Kaelin discusses the inadequacies of humanitarian financing models, the utility of existing instruments to address internal displacement, and the need to integrate humanitarian action with long-term sustainable development initiatives. He insists that we have a good grasp of the overall challenge of disaster- and climate change-related displacement, as well as the most effective practices to ensure protection. “So it’s not like we’re totally helpless,” he says, “but what we really need is the political will … at each and every level: bottom-up, regional, international.”

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