Stories by Francis M. Deng
Francis M. Deng, a longtime Sudanese diplomat, was from 1992 to 2004 the U.N. Secretary-General's Representative for Internally Displaced Persons. He is now a Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies, and directs the Sudan Peace Support Project.
In countries that are acutely divided by racial, ethnic and religious cleavages and torn apart further by violent conflict, the assumption of national protection and assistance of internal refugees is largely a myth.
Posted on Jun 4, 2007
