Appendix Workshop on the Demography of Forced Migration
Committee on Population
National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW
NAS Board Room
Washington, DC
November 6-7, 1997
AGENDA
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November 6 |
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POPULATION ESTIMATES |
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8:30 |
Continental breakfast |
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9:15 |
Welcome Faith Mitchell, National Research Council |
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9:30 |
What Do We Need to Know About the Descriptive Demography of Forced Migration? Charles Keely, Georgetown University |
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9:45 |
Comments Bela Hovy, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees |
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10:00 |
Comments Thomas Argent, U.S. Committee for Refugees |
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10:15 |
Discussion |
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10:30 |
Break |
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10:45 |
Data Sources: How Much Do They Differ and Why? Susanne Schmeidl, Consultant, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees |
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11:00 |
Comments Bela Hovy, UNHCR |
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11:15 |
Comments Thomas Argent, USCR |
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11:30 |
Comments Allan Hill, Harvard University |
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11:45 |
The Politics of Data Collection: Uses and Abuses Richard Black, University of Sussex |
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12:00 |
Discussion |
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12:15 |
Lunch |
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POPULATION COMPOSITION AND VITAL RATES |
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1:15 |
How a DART (Disaster Assistance Response Team) Works Gregory Garbinsky, OFDA, USAID |
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1:45 |
The Experience in Estimating Population Composition and Mortality Rates Brent Burkholder, CDC |
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2:15 |
Comments Kenneth Hill, Johns Hopkins University |
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2:30 |
Comments Ronald Waldman, The BASICS Project |
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2:45 |
Break |
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3:00 |
Discussion |
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3:15 |
Thoughts on the Potential Use of Sample Surveys Courtland Robinson, Johns Hopkins University |
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3:30 |
Discussion |
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4:00 |
What Do We Know About Estimating Fertility Rates? Kenneth Hill, Johns Hopkins University |
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4:15 |
Discussion |
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5:00 |
Adjourn |
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6:00 |
Dinner—NAS Members' Room Guest speaker: The Honorable Thomas C. Sawyer ''U.S. Refugee Policy: What Congress Needs to Know'' |
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November 7 |
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8:30 |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:15 |
Issues Relating to the Collection of Data on Internally Displaced Populations Jon Bennett, The Global IDP Survey |
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9:35 |
Comments Steven Hansch, Refugee Policy Group |
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9:50 |
Discussion |
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10:15 |
Summary: Populations, Composition and Vital Rates Charles Keely, Georgetown University |
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RESEARCH AGENDA |
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10:30 |
Research Agenda for the Study of Forced Migration Myron Weiner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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10:50 |
Comments Allan Hill, Harvard University |
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11:00 |
Break |
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11:15 |
Discussion: Possible themes for an NRC study |
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12:30 |
Lunch, Adjournment |
