David Miliband Rescue Summary

Each year millions of people throughout the world displaced as a result of conflict and persecution. This ongoing large scale displacement of people has resulted in our current global refugee crisis. In David Miliband’s book Rescue he explores the challenging dynamics of this global crisis by examining our current system of humanitarian aid and the unmet needs of the worlds most vulnerable people. His experiences as the current president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has given him invaluable insights into the nature of the global refugee crisis. His book Rescue is an in depth examination of the issues and solutions facing the current global refugee crisis. In this paper we are going to use Miliband's book Rescue as a

Our current humanitarian aid system does not adequately address the lack of employment opportunities for refugees. As a result of this displaced people cannot escape their dependence from international aid. The lack of work and employment opportunities also contributes to fact that the top ten refugee- hosting countries make up only 2.5 percent of the global income (pg, 26). Without adequately addressing the needs of long term displacement employment opportunities refugees will continue to reside in poverty and face social and political persecution.

Another aspect of the global refugee crisis is that the majority of refugee-hosting countries are overwhelmingly poor. Contrary to the popular held belief that the majority of refugees are in wealthy western countries, the reality is that refugee-hosting countries desperately poor (pg, 29). This means that refugee-hosting countries are exceedingly financially unequipped to address these refugee crisis alone. The lack of international financial support for the major refugee-hosting countries has resulted in the unmet needs of the global