Referred to by the abstractly bureaucratic term, "internally displaced persons" or IDP's, some 25 million people in 50 countries fall between the cracks of international law, overlooked and under-served by both their governments and international agencies already overstretched to deal with refugees driven outside their own countries. What can be done to meet the needs of these orphans of conflict.
This program was funded by The Compton Foundation.
Jenny Pearlman-Robinson, Protection Program Officer for Children and Youth, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Mark Malan, Peacebuilding Program Officer; Refugees International
Donald Steinberg, Vice President for Multilateral Affairs, International Crisis Group
(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)
Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Gregg McVicar
Associate Producers: Naihma Deady, Matt Fidler
Production Engineer: Michael Schwartz
Music in this program: Open- "Exodus" by Bob Marley and the Wailers - Island Records; "No more Trouble" by Bob Marley and the Wailers - Island Records; "Living Like a Refugee" by Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars - Anti Records; "What's Goin' On" by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band; (Various Tracks) by Elliot Goldenthal - DG/Universal; "A United Earth" by Alan Stivell and Yousou N'Dour - Putamayo World Music
Duration: 55:00 minutes
The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, with some 145 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.
Refugees International generates lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced people around the world and works to end the conditions that create displacement. He wrote a position paper on the Kivus Conference on Peace, Security and Development
Donald Steinberg, who formerly worked in the Clinton White House, has written a speech entitled The Role of Displaced Persons in Peacetalks and Peacebuilding.
The IDP Voices Project has developed an oral testimony methodology, a story of "hidden histories", to show the complexity of individual experiences, to bring home the realities of everyday life, reveal hidden spheres of experiences and hidden connections, and deepen understanding of the past. They work to record the stories of internally displaced persons, and share them, anonymously, on the world wide web.
An article about Angelina Jolie and her work to assist Internally Displaced Refugees. Here is an opinion piece written by Angelina Jolie.
Comments
Wars and conflicts never benefited humanity, the outcome has been that of millions of orphans and IDPs as we call it. For sometime these displaced people are given aid but what happens after the refugee camps get dismantled is disturbing. By the time they are freed to go back to their own lands many cannot even recall the location of their own homes. They are physically as well as mentally displaced, they reach their land but is lost and while struggling to survive most end up as law breakers, drug addicts and prostitution.
Their government have to help it's people out and initiatives from international bodies and non profit organisations should volunteer in this human cause, for the sake of humanity. We on our part as well can do charitable works.
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