A view from inside the kitchen of the Kampala Convention: the modernisation of the international legal regime for the protection of internally displaced persons

In offering a view from the kitchen in this article, the author notes the appraisal of the 10th anniversary of the Kampala Convention, and argues that from its regional domain in the context of its inception and negotiation stretching from 2005 to its adoption in 2009, the Kampala Convention has modernised a somewhat soft static international legal framework relating to internally displaced persons based on the 1998 Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the related 2006 Protocols of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.