Adebo, Tarekegn(PhD)Ayalew, Tizazu2018-06-282023-11-042018-06-282023-11-042014-05http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/4728This study examines the existing international normative and institutional responses for the protection of conflict induced internally displaced persons (CIDPs) in the particular countries of Sudan’s Darfur and Somalia. In meeting its objective, the thesis, with a very limited primary data obtained through in-depth interview, primarily depends on secondary data source focusing on extensive document analysis by using different publications such as books, articles, documents, reports, policy papers, proceedings and briefings and so on. Qualitative interpretation was entirely employed as a methodology of analysis. The study suggests that Sudan’s Darfur and Somalia are at the forefront in hosting massive IDPs with a severe humanitarian crisis, resulted by their prolonged internal armed conflicts. Informed by theincreasing crisis of IDPs in those countries as well as IDPs worldwide, the international community is significantly continued in responding for protection and assistance to IDPs ranged from the introduction of normative framework, to the existing a collaborative kind of institutional arrangements. Legal frameworks, such as the Guiding Principles and the Kampala Convention are came to the ground for the specific purpose of protecting and assisting IDPs. Moreover, under the Cluster Approach, the UN agencies and non-UN international intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations are currently involved in the protection of IDPs in Darfur and Somalia. As the study examines the issue, focusing on the particular countries of Sudan’s Darfur and Somalia’s CIDPs, although the existing international legal and institutional as well as humanitarian and political response for protection and assistance to IDPs is significantly in a growing concern, the system is yet in ad hoc and fledgling nature of humanitarian support, with weak and unpredictable institutional arrangementenInternational RelationThesis