1. Refugee Compacts: Addressing the Crisis of Protracted Displacement
- Author:
- Cindy Huang and Nazanin Ash
- Publication Date:
- 04-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Center for Global Development
- Abstract:
- The world is witnessing higher levels of displacement than ever before. The statistics tell the story. Today, an unprecedented 65 million people—including 21 million refugees—are displaced from their homes. Since the start of the Syrian crisis in 2011, 5 million people have fled to nearby Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan. And refugees now spend an average of 10 years away from their countries. Equally striking as the scale of the crisis are the consequences of an inadequate response. Individual lives hang in the balance; refugees are struggling to rebuild their lives, find jobs, and send their children to school. Developing countries that are hosting the overwhelming majority of refugees— and at the same time trying to meet the needs of their own citizens—are shouldering unsustainable costs. We are seeing global stability and hard-won development gains threatened.
- Topic:
- War, Refugee Issues, Territorial Disputes, and Refugee Crisis
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus