We were unable to load Disqus. If you are a moderator please see our troubleshooting guide.

Rebecca Buechel • 9 years ago

and just stop the conflicts

Melissa Farley • 9 years ago

How about we focus on the root cause...refugees are a symptom not a problem. Efforts need to focus on the unstable countries forcing people out. With force if necessary. It is no longer an internal country issue when the war effects the rest of the world. Radical inhuman leaders/govts need to be removed. Period. If terrorism is an issue then put money towards helping the govts. overwhelmed. Refugees want to go home where they built their lives, raised their families. Isn't right we are not fighting to help them get back what was taken away.

Julie V • 9 years ago

I feel like so much is connected. The massive funneling of wealth from the first worlds middle class upwards has tightened everyones belts. When debt and poverty are increasing in the first world, how is anyone supposed to give? The capitalist system without the regulation and re-distribution role governments and services were originally supposed to perform to create equilibrium, is damaging the entire world.
Also, I blame increased conflicts, particularly in the case of IS, on military actions with no reconciliation. I feel that every major military action, such as Iraq, undertaken by first world countries should come with the requirement they spend 50% of the amount they spent on that war, on reconciliation and peace-building efforts in the region they operated. If you go in and bomb a bunch of kids, they see their families killed, and everyone around them says its because those people hate you and your religion and want you all dead.. and no one ever comes and explains otherwise, what the heck do you expect other than those kids to grow up to be extremists. We sure are foggy for being the 'educated' nations. Reconciliation programs after every war, done along with religious and community members from that area.. would save us a hell of a lot of money on future wars, aid money, and lives, in the long run.

Jochen Schmidt • 9 years ago

The question will be, alongside the instruments and tools that could be employed by the private sector engaging with humanitarian aid. Governments of host nations also need to get their act together in order to enable the private sector to be more active. I hope this starts a wider discussion.

oreste assereto • 9 years ago

Are you saying that exectives of mulitnational corporations shoud go to war zones and adyacent zones and install factories to give jobs?
They would need an army to protect them, or else they will be robbed and killed.
You appeal seems to me rather naive.
People is willing to give money, but not to risk their life in foreign countries.
The pictures of executuons by ISIS has been very potent.

Margaret van Valkengoed • 9 years ago

He is not saying that. He says to create jobs in refugee hosting countries, so neighbouring countries of conflict zones. Think about Turkey, Libanon and Jordan, that host millions of refugees from Syria and Iraq. These are not war zones where e.g. IS is fighting. But the people that have fled the war, and have ended up there, need jobs in able to take care of their families and have a more 'normal' live again. While these refugee hosting countries have not enough jobs (even for their own citizens), they restrict the refugees from working, which disables them to provide for themselves, what makes them depend on aid.