Abstract
The Comprehensive Plan of Action for Indochinese Refugees, 1989-1997, has been hailed as a model of international solidarity and burden-sharing and criticized as an example of international buck-passing and questionable compromises. Looking back on this agreement-one in which both Sergio Vieira de Mello and Arthur Helton played significant roles-a fair conclusion might be that it was both. Though flawed in its implementation, however, the CPA does serve as a model of how interlocking commitments-to asylum, resettlement and repatriation-can promote regional cooperation in response to protracted refugee crises. Considering their roles in the CPA, though they operated from different institutional vantage-points, both de Mello and Helton showed an ability to combine humanitarian principles with political pragmatism.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 319-333 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Journal of Refugee Studies |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Political Science and International Relations