Three years of the war between the president s government and opposition forces. The mass exodus has caused tensions in neighboring jordan, turkey, and iraq. Millions more are displaced within syria. The two sides are unable to make progress towards peace during a recent conference in geneva. Thank you very much for joining us for todays discussion. My name is megan bradley, im a fellow here with the Foreign Policy program at brookings. In particular, i work with the brookings l. S. C. Project or internal displacement which works to promote the hueman rights and wellbeing of refugees and internally displaced persons around the world. In particular we work to support the mandate of the u. N. Special repertoire on human rights of internally displaced persons. The codirector of the project had hoped to be here today to moderate todays discussion, but unfortunately due to a family emergency was unable to be with us. Its a real pleasure for me to step in to moderate such an excellent discus