Coordination Team
Researching Internal Displacement
DRC. Kigonze displacement camp 2023 © UNHCR/Joel. Z. Smith
The Researching Internal Displacement Platform is managed by the leads of the networks that it hosts, working jointly with the platform’s editors.
Current network leads:
〉 Obonyo Francis Alponse – GENIDA
〉 Dr Beatriz Eugenia Sánchez Mojica – LANID
〉 Dr Hana Asfour – MERNID
〉 Dr Winifred Ekezie- HIDN
〉 Professor David Cantor – IDRP
Current website editors:
〉 Steven Miron – Joint Editor-in-Chief
〉 Melissa Weihmayer – Editor
〉 Heather Livingood – Editor
〉 Sarah Maduri – Editor
〉 Ana Paola Murillo – Editor
〉 Ekaterina (Kate) Pesegova – Editor
〉 Annette Andrews – Editor
FUNDING
The website was initially supported by the UKRI GCRF INDCaP project grant.
LATEST NEWS
For our growing readership, we invite new and original contributions in 2024 on five specific themes
EVENTS
A new report by the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur, examines the phenomenon of internal displacement in the context of organised criminal activity. Experts at the Refugee Law Initiative's Internal Displacement Research Programme provided submissions to the report. Their submissions were subsequently published as a collection by Researching Internal Displacement.
UNHCR’s Global Report on Law and Policy on Internal Displacement: Implementing National Responsibility 2025 is now available in English, Spanish and French, with the Arabic version available soon. Coordinated, researched and drafted by Martina Caterina (UNHCR, Division of International Protection) and Prof. David Cantor (University of London, Director of the Refugee Law Initiative), the report presents an overview – global and by region - of key legal and policy instruments and developments related to prevention, protection and solutions for IDPs. The report assesses how the response to internal displacement is framed by domestic law and policy on internal displacement and examines the institutional response in selected countries.