Conflict and Displacement: Breaking the Cycle - An Address at Harvard University
Dennis McNamara
Address given on February 7th, 2006 at Radcliffe Yard. This event was co-sponsored by the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, in coordination with its Voices of Public Intellectuals series "War and the Displacement of People" and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
Dennis McNamara is Special Adviser to the United Nation’s Emergency Relief Coordinator and Director of the Inter- Agency Internal Displacement Division (IAIDD) with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA) in Geneva. He reports to the Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs.
More than 25 million people displaced by violence and persecution remain within their own countries. The plight of the 'internally displaced' is a human tragedy of immense proportions. Caught in a no-man's land between war and sovereign impunity their fate attracts little international attention and remains largely unreported. Dennis McNamara considers the consequences of mass displacement in contemporary conflicts.
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