Georgian Experience of Work with Internally Displaced Persons (Historiographical Review)

Author

Kalach Olena

a Ph.D. in History, a junior research fellow at the Ukrainian Ethnological Centre Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6304-5076

Georgian Experience of Work with Internally Displaced Persons (Historiographical Review)

Abstract

The problem of migration, especially forced internal displacement, is becoming extremely urgent nowadays. As of the end of 2024, 123.2 million forcibly displaced people are recorded in the world, 73.5 million among them are internally displaced and 49.7 million are refugees [6]. According to the UN Refugee Agency, wars, conflicts, persecution and human rights violations are the main reasons for migration [6].

Accordingly, the issue of international and legal regulation of the problems of internally displaced persons (hereinafter – IDPs) is one of the priority current tasks. Countries are experiencing tragedies of a national scale, the consequences of which will have to be eliminated for several decades. And success can be achieved only by joining forces and taking into account previous mistakes and adapting legislative approaches of various countries to the problems of their own citizens.

The submitted article is an attempt to analyze and summarize the thirty-three-year experience of Georgia as a state that is the first among European countries in the recent world history to encounter the actions of an aggressor and the latest methods and technologies of warfare. The approaches of the country’s leadership to ensuring the needs of IDPs in the conditions of a long-term frozen conflict (housing, educational, social, medical, etc.) are considered.

The relevance of the work is caused by the necessity to generalize immediately (based on the developed legislative framework, Ukrainian and foreign research) the experience of meeting the needs of IDPs in Georgia, as well as analyze the causes of mistakes made in their integration in order to avoid negative experience in Ukraine under current emergency conditions.

The importance of active interaction between state authorities, international and public organizations, volunteer communities, and IDPs themselves is emphasized. The fact makes it possible to identify urgent problems quickly and solve them successfully.

Keywords

Internally Displaced Persons, Georgia, conflict, Action Plan, dwelling, integration, interaction, world-view, identity.

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