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Nonresident Senior Fellow

Roberta Cohen

Roberta Cohen

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

A human rights specialist, Roberta Cohen focuses on the humanitarian and human rights aspects of emergency situations. She is a senior advisor to the representative of the UN secretary-general on the human rights of internally displaced persons.



Expertise

Human rights; humanitarian and refugee issues; internal displacement

Background

Current Positions
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement; Senior Adviser to the Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons

Past Positions
2001-2007 Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; 1998-2006 co-director Brookings Project on Internal Displacement; 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 PortfolioHuman Rights: A Means of Engaging North KoreaJune 17, 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 08, 2009International Security, Armaments and Disarmament in 2008, SIPRI Yearbook 2009
Save to My PortfolioAn Institutional Gap for Disaster IDPsApril 06, 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?December 31, 2008American University International Law Review, Vol. 24, Issue 2
Save to My PortfolioListening to the Voices of the Displaced: Lessons LearnedSeptember 16, 2008The Brookings Institution
Save to My PortfolioFor Disaster IDPs: An Institutional GapAugust 08, 2008The Brookings Institution
Save to My PortfolioThe Burma Cyclone and the Responsibility to ProtectJuly 21, 2008Congressional Briefing on Security for a New Century
Save to My PortfolioDisaster Standards Needed in AsiaJune 10, 2008Brookings Northeast Asia Commentary
Save to My PortfolioHow to Feed North KoreaMay 05, 2008Washington Post
Save to My Portfolio'Hard Bargaining' Necessary with Sudan on Darfur Peacekeeping ForceFebruary 06, 2008Council on Foreign Relations
Save to My PortfolioHumanitarian Imperatives are Transforming Sovereignty January 01, 2008Northwestern Journal of International Affairs
Save to My PortfolioDarfur DebatedDecember 01, 2007Forced Migration Review
Save to My PortfolioHuman Rights and the North Korea Refugee CrisisOctober 25, 2007Fall Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Save to My PortfolioRefugee Issues Relating to ChinaOctober 19, 2007U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedoms and U.S. House of Representatives China Caucus Roundtable

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