DOCSLIB.ORG

R2P: the Next Decade

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
R2P: the Next Decade NUMBER 74 | Spring 2012 PROVOKING THOUGHT AND ENCOURAGING DIALOGUE ABOUT THE WORLD R2P: The Next Decade Marking 10 Years of R2P Notable Change in the Debate With Success, New Complications INSIDE The Future of Atrocity Prevention Marking Ten Years of the R2P10 Responsibility to Protect Policymakers, experts gather to assess the evolving principle of human protection arlier this year, the Stanley Foundation, UN advisors to the secretary-general in this along with the MacArthur Foundation and field, on our advisory council. Ethe Carnegie Corporation of New York, organized an event titled “Responsibility to Our January 2012 conference may very well Protect: The Next Decade.” The daylong confer- have marked a turning point in global under- ence was intended to mark the tenth anniversary standing of the R2P doctrine. While there is still of the “Responsibility to Protect” concept and vigorous debate about “how” best to prevent “In 2011 history chart a path toward more effectively halting and and halt mass atrocities, a cross section of inter- preventing genocide and mass atrocities around national participants in our event underscored took a turn for the world. The event featured an all-star lineup widespread agreement that the task is an appro- the better. The of panelists and participants including United priate and necessary part of fostering a global Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon along Responsibility to with many original members of the International Committee on Intervention and State Sovereignty Protect came of (ICISS) that launched the “Responsibility to age; the principle Protect” report in December 2001. was tested as never That 2001 report spelled out a global frame- before. The results work for stopping and preventing some of the most devastating man-made atrocities in the were uneven but, world. The idea, often shortened to R2P, involves (1) the responsibility of countries to C at the end of protect their populations from genocide, war the day, tens of crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity—and from their incitement; (2) the thousands of lives commitment of the international community to were saved.” assist countries in meeting these obligations; and (3) the responsibility of the world to respond in —excerpt from UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon’s a timely and decisive manner when a country is community. Once, vocal groups of nations could keynote at “R2P: The manifestly failing to provide such protection. claim that most domestic cases of mass violence Next Decade” R2P was unanimously approved at the 2005 were internal matters unsuited for discussion at World Summit organized by the United Nations the international level, including the UN and has since been an important factor in crisis Security Council. Today, that idea no longer debate and action around the world. holds sway. The Stanley Foundation has long been active in In this edition of Courier, former ICISS Cochair helping the world promote and live up to the Gareth Evans gives us a quick overview of how Cover Photo. Recent R2P ideals of R2P. We have organized many confer- R2P has developed over the last ten years. He debate has centered around ences and dialogues on the topic, commis- says, “The principle is firmly established and events in Syria. Here, Syrians sioned original writing and analysis, and pro- has delivered major practical results. But its and others protest in front of duced a widely distributed event-in-a-box completely effective implementation is going to the Syrian Consulate in toolkit titled Before the Killing Begins: The be a work in progress for some time yet.” December 2011 in Istanbul, Politics of Mass Violence. In addition, the Turkey. (Photo by Sadik foundation has been honored by the presence Around the world today, from Syria to Libya Güleç/iStockphoto) of Francis Deng and Ed Luck, two prominent and Côte d’Ivoire, the idea of R2P animates the 2 Courier 74 LThe Road Ahead. Ivorian refugees head down a road after fleeing from mass atrocity violence in western Côte d’Ivoire, March 2011. (Photo by Juliette Robert) Courier rationale for military intervention. As Gerber points L Held Accountable. In December 2011 former Côte d’Ivoire out, “Setting the sights of global policy to prevent President Laurent Gbagbo (center), accused of crimes against human- rather than simply respond to mass atrocity threats ity, appeared at the International Criminal Court. The year also saw raises deeper questions about the internal dynamics the arrests of two remaining fugitives from the Balkans conflict in the that drive atrocity violence.” Answering these ques- 1990s, including Bosnian Serb Ratko Mladic, who will stand trial in a UN backed war crimes tribunal for genocide and inflicting terror on tions and responding to those dark motives will be civilians. (Photo by Peter Dejong/UNDPI/ICC/AP Pool) vital for R2P’s future. —Keith Porter Director of Policy and Outreach, The Stanley Foundation debate about global