Friday 29 April 2016

Thy Neighbor’s Keeper: Improving Global Humanitarian Response (Stewart M. Patrick, Theresa Lou, CFR)

Migrants and refugees sit on a railway track at a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, April 3, 2016. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)

A record-setting sixty-million individuals are currently displaced due to violent conflict. While the world’s attention has been gripped by the million who have reached Europe’s shores over the past year, the global crisis of displacement is vastly greater in scope. In anticipation of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey in May 2016, the International Institutions and Global Governance program held a workshop to diagnose shortcomings of the current humanitarian regime and propose recommendations for its reform. Here are five important takeaways.

http://blogs.cfr.org/patrick/2016/04/28/thy-neighbors-keeper-improving-global-humanitarian-response/

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