RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ana María Ibáñez and Andrea Velásquez, December 2008, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
The intensification of the armed conflict in Colombia during the 1990s provoked the forced displacement of more than 2.4 million people, with the vast majority of municipalities either losing or receiving persons displaced by the conflict. Though Colombia has several national laws and decrees on internal displacement, implementation has been slow and uneven throughout the different state and municipal institutions. In this new report commissioned by the Brookings-Bern Project, Ana María Ibañez and Andrea Valásquez, examine the obstacles to greater involvement by municipal authorities with IDPs, focusing on four cases: Bogotá, Medellín, Antioquia, and Santa Marta. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
November 24, 2008, The Brookings Institution
With the opportunity of a new U.S. administration and Congress, Brookings’s Partnership for the Americas Commission released its final report noting the need for a new hemispheric partnership to address key transnational challenges and providing specific policy recommendations on five key areas: energy and climate change, migration, trade, organized crime and drug trafficking and U.S.-Cuban relations. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, November 24, 2008
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
On November 24, the Brookings Institution hosted the Partnership for the Americas Commission for the release of their report, “Re-thinking U.S.-Latin American Relations: A Hemispheric Partnership for a Turbulent World," which offers a set of policy recommendations to the next U.S. administration to meet the challenges facing the U.S. and Latin America, from economic and poverty policies to security, foreign policy and energy. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Elizabeth Ferris, November 11, 2008, Internal Displacement and the Construction of Peace Seminar, Bogota, Colombia
There is a close relationship between finding solutions for displaced persons and peacebuilding as peacebuilding involves: re-establishing security and law and order, reconstruction and economic rehabilitation, reconciliation and social rehabilitation, and political transition to creating more accountable governance structures and institutions. If IDP concerns in these areas are not taken seriously, it may jeopardize the sustainability of peace in the country. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mauricio Cárdenas, October 15, 2008, The Brookings Institution
In the wake of the global financial crisis, President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has expressed confidence in the Brazilian economy to withstand a slowdown. Mauricio Cardenas discusses the fundamentals of the Brazilian economy and analyzes whether Brazil is likely to maintain its economic strength. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
October 2008, The Brookings Institution
As President-Elect Obama prepares to lead the United States, what are the top global economic challenges facing the new president and his advisors and how should the new administration address them? A new report by Brookings global economic and development experts ranks the top 10 issues and details specific ideas for how to tackle the toughest challenges. Read More
BOOK
Amanda Glassman, Antonio Giuffrida, Maria-Luisa Escobar and Ursula Giedion, October 01, 2008
The authors examine changes in the financing and delivery of health care; the impact of insurance on financial protection, equity, access, and utilization of care; and the regulatory framework accompanying reform. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Roberta Cohen, September 2008, The Brookings Institution
When those working with IDPs develop programs and policies without taking the time to listen to those most affected — the IDPs themselves — plans often go wrong. In order to ensure their needs not only are met but also that lasting solutions are found for their displacement, Roberta Cohen explains that it is critical to listen to the voices of IDPs. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, March 10, 2008
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC
In many countries, internally displaced persons (IDPs) do not live in camps established by humanitarian organizations, but rather in cities where they are dispersed among the urban population. On March 10, the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement hosted a round-table seminar on urban displacment and the issues facing urban IDPs. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Paul Blustein, December 06, 2007, Marketplace, American Public Media
Many hope that a new South American development bank, Banco del Sur, will stimulate growth in poorer countries in that region. Brookings Journalist-in-Residence Paul Blustein comments on this new development. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Michael E. O'Hanlon, Diana Villiers Negroponte and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, November 2007, The Brookings Institution
In October and November of 2007, Brookings Scholars Michael O'Hanlon, Diana Negroponte and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz had an e-mail exchange with prominent Latin American scholars with a variety of perspectives to discuss the issues facing Latin America. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Paul Blustein, November 12, 2007, The Brookings Institution
The House approved a free-trade agreement with Peru last week, and Senate approval appears likely. Brookings Journalist-in-Residence Paul Blustein contends that the bipartisan vote was a breakthrough, but what’s needed is a meaningful Doha Round deal. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
12:00 PM to
Washington, DC
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PAST EVENT
Friday, September 28, 2007
8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Washington, DC
On September 28, the Brookings Institution and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars hosted a conference with prominent Brazilian and American policymakers to debate these issues. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
September 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