For a sector that prides itself on its ability to respond to emergencies, the humanitarian community has been slow to adapt to the changing picture of global displacement. The numbers of people fleeing war, civil unrest, poverty, religious persecution, and ethnic conflict are proliferating: more people have been displaced by conflict and persecution today than at any other time in recorded history. But the international community has been slow to shift its approaches to the new landscape. The latest estimate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is that as of the end of 2014 there were 59.5 million forced migrants worldwide, up from 37.5 million just a decade earlier....
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