Rebuilding Community after Conflict: the Return of Internally Displaced People in Aceh.

Why do some people who are displaced return to their homes of origin after conflict when others do not? More specifically, what role do security issues play in this process, and how can we understand what exactly security means in the post-war context? This paper explore these issues using new data collected between February and April 2007 during interviews of more than 1,500 households who were displaced from their homes during the civil war in Aceh, Indonesia. A framework is proposed for thinking about security issues in more detail, the applicability of this framework in post-civil war Aceh is tested. I find a weak and inconsistent relationship between personal and household characteristics and return status. The relationship between a series of micro-level security related factors is more consistent and statistically significant, while the strongest relationships appear to be between macro-level security related factors. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]