The International Migration Policy Program convened
a meeting of experts on humanitarian and refugee affairs at White Oak, Florida,
on April 23-26, 1998. The group debated whether the positive and negative innovations
of humanitarian response of the 1990s add up to a fundamental change in the
nature of international humanitarian response or whether they are temporary
deviations from the still-accepted norms represented by the 1951 Refugee Convention
and the Geneva Conventions. Read the Framework Paper
for the White Oak Conference.
