The global refugee crisis: Moral dimensions and practical solutions
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The global refugee crisis: Moral dimensions and practical solutions
The global refugee crisis: Moral dimensions and practical solutions

The global refugee crisis: Moral dimensions

The global refugee crisis: Practical solutions
On February 5, the Foreign Policy program at Brookings hosted the American Academy in Berlin for the 2016 Richard C. Holbrooke Forum for a two-part public event focusing on the global refugee crisis. Brookings Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy Leon Wieseltier delivered featured remarks on the moral dimensions of the refugee crisis. Wieseltier is currently completing an essay on certain moral, historical, and philosophical dimensions of the refugee crisis. Michael Ignatieff, Edward R. Murrow professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy School, moderated a question and answer session following Wieseltier’s remarks.
The second panel featured experts addressing the first-step policies needed to ameliorate the crisis. Bruce Katz, Brookings centennial scholar, Tamara Wittes, director of Brookings’s Center for Middle East Policy, Elizabeth Ferris, research professor at Georgetown University and Brookings nonresident senior fellow, spoke to the multiple aspects of the refugee crisis. Brookings Executive Vice President Martin Indyk moderated the panel discussion.
Bruce Jones, vice president and director for the Foreign Policy program, provided introductory remarks.
Agenda
Introductory remarks
Panel I: Moral dimensions
Leon Wieseltier
Former Brookings Expert
Panel II: Practical solutions
Martin S. Indyk
Former Brookings Expert
Distinguished Fellow and Director of Executive Education - The Council on Foreign Relations
Elizabeth Ferris
Former Brookings Expert
Research Professor, Institute of Study of International Migration - Georgetown University
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