Unpacking the issue of refugees’ return to Syria

Perspective of women mediators and experts on the safe, dignified and voluntary return of refugees to Syria

In line with its past efforts and in light of the most recent tragic developments in Lebanon, the Mediterranean Women Mediators Network (MWMN) and its members, in cooperation with IAI, WIIS Italy and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, are promoting an online, behind closed doors roundtable to take stock of the issue of refugees’ return to Syria.

The topic will be discussed from the perspective of international practitioners, women mediators and scholars with extensive experience in the region. The event will reflect on the current challenges facing the Syrian refugees’ prospects of return, and putting forward recommendations for achieving durable solutions to the Syrian refugee situation. Participants in the event will be women mediators from across the Mediterranean region, UN and NGO practitioners, researchers, experts and members of public institutions.