The Symposium was significant in producing by consensus a Statement of Principles, reproduced below, that sets a framework for action to prevent and mitigate environmentally induced population displacement and to address the negative environmental consequences of mass migration.In all discussion sessions and presentations, environmental destruction was consistently analysed in its wider socio-economic and political context. This allowed the Symposium to take a significant step forward in the current thinking about the complex connections between natural resource management and use, land tenure legislation, conflict and population displacement.