responses. Foundation program offi- cer Sean Harder reports on how policymakers and Resource. experts at the New York conference considered these More details on the R2P10 event, including full video present day applications—from Gareth Evans who and a post-conference policy memo, can be found on expressed concern that R2P may be undergoing a bit of page 10 or at www.r2p10.org. a “midlife crisis” to Knut Vollebaek who wondered what happens when the “international community…fails No. 74 Spring 2012 | ISSN 1044-5900 to take up this responsibility?” Vlad Sambaiew Courier is published quarterly by the Stanley PRESIDENT Foundation and mailed without charge to interested readers within the United States. The views expressed Keith Porter Finally, in this issue of Courier, foundation program here are not necessarily those of the foundation. EDITOR Sean Harder officer Rachel Gerber looks beyond the horizon at the ©2012 by The Stanley Foundation DEPUTY EDITOR To receive future issues, contact: challenges R2P will face in its second decade of exis- The Stanley Foundation Donna Vandygriff tence. She reminds us that at the 2005 World Summit, 209 Iowa Avenue :: Muscatine, IA 52761 USA COPYEDITOR 563·264·1500 :: 563·264·0864 fax Amy Bakke leaders “reinforced R2P’s focus on peaceful, preventive [email protected] CREATIVE DIRECTOR means” rather than pigeonholing R2P as merely a www.stanleyfoundation.org Spring 2012 3 Haunting Past. The 1995 mass atrocity killing of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica by Bosnian Serbs is one of the historic precursors to development of the Responsibility to Protect. About 20,000 Bosnian Muslims fled the immediate aftermath of the killing. (REUTERS/Stringer) The Responsibility to Protect R2P10 In Action The debate today is about how, not whether, to protect civilians or all the setbacks and frustrations in responding came to effective collective response to these catastro- to mass atrocity crimes, the world has come a long phes, the international community was impotent. Fway in the last ten years. To understand just how far, we need to remind ourselves where we were at the The basic problem was political. Policymaking in the end of the 1990s—the decade of Rwanda, Bosnia, and 1990s was a consensus-free zone. In bitter and divisive Kosovo in which it became tragically clear that the debates in the UN General Assembly and elsewhere, a catastrophes of the Holocaust of the 1940s and fundamental conceptual gulf opened between those, Cambodia in the 1970s were not unrepeatable aberra- largely in the Global North, who rallied to the banner tions. For all the great advances in international human of “humanitarian intervention” or “the right to inter- rights and humanitarian law made after World War II— vene,” and those, largely in the Global South, who— above all, the UN Convention on Genocide—states proud of their newly won independence, often con- repeatedly ignored their legal obligations. And when it scious of their fragility, and remembering all too well 4 Courier 74 the “civilizing missions” of the former imperial pow- more clarity and consensus has emerged as successive ers—argued that state sovereignty was absolute and cases have been debated—from Iraq to Darfur, Sri Lanka, internal events, however conscience-shocking, were Georgia, Myanmar, Kenya, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Libya, none of the business of the rest of the world. and now Syria. It is generally agreed that they don’t involve natural disasters, human rights violations general- A Winning Argument ly, or broad “human security” problems, but large-scale It was to find a way out of this political impasse that mass atrocity crimes (genocide, ethnic cleansing, war the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was born in the crimes, and crimes against humanity) that are being com- 2001 report of that name by the Canadian-sponsored mitted, or feared likely, here and now. international commission I cochaired. Its groundbreak- ing contribution was to lay the foundation for a new Third, there has been much progress made in develop- consensus that both the North and South could accept. ing the institutional capacity—diplomatic, legal, civil, Two moves were particularly crucial. The first was to and military—in national governments and internation- use much less confrontational language—insisting that al organizations, to anticipate and respond effectively we talk not about “right” but “responsibility,” not to R2P challenges. about “intervention” but “protection,” and focus not on the entitlement of big states to throw their weight Fourth, the Security Council decision in March 2011 to around as they saw fit, but the responsibility of every authorize the use of military force in Libya, saw the state to protect the victims of mass atrocity crimes. invocation and implementation of R2P at the sharpest end of all—when prevention had manifestly failed and The other crucial step was to make clear that R2P was a massacre was manifestly imminent.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Human Security for All Cahill.Qxp 10/1/2004 1:36 PM Page Ii
