Forcible Displacement Throughout the Ages

Grant Dawson, Juris Doctor (1999), Georgetown University Law Center, is a Legal Officer at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. A member of the bars of New York and Washington, DC, he has published several articles on international criminal law.Sonia Farber, Juris Doctor (2010), Berkeley School of Law, is an Associate practicing in the International Dispute Resolution Group at Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP. She is a member of the bar of New York and author of Forgotten at Guantanamo: The Boumediene Decision and Its Implications for Refugees at the Base Under the Obama Administration, published in the California Law Review (2010).

• About the Authors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One The Origins of Humanity, Agriculture, and Intrahuman Armed Conflict Chapter Two Examples of Forcible Displacement1. The Sack of Troy: A Mytho-Historic Account; 2. The Babylonian Captivity: Displacement in the Ancient World; 3. The Muslim Conquest of North Africa: The Dispersement of the Berbers;4. The Incas: An Early Example of Mass Population Transfer for Territorial Gain;5. The Moors: Expulsion for Religious Purposes; 6. The Highland Clearances: Displacement in the Name of Economic Progress;7. Aborigines in Australia: A Story of Land Dispossession and Violence;8. Crimean Tatars in the former USSR: Ethnically Motivated Displacement in the Name of Politics;9. The Bangladesh War of Independence: Conflict and Displacement;10. The Three Gorges Dam: Justifying Displacement in the Name of Progress; Chapter Three Law of Forcible Displacement1. Definitions;1. The Nuremberg Trials: Early Attempts to Legally Define Forcible Displacement;2. Humanitarian Law ;3. Human Rights Law;4. Regional Human Rights Treaties;5. Soft Law Instruments;6. Security Council Resolutions;7. The International Court of Justice;Chapter Four The Modern Tribunals1. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: The Great Experiment;2. The Rwanda and Sierra Leone Tribunals;3. The International Criminal Court;Chapter Five Shifting the Displacement Paradigm from Compartmentalisation Towards Inclusion1. The Debate upon IDP Protection;2. The Debate upon the Revitalisation of Refugee Law;3. Displacement as an Element of Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide;4. Case Studies of Conflict-Related Displacement;5. Development-Induced Displacement;Chapter Six Broadening the Concept of Forcible Displacement to Include Development-Induced Displacement1. Development and Its Costs;2. The Inclusion of Development-Induced Displacement within the Human Rights Law Discourse;3. Regions Affected;4. Existing Institutional Protections;5. International Instruments Prohibiting Development-Induced Displacement;Chapter Seven A Contemporary Domestic Case Study Forcible Displacement in Colombia1. A Short History;2. Causes and Consequences;3. Limitations of the Current Structures;4. Departure-Oriented Versus Arrival-Oriented Displacement;Chapter Eight A Proposal for an International Convention to Prevent and Punish Forcible Displacement1. Recent Developments in International Institutions Regarding Forcible Displacement;2. The Next “First Step” in Comprehensively Addressing Forcible Displacement;3. Concluding Remark;Appendix Proposed International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Forcible Displacement; Index.

"Grant Dawson and Sonia Farber’s book calls attention to an important set of questions related to forced migration. The authors should be commended for dealing in a single book with questions as diverse as the protection of refugees and internally displaced persons, regulations on development induced displacement and resettlement and the international criminal law addressing the crime of forcible displacement."-Beno|“t Mayer, University of Singapore