Open AccessAddressing Relief and Repatriation Needs in Nongovernment-Held Areas: Implications for Policies and Programs
Author(s) -
Gayle E. Smith
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
refuge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1920-7336
pISSN - 0229-5113
DOI - 10.25071/1920-7336.21703
Subject(s) - repatriation , opposition (politics) , agency (philosophy) , government (linguistics) , public administration , rural area , political science , front (military) , economic growth , geography , sociology , politics , law , social science , economics , philosophy , meteorology , linguistics
This paper will examine the existing constraintsto addressing relief and repatriationneeds in nongovernment-held areasand point to areas of possible change.Nongovernment-held areas are held by aforce other than a central governmentarmy. In the case of Tigray, these areaswere not only inaccessible to the army ofthe former central government of Ethiopia(GOE), but were also administeredby an opposition force, theTigrayan People'sLiberation Front (TPLF). Relative toother national liberation movements, theTPLF's administrative system was quitedeveloped; in addition, the movementcontrolled a wide area encompassingmost of rural Tigray and, by 1988, thewhole of the region. Effective access wasmaintained from neighbouring Sudan,and the Relief Society of Tigray (REST)operated as an effective disaster managementagency.