The international refugee system, constructed in the aftermath of World War II, has enabled millions of refugees in every region to find safety in other countries. President Trump’s expected action...
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The international refugee system, constructed in the aftermath of World War II, has enabled millions of refugees in every region to find safety in other countries. President Trump’s expected action...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement and Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration organized an...
By: Angela Sherwood, Megan Bradley, Lorenza Rossi, Rufa Guiam and Bradley Mellicker In November 2013, the strongest storm ever recorded at landfall devastated the central Philippines. Super Typhoon...
The relationship between displacement and security would appear to be obvious: refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) are often displaced because of a lack of security, and cannot find...
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This study considers the different elements of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Disaster Management Centre (DMC)’s efforts over the last decade and assesses their impact in...
By: Elizabeth Ferris, Suleiman Mamutov, Kateryna Moroz and Olena Vynogradova Internal displacement is a new phenomenon in Ukraine. Until March 2014, the country’s experience with forced migration had...
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Editor’s Note: This paper examines the role of regional organizations in supporting disaster risk management across South Asia. As this paper went to press, a 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal, the most...
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By Elizabeth Ferris and Melanie Teff While Iraq is much in the news these days, there are important gaps in coverage by the mainstream press. Media explanations of the current crisis tend to...
By Elizabeth Ferris, Co-Director, Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Today on Earth Day, it’s important to consider the numerous ways of approaching the...
By Elizabeth Ferris, Co-Director, Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy The international humanitarian system is presently over-stretched with multiple...
The effects of a world in chaos on the people of our planet are overwhelming the international humanitarian system. As the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres recently...
As many of the world’s foreign ministers convene this week in Washington D.C. for the White House Summit to Counter Violent Extremism, displacement should be on their agenda. Concerns are being...
Editor’s Note: While attending the negotiations on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, Walter Kälin reflects on how the newly adopted framework may impact the millions of...
Displacement, whether due to conflict, natural disasters or development, not only directly and negatively affects those who are displaced, but also can have far-reaching effects on the culture and...
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Regional organizations in the Pacific play a central role in supporting the disaster risk management (DRM) activities of their nation state and territory members. While much is made of the emergent...
Colombia is a country of paradoxes; while the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) has increased from 2 million in 2004 to over 6 million in 2014 (and currently ranks second only to Syria in...
For over two decades, large numbers of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been displaced from their homes, often repeatedly, as a result of persistent conflict. The waves of...
Somalia has the seventh-largest internally displaced population in the world at 1.1 million people. It is the scene of one of the world’s longest continuous humanitarian assistance operations, dating...
In 2004, the Brookings Project on Internal Displacement and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) undertook a study that found major shortcomings in the ways in which the...
Consultation, Consent, Participation: Words Matter Central to any discussion about planned relocations is the notion that communities to be affected should be involved in the process. In legal terms,...