Editorial

Today there are many , Bosnias, Burundis, Afghanistans, Cambodias, Croatias, Democratic Republics of Congo, Rwandas, Somalias, Sudans, and Ugandas, where tens of millions of people are violently displaced.The uprooted, including the societies, are emotionally and culturally traumatized and decimated, physically devastated and economically impoverished and marginalized.More often thannot, the faces and plights of the uprooted do not capture the attention of the media.The causes of violent displacement are complex and related: wars, violence, violations of the right to socioeconomic development, violations of other fundamental human rights, chronic deficit of legitimacy, hotly contested concepts of society, and the quest for hegemony.The roots of the crises are located in past and present history of the societies, and the interplay of domestic, regional and international factors.Afghanistan, for example, has experienced a ravaging war for nearly two decades.The protracted war has Editorial Ogenga Otunnu ct over a million lives, perma-Iran.Some a ~f those who repatriated nently disabled some 300,000 Afghans, under conflict, especially between 1992 generated over a million internally dis-and 1998, have fled again, mostly placed people and some 6 million refu-within the turbulent c o ~n t r y .~ The gees.'The overwhelming majority of the physical, psychological and psychosorefugees sought asylum in Pakistan and cia1 consequences of the war, uncer-..................

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