Climate change and disasters are increasingly shaping patterns of migration, raising urgent questions about international protection, risk reduction and migration governance.
What approaches are being developed to prevent displacement, support affected communities, and ensure rights-based solutions? How do these responses intersect with broader challenges of conflict, inequality and development?
This seminar explores how global policy frameworks are responding to the complex realities of displacement and migration, linked to environmental stressors.
A panel of PRIO researchers will offer insights drawing on research on migration, conflict and displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa and globally.
The keynote speaker, Walter Kälin, will provide a critical assessment of recent international developments and reflect on the evolving role of policy in addressing climate-related human mobility.
Mr. Kälin is professor emeritus for international and (Swiss) constitutional law, University of Bern/Switzerland. He is the Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement and Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Bosch Academy. He is also the former Envoy of the Norwegian/Swiss co-chairs of the Nansen Initiative on disaster-induced cross-border displacement (2012 to 2015) and the former Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons.
Speakers
- Walter Kälin, Keynote speaker
- Andreas Forø Tollefsen, PRIO Senior Researcher
- Tone Sommerfelt, PRIO Senior Researcher
- Marta Bivand Erdal, PRIO Research Professor and event moderator
