More than 65 million persons are currently displaced from their homes because of violence and conflict. Twenty million have crossed an international border and are “refugees”; forty million persons remain in their country of origin (“internally displaced persons”). This course will examine the international legal norms, policies and institutional structures for responding to forced migration. It will consider specific topics, such as gender and forced migration, climate change as a driver of displacement, and the search for solutions to long-standing displacement situations. The objectives of the course are to analyze the current situation of displaced persons, understand the strengths and weaknesses of the existing international architecture, and develop conceptually sound and empirically based proposal for reform.