Return and Peacebuilding After Displacement

The return of refugees and internally displaced people after conflict is critical to ensuring durable solutions to displacement, promoting peacebuilding, and catalyzing post-war development. But return can also trigger tensions and even violence, threatening stability. This project seeks to understand the return behavior of different displaced populations, how receiving communities respond to them, and the conditions under which return enables or threatens peacebuilding in post-conflict societies. Through surveys, interviews, and analysis of return data in different conflict-affected countries, the project will generate new insights on return, reintegration, and reconciliation that are critical for scholars and policymakers alike.