When violent conflict flares up, forced migration often follows. Ethnographic data shows that forced migrants remain attached to their places of origin and often express a desire to return once conflict has abated, be it after weeks, months, or years. Conversely, peacebuilders in the homeland have not effectively integrated displaced persons within their strategic programming. This is cause for concern considering the literature connecting the collapse of fragile peace to ‘refugee spoilers.’ There is a critical gap in peacebuilders’ commitment to understanding refugees’ needs and claims, and the implications these pose on peace stability following repatriation. This article argues that ethnography of refugees still living in exile can generate rich datasets useful to the development of peacebuilding programming. More than this, it proposes a methodology — ethnographic mapping — that can collect both spatial (maps) and narrative (descriptions) information in tandem and across cultural groups living in refugee camps.

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从流亡到祖国回归：民族志地图为远方的和平建设提供信息

当暴力冲突爆发时，被迫迁移往往随之而来。人种学数据显示，被迫移民仍然依附于他们的原籍地，并且往往表示希望在冲突平息后返回，无论是在数周、数月还是数年后。相反，家乡的和平建设者没有有效地将流离失所者纳入其战略规划。考虑到将脆弱和平的崩溃与“难民破坏者”联系起来的文献，这令人担忧。和平建设者对了解难民需求和要求的承诺以及这些对遣返后和平稳定的影响存在重大差距。本文认为，仍然生活在流亡中的难民的民族志可以生成对建设和平计划的发展有用的丰富数据集。更有什者，