Brookings and SAIS Form Joint Project to Aid Internally Displaced Persons

From: U.S. Newswire | Date: August 28, 2002 | Copyright information

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Brookings Institution and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) have created a joint project to promote more effective national, regional, and international policies to deal with the crisis of 25 million people displaced within the borders of their own countries by war and ethnic strife.

The project will be co-directed by Francis M. Deng, the UN Secretary-General's representative on Internally Displaced Persons (ID...