    cahill.qxp 10/1/2004 1:36 PM Page i Human Security for All cahill.qxp 10/1/2004 1:36 PM Page ii INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS SERIES Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., series editor 1. Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., ed., Basics of International Humanitarian Missions. 2. Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., ed., Emergency Relief Operations. 3. Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., ed., Traditions, Values, and Humanitarian Action. 4. Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., ed., Technology for Humanitarian Action. cahill.qxp 10/1/2004 1:36 PM Page iii Human Security for All A Tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello Edited by KEVIN M. CAHILL, M.D. A Joint Publication of FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS and THE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AND COOPERATION New York • 2004 cahill.qxp 10/1/2004 1:36 PM Page iv Copyright © 2004 The Center for International Health and Cooperation All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. International Humanitarian Affairs Series, No. 5 ISSN 1541-7409 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Human security for all : a tribute to Sergio Viera de Mello / edited by Kevin M. Cahill.-- 1st ed. p. cm. -- (International humanitarian affairs series, ISSN 1541-7409 ; no.5) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8232-2398-1 (hardcover) -- ISBN 0-8232-2399-X (pbk.) 1. Humanitarian assistance. 2. War relief. 3.
    [Show full text]
  • Military Humanitarianism: Syria Hasn’T Killed It
    Thomas G. Weiss Military Humanitarianism: Syria Hasn’t Killed It Pundits claim that the war in Syria has sounded the death knell for humanitarian intervention and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)—resquiescat in pace, according to David Rieff.1 By failing to intercede in that country’s brutal civil war, many believe the international community effectively turned its back on an important emerging international norm, one that over 150 heads of state endorsed at the UN’s 2005 World Summit.2 But is this really the case? In December 2013, for example, the UN Security Council (UNSC) authorized military action to counter the Central African Republic’s (CAR) genocidal chaos. Subsequently France, the ex-colonial power, joined forces with the post-colonial African Union (AU) to deploy troops to protect civilians. The UNSC also imposed an arms embargo on the country and warned the UN of the need for a possible peacekeeping mission. In another example, the UNSC in April 2013 approved action in Mali, led by France and the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), to counter Islamist extremists. Of course, the most famous R2P example is when the UNSC approved the March 2011 international air war against Libya, led by Paris and London with Washington “leading from behind.” This was the first-ever such authorization against a functioning de jure government, and the first such use of substantial humanitarian military muscle since the contested 1999 NATO operation in Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center as well as Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, and research professor at SOAS in the University of London.
    [Show full text]
  • The Paradox of ‘The Responsibility to Protect’
    Unravelling the Paradox of ‘The Responsibility to Protect’ Draft paper prepared for Royal Irish Academy Committee for International Affairs annual high-level conference entitled ‘A Responsibility to Protect?’: Sovereignty vs. Intervention, Academy House, Dublin, 21 November 2008. Do not cite without author’s permission David Chandler, University of Westminster [email protected] Introduction One of the most striking aspects of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine appears to be the gap between the promise and the reality. In 2001 when the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) published its report ‘The Responsibility to Protect’, there was little doubt that, as stated in the ‘Foreword’ the concept of R2P was ‘about the so-called “right of humanitarian intervention” – the question of when, if ever, it is appropriate for states to take coercive – and in particular military – action, against another state for the purpose of protecting people at risk in that other state’ (ICISS 2001: vii). The ICISS was tasked with trying to develop a global political consensus on the question of humanitarian intervention, which it believed it had achieved through reformulating the problem in terms of the ‘responsibility to protect’. Today, the relationship between the R2P and the right of humanitarian intervention appears to be much less clear. This shift in the meaning of R2P will be the subject of this article and is at the heart of the paradox of R2P: the fact that it appears that R2P’s universal acceptance has come at a cost to both its meaning and application. For the advocates of R2P, its endorsement at the UN General Assembly 2005 World Summit is taken as a fundamental turning point.
