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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Given the large number of countries in this study, the range of issues assessed and the nature of data collection,
tracking down data to enable analysis of national responses to internal displacement was a labor-intensive
process. The initial stage of data collection and analysis for the fifteen countries surveyed was undertaken
by a team comprising Erin Mooney, Chareen Stark, Kathryn Plummer, Nina Schrepfer, Anna Alekseyeva and Nick
Dalla Guarda. We are grateful to Christophe Beau, Greta Zeender, Katinka Ridderbos, Sebastián Albuja, Anne-
Kathrin Glatz, Jacob Rothing and Frederik Kok of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre; Nina Sluga and
Cecilia Jimenez of the Norwegian Refugee Council; Peter Van der Auweraert and Liana Paris of the International
Organization for Migration; and Suzanne Schmeidl, The Liaison Office, for their informative comments and feedback
on draft portions of the analysis. We acknowledge the contributions of Jeevan Thiagarajah to the study on Sri
Lanka and of Marie Lall for her insights into the situation in Myanmar. We also express appreciation to Andrew
Solomon, former deputy director of the Brookings Institution–University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement,
for his comments at an early stage of the process and especially to Walter Kälin, former Representative of the UN
Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, who took time out of his busy schedule to
review all of the benchmark analyses. The study also benefited from feedback received on the presentation of the key
findings of the study at the biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration
(IASFM) in Kampala, Uganda, 3–6 July 2011. We are also grateful to Christopher Ingraham for designing the maps
and pie chart included in the report and to Faye Hipsman, Kaitlin Grant, Justin Marcello and Leah Denman for
their assistance in bringing this report to publication. Special thanks also go to UNHCR Photo Unit for generously
providing many of the photographs used in the report, as well as to Albert González Farran-UNAMID, Olivier
Chassot-UNAMID and Lee Ali for kindly providing us with their photographs.
The in-depth research assessments that apply the Framework for National Responsibility to four countries were carried
out by Prisca Kamungi (Kenya), Andrew Solomon and Chareen Stark (Afghanistan), Erin Mooney (Georgia),
and John Schroder and Chareen Stark (Sri Lanka). These four case studies are included as chapter 2 of this volume.
Support for this research was generously provided by the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect of the
University of Queensland.
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