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标题：From Exile to Homeland Return: Ethnographic Mapping to Inform Peacebuilding from Afar
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作者：Nicolas Parent
期刊名称：Stability: International Journal of Security and Development
印刷版ISSN：2165-2627
出版年度：2020
卷号：9
期号：1
DOI：10.5334/sta.772
语种：English
出版社：Ubiquity Press
摘要：When violent conflict flares up, forced migration often follows. Ethnographic data shows that forced migrants remain attached to their places of origin and often express a desire to return once conflict has abated, be it after weeks, months, or years. Conversely, peacebuilders in the homeland have not effectively integrated displaced persons within their strategic programming. This is cause for concern considering the literature connecting the collapse of fragile peace to ‘refugee spoilers.’ There is a critical gap in peacebuilders’ commitment to understanding refugees’ needs and claims, and the implications these pose on peace stability following repatriation. This article argues that ethnography of refugees still living in exile can generate rich datasets useful to the development of peacebuilding programming. More than this, it proposes a methodology — ethnographic mapping — that can collect both spatial (maps) and narrative (descriptions) information in tandem and across cultural groups living in refugee camps.