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Nonresident Senior Fellow

Roberta Cohen

Roberta Cohen

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement

A human rights specialist, Roberta Cohen focuses on the humanitarian and human rights aspects of emergency situations.



Expertise

Human rights; humanitarian and refugee issues; internal displacement

Background

Past Positions
2001-2007 Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; 1996-2006 co-director Brookings Project on Internal Displacement; 1994-2010, Senior Adviser to the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons; 2003 Public Member, U.S. Delegation to Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; 1998 Public Member, U.S. Delegation to U.N. Commission on Human Rights; Senior Adviser to National Academy of Sciences and Refugee Policy Group; Consultant to UNHCR, World Bank; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Senior Adviser to Delegation to U.N., U.S. Department of State; Honorary Secretary, Parliamentary Human Rights Group (London); Executive Director, International League for Human Rights (New York)

Education

Ph.D. (honorary) University of Bern, 2006; M.A., School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1963; B.A., Barnard College, 1960


Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioWomen Responding to WarNovember 22, 2011Brookings Up Front Blog
Save to My PortfolioHunger in North Korea: Time for a DecisionJuly 15, 201138 North, U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS
Save to My PortfolioProtracted Refugee Situations: An Iraq Case StudyApril 20, 2011American University's Washington College of Law
Save to My PortfolioKim Jong Il and the Hunger ProblemMarch 16, 2011The National Interest
Save to My PortfolioOn Libya, Our Policy Became a HostageMarch 02, 2011The Washington Post
Save to My PortfolioLooking to the Future in SudanJanuary 14, 2011The New York Times
Save to My PortfolioAround the Halls: Remembering Richard HolbrookeDecember 14, 2010Brookings Up Front Blog
Save to My PortfolioDisasters and Displacement: Gaps in ProtectionNovember 16, 2010International Humanitarian Legal Studies 1 (2010) 95-142
Save to My PortfolioLegal Grounds for Protection of North Korean RefugeesFall 2010Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, Seoul
Save to My PortfolioHuman Rights: A Means of Engaging North KoreaJune 201038 North, U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS
Save to My PortfolioReconciling Responsibility to Protect with IDP ProtectionMarch 25, 2010Global Responsibility to Protect
Save to My PortfolioPressing Pyongyang on RightsJuly 31, 2009The Washington Post
Save to My PortfolioRaising Human Rights with North KoreaJuly 23, 2009Council on Foreign Relations
Save to My PortfolioMass Displacement Caused by Conflicts and One-Sided ViolenceJune 2009International Security, Armaments and Disarmament in 2008, SIPRI Yearbook 2009
Save to My PortfolioAn Institutional Gap for Disaster IDPsApril 2009Forced Migration Review #32
Save to My PortfolioThe Responsibility to Protect: Human Rights and Humanitarian DimensionsFebruary 20, 2009Panel on the Responsibility to Protect and Human Rights, Harvard Human Rights Journal Annual Symposium
Save to My PortfolioDisputed Territories in IraqJanuary 04, 2009Kurdistani Nwe
Save to My PortfolioIraq's Displaced: Where to Turn?Fall 2008American University International Law Review, Vol. 24, Issue 2
Save to My PortfolioListening to the Voices of the Displaced: Lessons LearnedSeptember 2008The Brookings Institution
Save to My PortfolioFor Disaster IDPs: An Institutional GapAugust 08, 2008The Brookings Institution

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Contact Information

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