[bbcbasic]

1) the displaced people are adequately compensated for their loss

The occupier always has bigger guns, more power, and no opposition from a third party. They don't need to compensate.

2) they are given freedom to move to a place where they can enjoy human rights and make an adequate living.

Still a world full of refugees being smuggled into countries as illegal immigrant because what countries will accept them?

The only people who are moved and given (1) or (2) are ones that have a sufficiently good BATNA.

"This is going to be controversial" --- I'd say so. I almost thought it was a troll.

[kijin]

> The only people who are moved and given (1) or (2) are ones that have a sufficiently good BATNA.

Well said. So the question is: how do we build a world where residents of a small island can develop a sufficiently good BATNA, even against a nuclear superpower?

Fixing problems at the level of the basic architecture can sometimes seem to go against fixing superficial symptoms. If you're too focused on the symptoms, it might even sound heretical. Sufficiently esoteric political philosophy is often indistinguishable from trolling ;)

[bbcbasic]

I am not sure, not easy when there are powerful people who have a vested interest in exactly the opposite.

[kijin]

Of course it won't be easy.

"Easy" in politics is when you get something done, look back, and find less than ten thousand dead bodies behind you.