Abstract

This article explores the potential for global platforms to facilitate State-to-State dialogue on internal displacement. It is in this respect concerned with both the usage and performance of existing platforms to date, as well as prospects for the future. It firstly examines the extent to which pertinent political fora concerned with human rights function as appropriate platforms. Secondly, given the close relationship between internal displacement and refugee issues, it explores the scope of existing refugee fora as sites or models for the discussion of internal displacement. Finally, it assesses the prospects for a dedicated global forum on internal displacement, based on incipient processes that currently exist to facilitate peer-to-peer dialogue and exchange among States on IDP issues. It argues that the design and/or mandate of established global fora mean they offer limited prospects for effective State-to-State dialogue on IDP issues. The article concludes by issuing an urgent call to institute a truly global inter-State forum with the explicit purpose of addressing internal displacement, which is without doubt one of the most pressing and seemingly intractable issues of our time.

中文翻译：

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加强国内流离失所问题国家间对话：当前全球论坛和未来前景

摘要

本文探讨了全球平台促进国内流离失所问题国家间对话的潜力。在这方面，它与现有平台的使用和性能以及未来的前景有关。首先，它考察了与人权有关的相关政治论坛在多大程度上充当了适当的平台。第二，鉴于国内流离失所问题与难民问题之间的密切关系，它探讨了现有难民论坛作为讨论国内流离失所问题的地点或模式的范围。最后，报告根据目前为促进各国之间就国内流离失所者问题进行对等对话和交流的初期进程，评估了一个专门的国内流离失所问题全球论坛的前景。它认为，已建立的全球论坛的设计和/或授权意味着它们为就国内流离失所者问题开展有效的国家间对话提供了有限的前景。最后，本文紧急呼吁建立一个真正的全球国家间论坛，其明确目的是解决国内流离失所问题，这无疑是我们时代最紧迫，看似棘手的问题之一。