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Save to My PortfolioThe Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons

Walter Kälin, October 26, 2009, United Nations General Assembly

The Human Rights of Internally Displaced PersonsSince 2004 there have been encouraging trends related to internal displacement. Walter Kälin notes that the use of the Guiding Principles as the relevant framework for protecting IDPs and the development of national and regional laws and policies on internal displacement have been positive trends. However, despite such positive trends, the challenges presented by climate change, the disregard for civilian populations in conflict zones, a shrinking humanitarian space, and protracted displacement situations still remain unchanged. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioPeace, Reconciliation, and Displacement

Elizabeth Ferris, July 07, 2009, UCLA Conference on Peace and Reconciliation: Embracing the Displaced

Peace, Reconciliation, and DisplacementDisplacement is one of the tragic consequences of conflict. Elizabeth Ferris argues that once a conflict ends, resolving displacement and preventing future displacement is inextricably linked with achieving a lasting peace. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioRefugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Serbia

Walter Kälin, June 30, 2009, Parliament of Serbia

Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in SerbiaIt is positive, and a clear step forward, that Serbian authorities like the Serbian Commissioner for Refguees have started programs to help IDPs leave collective centers, move to their own houses, and regain their livelihoods. Yet, as Walter Kälin points out in an address to the Parliament of Serbia, bureaucratic obstacles continue to make it unnecessarily difficult for many IDPs to access public services. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioProtracted Displacement in Europe

Walter Kälin, June 24, 2009, Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Debate on Protracted Displacement in Europe

Protracted Displacement in EuropeOver the last few years, the internal displacement situation in Europe has remained stagnant. Europe continues to have more than 2.5 million IDPs, over 99% of whom find themselves in situations of protracted displacement. In order to improve the situation of IDPs in Europe, Walter Kälin argues that both the adoption of the Draft Resolution before the Parliamentary Assembly as well as a national laws and policies "would radically change the fate of these forgotten people." Read More

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Save to My PortfolioMass Displacement Caused by Conflicts and One-Sided Violence

Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng, June 08, 2009, International Security, Armaments and Disarmament in 2008, SIPRI Yearbook 2009

Mass Displacement Caused by Conflicts and One-Sided ViolenceMassive displacement of people within and across borders has become a defining feature of the post-cold war world. It is also a major feature of human insecurity in which genocide, terrorism, egregious human rights violations and appalling human degradation wreak havoc on civilians. Though there has been a critical shift in thinking at the international level with regards to forced displacement, Cohen and Deng argue that concepts of sovereignty as responsibility and the responsibility to protect remain far ahead of international willingness and capacity to enforce them. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioGuiding Principle 29 and the Right to Restitution

Rhodri C. Williams, December 31, 2008, Forced Migration Review

The emergence of the right to post-displacement property restitution represents a significant development in human rights law in the ten years since the Guiding Principles were submitted. While Guiding Principle 29 has contributed to the development of this right, significant obstacles remain to its consistent application in displacement settings. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioThe Future of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

Walter Kälin, December 31, 2008, Forced Migration Review

The Future of the Guiding Principles on Internal DisplacementIn this article, Walter Kälin explains that while it is hard to take an objective view on an enterprise in which you have been closely involved, he thinks that it is fair to say that over the last ten years the Guiding Principles have demonstrated their utility and impact but also their limitations. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioFrontiers of Europe

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Kyiv, Ukraine

On December 16-17, 2008, the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe, Yalta European Strategy and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation hosted a high-level conference in Kyiv, Ukraine as part of the “Frontiers of Europe” project. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioProtracted Displacement in Europe: Perspectives and Solutions

Walter Kälin, November 26, 2008, Council of Europe, Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population

While Africa could be considered the continent of internal displacement because it has more than 12 of the roughly 25 million displaced by armed conflict worldwide, Europe, with its estimated 2.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), could be called the continent of protracted displacement, since 99% of Europe's remaining displaced fled their homes some 15-25 years ago. In recent years, some governments have taken important steps to improve their situation, but overall the situation of most IDPs remains a cause for concern. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioRussia's Ominous New Doctrine?

Strobe Talbott, August 15, 2008, The Washington Post

Russia's Ominous New Doctrine?Strobe Talbott asks whether Russian policy has changed with regard to the permanence of borders. Because of its "rampage" through Georgia, the next U.S. administration will have to reexamine the underlying basis for the whole idea of partnership with Russia and its continuing integration into a rule-based international community.
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Save to My PortfolioWarning Light on Kosovo

Peter W. Rodman, John Bolton and Lawrence Eagleburger, January 31, 2008, The Washington Times

Over Serbia's strong opposition, the U.S. and other western nations recognized Kosovo's February 17, 2008 declaration of independence. Prior to that action, Peter Rodman, John Bolton and Lawrence Eagleburger had argued that this could provoke Serbia and be viewed as a direct challenge to the Russian Federation. The authors also called a re-examination of U.S. policy toward the region. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioThe Balkans: A New Crisis?

Thursday, November 29, 2007
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Washington, DC

On November 29, the Brookings Institution welcomed David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom. Mr. Cameron discussed recent developments in the Balkans and the looming challenges to stability in the region. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioEuropean Mediators and Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Steven Pifer, November 01, 2007, Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 54, no. 6

Steven Pifer retraces the events of November-December 2004, analyzes the role of the European mediators, and offers steps the European Union can take to ensure that it can rener equally effective assistance in future political crises.  Read More

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Save to My PortfolioA Faithful Case for Intervention: Our Common Responsibility to Protect Humanity and Prevent Atrocities

Elizabeth Ferris, September 30, 2007, Pursuing the Common Good: Principle and Practice in U.S. Foreign Policy (Center for American Progress, 2007)

Article by Elizabeth Ferris on the responsibility to protect (September 2007) Read More

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Save to My PortfolioWhen Displacement Ends: A Framework for Durable Solutions

September 01, 2007, The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement

There are at least 24 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the world today. They do not have a special legal status that ends at a particular time and, as citizens of the countries where they are displaced, they have every right not to go home even once it is safe to do so. A Framework for Durable Solutions helps to define the situations when it can be said that displacement has ended and those formerly displaced no longer require the specific attention given to them as IDPs. Read More

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The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement monitors displacement problems worldwide, works with governments, regional bodies, international organizations and civil society to create more effective policies and institutional arrangements for Internally Displaed Persons.

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