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