published December 2006

Contents

Introduction
Francis Deng and Walter Kälin

A personal tribute to Roberta Cohen
by Francis M Deng

The future of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
Walter Kälin

Placing IDPs on the international agenda: lessons learned.
Petter F Wille

I first met Roberta…
by Maria Stavropoulou

Humanitarian reform and new institutional responses
Dennis McNamara

UNHCR’s role in IDP protection: opportunities and challenges
Erika Feller

ProCap: new approach to protection

Protection of IDP women, children and youth
Dale Buscher and Carolyn Makinson

Improving IDP data: prerequisite for more effective protection
Elisabeth Rasmusson

IDP protection at the national level in South Asia
Paula Banerjee

A road map to the end of displacement in Sri Lanka?
Jeevan Thiagarajah

How far may Colombia’s Constitutional Court go to protect IDP rights?
Manuel José Cepeda-Espinosa

Regional or national protection for Great Lakes IDPs?
Zachary A Lomo

Development-induced and conflict-induced IDPs: bridging the research divide
Michael M Cernea

Studying IDPs: retrospect and prospect
Susan Martin

The Project: a replicable model of innovative response?
Thomas G Weiss

Looking toward the future
by Elizabeth Ferris

In her own words
tribute from FMR editors