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I. INTRODUCTION

1.1. Key actors

1.2. Studying return movements

II. LEGAL PROVISIONS, PRINCIPLES, GUIDELINES AND AGREEMENTS

2.1. Key principles and provisions in international law

2.2. Return-related provisions in peace agreements

2.3. Tripartite agreements

III. MANAGING RETURN

3.1. UNHCR’s ‘4Rs’ approach (repatriation, reintegration, rehabilitation, reconstruction)

3.2. Dissemination of information, logistics and monitoring

3.3. Institutional arrangements for the cooperative management of return

3.4. Participation of displaced persons in planning and managing return

3.5. Addressing the vulnerabilities of women, children, elderly and disabled returnees

3.6. Return of failed asylum seekers

IV. SECURITY CHALLENGES

4.1. Return and peace processes

4.2. Demobilisation of combatants

4.3. Landmines and UXOs

V. JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION

5.1. Legal security for returnees

5.2. Reparations

5.3. Reconciliation and coexistence

VI. SUSTAINABLE RETURN: REINTEGRATION, RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

6.1. Reconstruction and the relief-development gap

6.2. Psychosocial aspects of return and reintegration

VII. OTHER RESOURCES

Index of Research Guides