As Conflict Rages Across the Globe, People are Not Protected in Their Own Country
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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.
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