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KHALID KOSER: There are a number of reasons why hosting a panel on the implementation of the CPA is particularly important for our project on internal displacement. The project seeks to promote the protection and human rights of internally displaced people and civilians around the world. And this panel is one of a series of panels will be held at Brookings to promote a dialogue between all the sides involved in Sudan and try to keep attention focused on achieving peace in Sudan.
First, Sudan has one of the highest numbers of IDPs in the world, at least two million, and most of them are poorly protected. Secondly, not only is implementing the CPA essential for sustaining peace in the South, it also has important implications for negotiating peace in Darfur. And third, the impasse over the CPA threatens to displace still more people, as witnessed in Abyei earlier this year.
To explain progress and obstacles to the implementation of the CPA and the wider implications, we have four speakers this afternoon. We think it’s important to allow for the expression of very different viewpoints and to create an atmosphere where, in spite of very strong feelings, we are able to accord each other the necessary space to air divergent views.
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