Preventive Action for Refugee Producing Situations

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responsibilities as chairman of the 1987/88 Fellows while writing the dissertation,
as well as to my fellow Fellows for our enlightening debates; to
UNHCR, for granting me the necessary leave; and, last but not least, to
the University of Hannover, for awarding me the "Graduierten Förderung,"
a doctoral grant.
For any errors in fact or judgment, I alone am, of course,
responsible.
Luise Drüke
CONTENTS
Part I
"Initiatives and Actions: A Historical Perspective"
1. Introduction
1.1. Political Context 21
1.2. General Outline 28
1.3. Research Design 41
2: Empirical Examination: Actions with Potentials to
Prevent Refugee-Producing Situations 43
2.1. Past Initiatives 43
2.1.1. UN Group to Avert Refugee Flows 46
2.1.2. Human Rights and Mass Exoduses 49
2.1.3. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 52
2.2. Current Projects 54
2.2.1. Refugee Policy Group 55
2.2.2. Research and Collection of Information 61
2.2.3. Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues 66
3: Analytical Discussion: Analysis of Refugee
Causes and Selected Examples 71
3.1. Factors Producing Refugee Flows 71
3.1.1. Social Change and Refugees 71
3.1.1.1. Flight, Tolerable Price to Death? 73
3.1.1.2. Make Flight a Viable Option 74
3.1.1.3. Refugees - Political 'Pawns'? 76
3.1.2. Selected Examples 77
3.1.2.1. The ODP, the 1979 and 1989 Meeting and the CPA 78
3.1.2.2. Nicaraguan Refugees in Honduras and CIREFCA 107
3.1.2.3. Uprooting People in the Vietnam War 126