First of all, it's a huge question.
One of the challenges of ranking the various threats to displaced populations is that we can miss the interconnected nature of these threats. When we look at the levels of displacement—in Sudan, for example, they were noted as four and a half million outside of the country and about nine and a half million internally displaced—we see that the threats are myriad: constant bombardment by drone attacks inside; repeated levels of displacement; sexual violence, both inside the country and within camps; a lot of the exclusions I spoke about in the wider region that young people are facing; the social polarization; the division; the economic hardship; and the trauma that's been discussed by others in the committee. Sudan is just one example. We speak, and testified, specifically about Sudan because of some of the work and research we've been doing there, but you could transplant that experience to the Rohingya in Cox's Bazar. You could talk about this in terms of prolonged displacement in Syria and in Colombia, where we do a huge amount of work—again, it's undercovered as a displacement crisis, but it has one of the largest internally displaced populations in the world.
I think we have to look at the complexity of the layers of what's happening to these populations, the connections between these populations and either receiving communities or host communities where they're staying, as well as how we build them together.
The legal challenges that have been raised continue to be a challenge, but one of the central things that concern me—and you noted my work on mediation and peacemaking—is our failure to make peace. The vast majority of these situations come from conflict and our inability to take a leadership role globally in seeking durable solutions for peace. I would suggest that this is something in which Canada could play a stronger leadership role, not only in terms of supporting civilian-led efforts for peace in Sudan but also within conflict contexts around the world. I think it's a particularly important priority area for Canada at this time.