How were the Guiding Principles developed?
Led by the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on internally displaced persons, Francis Deng, the Guiding Principles were developed by a group of independent experts from all regions. Principal among the experts were Walter Kälin of the Faculty of Law at the University of Bern (Bern, Switzerland), Manfred Nowak of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (Vienna, Austria), and Robert Goldman of the Washington College of Law at American University (Washington DC, USA).
