Preparing for self-preservation

Abstract

All too often, violence proves to be beyond influence, forcing international aid agencies to pull back and leave local civilians to face the danger alone. External actors need a far deeper understanding of local communities’ experience of and strategies for self-protection, and a far greater commitment to support those communities.

Keywords

• refugee
• IDP
• stateless
• internal displacement
• forced migration
• migration
• local communities
• protection
• community
• community-based protection