    [Show full text]
  • Tea and Sympathy: the United States and the Sudan Civil War, 1985-2005
    East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Student Works 12-2008 Tea and Sympathy: The nitU ed States and the Sudan Civil War, 1985-2005. Peter William Klein East Tennessee State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd Part of the African History Commons, and the Social Influence and Political Communication Commons Recommended Citation Klein, Peter William, "Tea and Sympathy: The nitU ed States and the Sudan Civil War, 1985-2005." (2008). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2007 This Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. “Tea and Sympathy”: The United States and the Sudan Civil War, 1985-2005 ____________________________ A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of History East Tennessee State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Masters of Arts in History _______________________________ by Peter W. Klein December 2008 _______________________________ Dr. Melvin Page, Chair Dr. Stephen Fritz Dr. Henry Antkiewicz Keywords: The Sudan, Civil War, U.S. Congress, U.S. Media ABSTRACT “Tea and Sympathy”: The United States and the Sudan Civil War, 1985-2005 Peter W. Klein The specters of violence and economic insecurity have haunted the Sudan since its independence in 1956. The United States Congress has held numerous hearings on the Sudan's civil war and U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Gesprek Datum: Dinsdag 13 Maart 2012 Tijd: 16.00 - 17.00 Uur Openbaar/Besloten: Besloten
    Den Haag, 7 maart 2012 Voortouwcommissie: vaste commissie voor Buitenlandse Zaken Activiteit: Gesprek Datum: dinsdag 13 maart 2012 Tijd: 16.00 - 17.00 uur Openbaar/besloten: besloten Onderwerp: Francis Deng, speciaal adviseur genocidepreventie van de VN Agendapunt: Gesprek met Francis Deng, speciaal adviseur genocidepreventie van de VN Noot: Zie bijgevoegd c.v. Griffier: T.J.E. van Toor Activiteitnummer: 2012A00875 Secretary-General SG/A/1070 BIO/3877 Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York Biographical Note SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS FRANCIS DENG OF SUDAN AS SPECIAL ADVISER FOR PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Francis Deng of the Sudan as the new Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide, succeeding Juan Méndez. Mr. Deng is currently Director of the Sudan Peace Support Project based at the United States Institute of Peace. He is also a Wilhelm Fellow at the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a research professor of international politics, law and society at Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Before joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Deng was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the John Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. Mr. Deng served as Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons from 1992 to 2004, and from 2002 to 2003 was also a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. Mr. Deng served as Human Rights Officer in the United Nations Secretariat from 1967 to 1972 and as the Ambassador of the Sudan to Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the United States.
    [Show full text]
  • Ban Ki-Moon the DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD LECTURE 2016 the DAG
    Evolving Threats, Timeless Values: The United Nations In A Changing Global Landscape Ban Ki-moon THE DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD LECTURE 2016 THE DAG the dag hammarskjöld lecture 2016 Evolving Threats, Timeless Values: The United Nations In A Changing Global Landscape Ban Ki-moon The Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture 2016 This is the text of the annual Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture given by Ban Ki-moon at Stockholm City Hall on 30 March 2016. The Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture 2016 was organised by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and Uppsala University. ISBN 978-91-982875-2-3 Photos by Johan Wahlgren except photo no 2 on page 4 by UN photo Layout by Kristin Blom Printed by X-O Graf, Uppsala Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala, Sweden 2016 Ban Ki-moon Evolving Threats, Timeless Values: The United Nations In A Changing Global Landscape Ban Ki-moon – 5 – The Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture 2016 – 6 – Ban Ki-moon Preface Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, delivered the 2016 Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture, the 18th honoree to do so since the series was instituted two decades ago. Created in memory of the United Nations’ second Secretary-General, the Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture is an annual event given in recognition of the values that inspired Hammarskjöld as a statesman and in his life – compassion, humanism and commitment to international solidarity and cooperation. In selecting speaker, the guidelines state that this rostrum will be offered to a person who, in significant and innovative ways, contributes to a more just, peaceful and environmentally sustainable world through valuable achievements in politics or research.
