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.
