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Elizabeth Cullen Dunn is a professor of geography and international studies at Indiana University—Bloomington. She has spent eight years researching aid to displaced people, including sixteen months spent living and working in a camp for internally displaced people in the Republic of Georgia.
The UN's World Humanitiarian Summit came up empty-handed.
Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.
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