Uprooted and unrestored: A comparative review of durable solutions for people displaced by conflict in Colombia and Liberia

This report does not argue against facilitating to the extent possible the ability of people to
return to their places of origin after long absences. Nor does it argue against supporting
agrarian revival and revitalizing the communities to which people do return. It does argue that
all actors have underestimated the demographic transformations that follow from the economic
and social upheavals caused by protracted conflict and, consequently, underestimate the
mobility that even the most traditional groups must adopt to survive.