    [Show full text]
  • Ten Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
    Ten Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement December 2008 BROOKINGS Forced Migration Review FMR – GP10 Forced Migration Review (FMR) provides Elliott Steve a forum for the regular exchange of practical experience, information and ideas between researchers, refugees and internally displaced people, and those who work with them. It is published in English, Arabic, Spanish from the editors and French by the Refugee Studies The international conference on the Ten Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Centre, University of Oxford. FMR was Displacement (‘GP10’) – held in Oslo, 16-17 October 2008 – assessed the accomplishments launched in 1998 in partnership with and shortcomings of the Guiding Principles since their launch in 1998. It also sought to the Norwegian Refugee Council. generate increased political will to incorporate the GPs into national, regional and global frameworks and to encourage progress towards their practical implementation. Editors Marion Couldrey & Maurice Herson This special issue of FMR reflects discussions at the conference, with shortened versions of some of the conference presentations, and also includes a selection of other articles, most of Assistant Editor (Arabic edition) which present case studies on the application of the Guiding Principles in different countries. Unfortunately, the number of IDP groups around the world is too great for us to acknowledge Musab Hayatli them all in this 40-page issue but we hope that the articles presented here will be relevant and useful in other settings as well. Coordinator Heidi El-Megrisi We would like to thank Khalid Koser (formerly of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement) and Christophe Beau (NRC/IDMC) for their invaluable assistance in preparing Assistant this special issue, as well as all contributors.
    [Show full text]
  • Conflict of National Identity in Sudan
    CONFLICT OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN SUDAN Kuel Maluil Jok Academic Dissertation to be publicly discussed, by due permission of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki, in auditorium XII, on 31 March 2012 at 10 o‟clock. University of Helsinki, Department of World Cultures Kuel Jok Conflict of National Identity in Sudan Copyright © Kuel Jok 2012 ISBN 978-952-10-7919-1 (Print) ISBN 978-952-10-7891-0 (PDF) UNIGRAFIA Helsinki University Print Helsinki 2012 ii ABSTRACT This study addresses the contemporary conflict of national identity in Sudan between the adherents of „Islamic nationalism‟ and „customary secularism‟. The former urge the adoption of a national constitution that derives its civil and criminal laws from Sharia (Islamic law) and Arabic be the language of instruction in national institutions of Sudan. The group argues that the intertwined model of the Islamic-Arab cultural identity accelerates assimilation of the heterogeneous African ethnic and religious diversities in Sudan into a homogeneous national identity defining Sudan as an Islamic-Arab state. The latter demand the adoption of secular laws, which must be derived from the diverse set of customary laws and equal opportunities for all African languages beside Arabic and English. The group claims that the adoption of the Islamic laws and Arabic legalises the treatment of the citizens in the country in terms of religion and race and that implies racism and discrimination. In this way, the adherents of the Islamic nationalism imposed the Islamic-Arab model. In reaction, the Muslims and the non-Muslim secularists resort to violence as an alternative model of resistance.
    [Show full text]
  • Francis Deng on Dinka Culture and Human Rights
    197 Francis Deng on Dinka Culture and Human Rights By William Twining, London1 Abstract: In the context of “globalization,” Western jurisprudence has largely ig- nored non-Western viewpoints, interests, and traditions. This article takes a modest step towards de-parochializing our juristic canon by introducing writings about hu- man rights of a“Southern” jurist: Francis Deng (Southern Sudan). Deng argues that traditional values of the Dinka of the Southern Sudan are basically compatible with the values underlying the international human rights regime. *** God asked man, “Which one shall I give you, black man; there is the cow and the thing called ‘What,’ which of the two would you like?” The man said, “I do not want ‘What.’” God said: “But ‘What’ is better than the cow!” God said, “If you like the cow, you had better taste its milk before you choose it finally.” The man squeezed some milk into his hand, tasted it, and said, “Let us have the milk and never see ‘What.’”2 1 Quain Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus, University College London ([email protected]). This paper is an extract from the published text of the Annual MacDonald Lecture, delivered at the Uni- versity of Alberta on March 31st, 2005 and published as William Twining, Human Rights: Southern Voices – Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na’im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi, Review of Constitutional Studies 11 (2006), pp. 203-279. It was reprinted, with minor changes, in id., General Jurisprudence. Understanding Law from a Global Perspective, Cambridge et. al. 2009. The substance of this lecture is reproduced here, with minor changes, by kind permission of the copyright holders.
