Dangerous sanctuaries : refugee camps, civil war, and the dilemmas of humanitarian aid / Sarah Kenyon Lischer.

Since the early 1990s, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Africa have led to the international spread of civil war. In Central Africa alone, more than three million people have died in wars fueled, at least in part, by internationally supported refugee populatio...

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Main Author: Lischer, Sarah Kenyon, 1970- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2005]
Series:Cornell studies in security affairs.
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505 0 |a Refugee crises as catalysts of conflict -- Political incentives for the spread of civil war -- Afghan refugees : catalysts of conflict for three decades -- From refugees to regional war in central Africa -- Demilitarizing a refugee army : Bosnian Muslim renegade refugees -- Collateral damage : the risks of humanitarian responses to militarized refugee crises. 
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