About the Council

 

As record numbers of people are displaced by conflict, persecution, violence, and climate-related events, international cooperation is under growing strain. WRMC serves as a platform for dialogue, collaboration, and action, bringing together experienced leaders from government, international organizations, academia, and civil society to develop practical solutions to some of the world’s most pressing displacement challenges.

 

Chaired by former UNHCR official Ninette Kelley and led by President Fen Osler Hampson, WRMC’s membership includes former heads of government, ministers, diplomats, humanitarian leaders, academics, and human rights advocates from around the world.

 

The Council’s A Call to Action: Transforming the Global Refugee System report, launched in January 2019 at UN headquarters in New York, offers bold, actionable ideas for galvanizing political will and transforming the global refugee system.

 

Through strategic convening, policy development, and engagement with decision-makers, WRMC helps advance innovative ideas, build consensus, and catalyze action on behalf of refugees, asylum seekers, and other forcibly displaced populations.

 

With more than 30 thought leaders, practitioners and innovators from around the world, and supported by a research advisory network, the Council seeks to offer bold strategic thinking about how the international community can comprehensively respond to refugees based on the principles of international cooperation and responsibility sharing.

• Convene senior leaders and experts across regions and sectors.
• Foster dialogue, cooperation, and partnership among governments, international organizations, and civil society.
• Develop practical policy solutions to displacement challenges.
• Advance innovative approaches that strengthen protection, responsibility-sharing, and durable solutions.
• Support action-oriented responses to emerging displacement challenges. 

Since its establishment in 2017, WRMC has worked to strengthen international cooperation and advance equitable, sustainable, and practical responses to forced displacement.

 

For more information, please contact info@wrmcouncil.org.