On June 26, the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement will host a culminating event to look back on over 20 years of ground-breaking accomplishments and identify future challenges for working on issues of internal displacement. This is a remarkable story of how international law was made and the humanitarian world changed through the collaboration between an independent U.N. expert and a U.S. think-tank, supported by international lawyers, governments, NGOs, and academics. Speakers will include key actors in putting internally displaced persons (IDPs) on the international agenda, including Francis Deng, Walter Kälin, Chaloka Beyani, Roberta Cohen, and many others.
Martin Indyk, executive vice president of the Brookings Institution, will provide opening remarks. Roberta Cohen, nonresident senior fellow and founding co-director of the Project on Internal Displacement will moderate the first panel and Elizabeth Ferris, senior fellow and co-director of the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, will moderate the second panel.
After the panels, the speakers will take audience questions.
A public reception will follow at 5:30pm in the Saul-Zilkha Room.
