ABSTRACT
This paper examines the role of mathematics
in internally displaced persons resettlement programmes. The issues discussed
have wider applicability for resettlement programmes not only in Nigeria but in
Africa as a whole and other part of the world. It looks at the concept of
displacement as suffering pains that reduce the worth of a displaced person,
the meaning of internally displaced persons (IDPs) as defined by United
Nations. The paper also discusses the cause of displacement in conflict context
as cross fire of disputes between insurgent groups and government forces. The
study proffers solutions among which is local integration in the host country
where they are currently living or resettling. It also suggests and recommends
among other things that rigorous education campaign should be carried out among
settlers and the neighboring communities, efforts should be made through
workshops, seminars and conferences.
INTRODUCTION
One
of the most fundamental and contentious issues that has attracted global
attention in the last decade has been the forceful displacement of people from
their ancestral homes and subsequent resettlement. Especially among scholars,
the United Nations ( UN), the government, geographers and demographers alike
due to its spread and negative consequences poverty and misery, inhuman
treatment, landlessness, destitution, debasement, and abuse of fundamental
human rights of displaced persons, etc. in other words, the population
displacement has reached an alarming proportion. For example; conflicts force
people to leave their homes indeed, one of the measures of the severity of a
conflict in addition to casualties and duration is the extent to which people
have been displaced from their communities. In a recent survey by the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of 8 conflict affected countries, 56 percent
of people affected by conflict had been displaced and in some conflicts the
percentages were far higher, nearly 80 percent in Afghanistan and nearly 90
percent in Liberia (ICRC Geneva, 2009).
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