Bringing Displaced Persons into Peace Processes: Good for Them, Good for Peace

9 June 2010: Some 26 million people have been driven from their homes and forced to resettle into another part of their own country due to conflict, natural disasters, development projects, or other reasons. The United Nations recently launched guidelines for integrating internal displacement into peace processes and agreements. Donald Steinberg, Crisis Group’s Deputy President for Policy, served on an advisory panel for those guidelines, and talks about the plight of internally displaced persons and the importance of empowering them to build lasting peace.

 

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