The Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement: “According to best estimates, by early 2014, there were over 30 million people who had been internally displaced by conflict and human rights violations. This was the highest number ever recorded and over 25 times the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) counted in 1982. Some of this increase is undoubtedly the result of better and more comprehensive means of estimating the number of IDPs, but it also reflects the increasingly protracted nature of displacement, as well as the increasing use of displacement as a strategy in civil conflicts.”