Part 2 - Refuge - Alexander Betts and Paul Collier.

-Where refugees from - top 5 countries of origin found asylum - end of 2015:

Country of origin:       

Asylum

- Syrian Arab Republic :

- Turkey- 2.5

- Lebanon - 1.1

- Jordan - 0.6

- Other - 1.1.

-Afghanistan: 

- Pakistan- 1.6.

- Iran- 1.0

- other 1.1

- Somalia:

- Ethiopia - 0.5

- Kenya- 0.5

- Yemen - 0.3

- Other - 1.1

- South Sudan: 

- Ethiopia - 0.5

- Kenya- 0.5

- Uganda - 0.2

- Sudan- 0.2

- Sudan:

- Chad -0.3

- South Sudan- 0.2 

- Other -1.1

- While the panic is in Europe , the greatest need is elsewhere. Conflict and crisis zones.

- 'We focus on the 10% who reach the developed world but neglect the nearly 90% who stay in developed regions of the world.'

- Humanitarian silo approach - refugee camps is the silo's default haven.

- '... undermines autonomy and dignity ; it erodes human potential by focusing almost exclusively on people's vulnerabilities...'

- A new approach needs to meet the concerns of doners, hosts and refugees.

- Commonsense idea- refugees need work.'

- refugee' subjected to an international regulatory environment in which they are systematically disconnected from economic activity.'

- Book proposes ' upend this regime: global business could be put to work , bringing to refugees the opportunity to thrive.' 

Chapter 7 - rethinking post- conflict : incubating recovery.

- Mass violence.

- Adam Smith (Scottish economist ) - 1777- ; 'there is a great deal of ruin in a nation ': he meant that societies can absorb a lot of disaster and yet recover.'

- 'What can we do to aid recovery ?'

- we need to have kept policies towards refugees and post conflict reconstruction.

- Recovery after a conflict is hard and conflict can still occur and society can be trapped before it can be resettled.

- South Sudan is an example of this.

                                     
Chapter 9 - Back to the future:

- ' If politicians are not willing to defend what has actually happend , they face a choice. The default option is for them to hunker down and turn their attentions to somthing completely different... Out of sight , out of mind ... Inevitable mishandling of the next unanticipated crisis.'

- Current policy's have failed
- Rethink needed

- The book tried to formulate an alternative , using both our hearts and our heads.