Effective strategies for dealing with internal displacement must involve a broad range of players, beginning with displaced populations themselves, their surrounding communities, the authorities under which they reside, and the local groups working with them. They must then be reinforced by capacities at national, regional, and international levels. Strategies to address mass displacement need to encompass prevention, protection, and political and economic solutions as well. They need to go beyond the mere fact of the existence of conflicts and human rights violations to their potential roots in identity crises within a nation, the denial of democratic liberties, and the deprivations of poverty and sever underdevelopment. The search for lasting solutions in turn becomes a form of prevention against recurrence.
