leave his permanent place of residence and move (within the territory of Georgia) to endanger his life, health or freedom of his family members due to aggression of a foreign country, internal due to conflict or mass human rights violations.

Abkhazia: Historical-geographic part of Georgia, in the northwest of the country, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, with the status of an autonomous republic.

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