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

By Francis M. Deng, MIT Center for International Studies. Posted June 4, 2007.


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.
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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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