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When Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were first counted in 1982, 1.2 million were found in eleven countries. By 1995, the number had soared to more than 20 million in at least 35 countries, and about 26 million at the end of 2008. In Africa, up to 12 million people were internally displaced while in Nigeria, internal displacement was already in the headlines over 30 years ago when some two million people died and several millions became internally displaced during the Biafran war. While the international community has a well established legal and institutional system of protection and assistance for refugees, none exists explicitly dealing with the issue of the internally displaced. This lacuna spurred the writer to seek to develop a minimum standard of inviolable human rights to protect IDPs in Nigeria drawing from the fundamental rights as guaranteed in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This work is ideal for academics, policy makers, diplomats, humanitarian volunteers, human rights activists, students of international humanitarian law, human rights law and political science.

This scholarly work focuses on the roles of four institutions - the UN, the CIS, the OSCE and the EU - in the process of conflict resolution in South Caucasus and analysis of their effectiveness in facilitating the achievement of final settlement. Although some scholarly works have been previously written on the subject, the originality to this work is added by virtue of the fact that it attempts to explore the effectiveness and evaluate the policies of these institutions by incorporating various assumptions of regime theory, theoretical approaches to international mediation and theoretical approaches to the study of European integration. Moreover, provided that the in scholarly literature, regime theory and its "effectiveness" concept were mostly researched and applied to international environmental regimes, and study on the effectiveness of non-environmental regimes from the perspective of the regime theory seems lagging behind (however, this is not to say that no work has been done), this work is one of the attempts to fill this gap. Regime theory constitutes the main theoretical scope of this work.