This year's Refugee Law Initiative annual conference convened a Special Workshop on Internal Displacement, bringing together a variety of researchers and practitioners and covering a wide range of thematic topics.
With a session on protracted displacement and durable solutions, we advanced proposals for research priorities that could help improve action on the ground.
With speakers including Professor Walter Kalin and experts from UNHCR, DRC and JIPS, discussions built upon direct experience and identified priority issues such as the impact of internal displacement on host/displacement-affected communities, how to strengthen area-based approaches and the role/capacity of local government bodies within them, looking into the positive and negative impact of collective action to further explore the humanitarian-development nexus, pursuing local integration in challenging environments.
In line with our strategy, we also shared experiences of both the challenges and opportunities for data collection and analysis of displacement in urban contexts in a session alongside various academic researchers and practitioners from ICRC.
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