Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Human Security in Northeast, Nigeria (2011 – 2022)
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2023-12
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Lead City University
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Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are vulnerable due to the displacement they have experienced from their natural homes and this vulnerability is increased due to various factors such as lack of access to humanitarian aids, lack of privacy and violation of their fundamental human rights which can be restricted by insecurity. This insecurity includes food, health, and personal insecurities, and lack of access to basic needs and privacy. Human security approach and structural theories are the two theories which the study is anchored upon. Primary and secondary data were gathered for the study. Interviews were conducted with some key informants on the issue of study. The study found out that the insecurity issues associated with displacement include physical insecurity of people, health insecurity, food insecurity, and environmental insecurity. Also, the IDPs have relied on several strategies such as sticking to their traditions, forming communities to provide physical and emotional support, engaged in trading, skills acquisition and participating in group activities, and negative strategies such as begging for alms, engaging in transactional sex and outright prostitutions in order to make ends meet. Based on these findings, some of the recommendations made are: government should invest in comprehensive conflict resolution mechanisms at the community, state, and national levels; improved early warning systems should also be established which can be achieved through the integration of local community networks, technology, and information sharing platforms to detect and respond to early signs of tension or violence; humanitarian assistance should be strengthened and emphasis should be made on how to enhance security measures by the government.
Keywords: Internally displaced persons, Insecurity, Humanitarianism, IDPs camps, Borno State, Nigeria.
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Internally displaced persons, Insecurity, Humanitarianism, IDPs camps, Borno State, Nigeria.
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Kate Turabian