    [Show full text]
  • Cohen, Roberta
    The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project ROBERTA COHEN Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial interview date: 26 September 2008 Copyright 2015 ADST Q: Today is 26 September 2008. This is an interview with Roberta Cohen. When and where were you born? COHEN: I was born in New York City on February 5, 1940. Q: Let’s start with the family. What do you know about the origins of the family? COHEN: Both sides of the family, all four grandparents, came from Russia -- from Kharkov in the Ukraine; Minsk in Belarus; and in or around Vilna, Lithuania, all part of Russia at that time. They immigrated to the States for different reasons. One grandfather deserted from the Czar’s army in 1904/5 because he didn’t want to fight in the Russo- Japanese War. The other came because of discrimination against Jews in Russia and opportunity in America. When one of my grandmothers died, she left $1000 to each granddaughter and I used mine to visit the Soviet Union in on a citizens exchange tour and found some family members who remained. Q: Where were they at that time? COHEN: In Kharkov, the Ukraine. Originally they came from Lithuania. All family members who remained in Lithuania perished during the Holocaust. The ones in Kharkov managed to escape by fleeing to Kyrgyz in central Asia. When the war ended, they returned to Kharkov and helped rebuild the city and that is where I found them so I know a bit more about my mother’s side of the family than my father’s in Belarus.
    [Show full text]
  • Selected Bibliography
    THE BROOKINGS-CUNY PROJECT ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT Selected Bibliography on the Global Crisis of Internal Displacement December 2001 Selected Bibliography on the Global Crisis of Internal Displacement by Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli December 2001 ACKNOWLEDGMENT The idea for this bibliography on the global crisis of internal displacement arose in preparation for a course on internal displacement designed by Francis Deng at the City University Graduate Center of New York. Although the study of internal displacement is a relatively new one, substantial materials have emerged which are important to bring together and catalog. The attached compilation makes selections from materials available in English with several noteworthy publications in Spanish included as well. It is divided into both thematic and geographic categories. It is intended to prove useful to both scholars and practitioners interested in gaining a better understanding of internal displacement and the national, regional and international strategies being developed to address the needs of those displaced. We are most grateful to Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, Research Analyst at the Brookings-CUNY Project on Internal Displacement, for preparing this bibliography. The author would be pleased to receive from readers any additional materials that they believe should be included since a future edition of this bibliography will be prepared. The author wishes to thank Roberta Cohen for her substantive editorial contribution and guidance. Thanks too go to Erin Mooney and Simon Bagshaw for their comments and additions. Assistance was also provided by Hilary Talley, Galit Wolfensohn, Marianne Makar, Shigehero Suzuki, Philip Orchard and Merja Jutila of the Brookings-CUNY Project. The author is grateful to the various non-governmental and international organizations that assisted this project as well.
    [Show full text]
  • International Response to Internal Displacement: a Revolution in the Making Francis Deng
    Human Rights Brief Volume 11 | Issue 3 Article 7 2004 International Response to Internal Displacement: A Revolution in the Making Francis Deng Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief Part of the Human Rights Law Commons Recommended Citation Deng, Francis. "International Response To Internal Displacement: A Revolution In The akM ing." Human Rights Brief 11, no. 3 (2004): 24-27. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Washington College of Law Journals & Law Reviews at Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Human Rights Brief by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Deng: International Response to Internal Displacement: A Revolution in International Response To Internal Displacement: A Revolution In The Making by Francis Deng E ARE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THE IMAGE. A line of Declaration expanded the definition of “refugee” for their signatories tired people drag their possessions down a road that to include such people. Many state members of the Refugee might be anywhere in the world. They are mostly Convention de facto follow the wider definition included in the latter women and children with a look of desperation in two instruments, even if they are not parties to them. Likewise, the theirW eyes and a long journey ahead. These are persons who have been United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), today a driven from their homes by war, human rights abuses, persecution and billion dollar agency dedicated to the support and assistance of violence.
    [Show full text]