Return, Reconciliation, Rehabilitation, Reconstruction – The Four Rs, 1999

01/01/1999

Population displacement phenomena have changed significantly, both in nature and magnitude, over the past twenty years (Jacques, 1985, Hocke, 1986). Having long taken the form of irreversible migrations linked to the deterioration of living conditions in certain regions (migration of the Irish to the New World in the last century, etc.), population movements have regularly been the result of conflicts throughout history: crowds fleeing fighting, forced displacement under threat, enslavement. The evolution of conflicts related to the Cold War, and later those following the fall of the Wall, accelerated movements, while the practices of "relocating" entire villages outside sensitive areas (tectonic vulnerability, environmental degradation, combating deforestation, basin to be flooded as part of the construction of a dam, etc.) have increased.