Editors note: Elizabeth Ferris is the co-director of the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement and a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. Vittoria Federici is a senior research assistant at the Brookings Doha Center. The views expressed are their own.
"I don't think there are any easy answers in terms of military intervention, supporting the rebels," said Elizabeth Ferris, co-director of the Brookings-London School of Economics Project on Internal Displacement. "These are all complicated and political questions, but giving money to refugees shoul
Date: Aug 02, 2012
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Peter Goodspeed: 'Humanitarian wars' usually end badly
The current international order is in transition. It is almost as if there is a universal yearning for a global system that can keep people safe, said Elizabeth Ferris of the Brookings Institution, author of a soon-to-be-released book, The Politics of Protection: the Limits of Humanitarian Action.