Presidential Inauguration Academic Panels - Migration and Refugees: A Regional Perspective

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As a result of conflicts the International community has seen a surge in the number of refugees and forced migrants This has been ever so true for the Middle East. In fact the Arab World is the first region hosting and producing asylum-seekers and refugees. As a host, the region has a history of providing protection to refugees such as the Armenian and victims of World War II. From within the region, the Palestinian refugee question is enduring. In the last decade, the Syrian civil strife generated refugee flows in the millions that sought protection in bordering and other regional countries. Yemeni, Libyan and Western Sahara refugees also spread in the region. In the mid-2010s, Syrian refugees reached Europe causing alarm in countries of the European Union, thus shedding greater light on the issue and its challenges.
Refugee flows raise the interrelated questions of international protection and livelihoods. International and regional legal instruments, and customary law, regulate the protection to be provided to asylum-seekers and refugees. Instruments also provide for international cooperation in ensuring protection, livelihoods and durable solutions for the refugees. International cooperation is crucial for enabling host countries to ensure decent livelihoods for the refugees they host. Such as in the Arab region, hosts are mostly developing countries with economic and development burdens of their own.
The panel will discuss all the above issues relating them to the settlement of the conflicts that produced refugee flows in the first place.    

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