Sublime

State weakness and failure along with civil wars will remain relatively common given the many factors that bring about intrastate conflict and violence. Somalia remains a failed state thirty years after it collapsed, while over the past decade Syria, Yemen, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have all

If every country depended upon foreign suppliers and customers, the web of mutual dependence would be too strong to break.

One of the main themes in this book is the idea that refuge must be understood as not only a humanitarian issue but also one of development. Put simply, it is not just about indefinitely providing food, clothing, and shelter. It has to be about restoring people’s autonomy through jobs and education, particularly in the countries in the developing w

the argument that refuge is as much a development issue as a humanitarian issue, the focus on restoring refugees’ autonomy through jobs and education, the emphasis on creating sustainable safe havens in the countries that host the majority of the world’s refugees, the recognition of a role for business alongside government and civil society, and th

ideas argue that racist policies are the cause

Eight years after the publication of In the Shadow of Just Wars,6 it examines the precept that the political exploitation of aid is not a misuse of its vocation, but its principal condition of existence.

Today over half of the world’s refugees are in ‘protracted refugee situations’ and for them the average length of stay is over two decades. People are born into camps, grow up in camps, and become adults in camps.

ideology, ignorance, and inertia—the three I’s—on the part of the expert, the aid worker, or the local policy maker, often explain why policies fail and why aid does not have the effect it should.