Mar 1

Past Event

Internal Displacement and the Marsh Arabs of Iraq

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Summary

The Brookings-Bern Project organized a panel on internal displacement and the Marsh Arabs (Iraq) at the AMAR Foundation Conference in London.

Panelists discussed the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, the requirements for sustainable returns to the Marshlands, property and compensation issues in Iraq, and the development of Iraq's National Policy on IDPs.

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Details

March 1, 2006

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST

AMAR Foundation

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Event Agenda

  • Panelists

    • Buraq J. Swaady

      Officer-in-Charge, UNHCR Iraq (Basra)

    • Dina Abou Samra

      Middle East Analyst, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre of the Norwegian Refugee Council

    • Dr. Norbert Wuehler

      Director of Claims Programmes, International Organization for Migration

    • Roberta Cohen

      Nonresident Senior Fellow

      Foreign Policy

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    • Walter Kälin

      Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of IDPs

      Co-Director, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement

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