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Internally Displaced Persons and Mediation
 In 2010, Conflict Dynamics was commissioned to produce the latest volume of the Peacemaker’s Toolkit series from US Institute of Peace, Integrating Internal Displacement in Peace Processes and Agreements. The new guide was launched on March 5 in Nairobi and is the result of collaboration between the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, USIP, and experts on mediation, peacemaking, and internal displacement. Conflict Dynamics founder Gerard McHugh served as the lead editor.
The 2007 report Addressing Internal Displacement in Peace Processes, Peace Agreements, and Peace-Building of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, concluded that internal displacement has often been addressed in an ad hoc manner in peace processes and peace agreements. It recommended developing guidance for mediators focusing specifically on incorporating internal displacement in peace initiatives. This guide was developed in response to that recommendation. It gives practical guidance to mediators on how to integrate internal displacement in peace negotiations, how to incorporate issues pertaining to internal displacement into peace agreements, and how to engage the internally displaced persons themselves in the peace process.
For more information on the project, the guide, or for more resources visit the Internal Displacement section of our website.
Humanitarian Implications of Sanctions
 On19 November 2004 in New York, CDI President Gerard Mc Hugh and colleagues from the UN Office for the Coordination ofHumanitarian Affairs (OCHA) launched two IASC publications on assessing the possible humanitarian implications of sanctions. The Sanctions Assessment Handbook and accompanying Field Guidelines were produced under a Canadian and Swiss funded OCHA project.
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