DIIS seminar: Protracted Refugee Situations, Solutions, and the Responsibility to Solve

Currently, more than two-thirds of the world’s nearly ten million refugees are not on the road to a durable solution. Rather they are part of what the UNHCR terms a “protracted refugee situation” (PRS) – defined as one in which refugees continue to be trapped for five years or more after their initial displacement, without immediate prospects for implementation of durable solutions.

Whatever the causes of concrete refugee situations, the results of PRS are uniformly calamitous and it is now time for the international community to dedicate itself to problem solving.

Which rhetoric or moral fulcrum can move the international community into action? Should we envision solutions beyond the existing categories of durable solutions (voluntary repatriation, resettlement, local integration), not because they are the wrong goals but because they now crowd out more flexible approaches that can help unlock PRS?

Speakers:
* Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees
* Thomas Thomsen, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
* Nanna Hvidt, Director, DIIS
* Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, Senior Researcher, DIIS
* Finn Stepputat, Senior Researcher, DIIS

The seminar will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use the online registration form no later than Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 12.00 noon.

Registrate and read more at: http://en.diis.dk/home/seminars/2014/protracted+refugee+situations+solutions+and+the+responsibility+to+solve