Patricia Weiss Fagen – Colombia: urban futures in conflict zones

Patricia Weiss Fagen Live Encounters Magazine August 2015

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Colombia: urban futures in conflict zones by Patricia Weiss Fagen.                              Reprinted by special permission of NOREF

Patricia Fagen worked in academia before joining the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 1988, where she served in Washington, DC, El Salvador and Geneva. She has worked for the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank and on a fellowship grant at the U.S. Institute for Peace. From 2000 to 2013 she was a senior associate at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown, and is presently a senior fellow. Her work has encompassed research, field studies and evaluations related to post-conflict reconstruction, refugees, refugee/returnee integration, migrant remittances, disaster management and urbanisation. Her recent research has taken her to Colombia, Liberia, Haiti and the Middle East.

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