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It could provide opportunities for students in Iraq and Palestine whose schools were destroyed and have yet to be reopened, as well as for some half-million Syrian children in Lebanon, displaced by four years of mayhem.
In the east, Russia’s intervention in Ukraine has driven some two million people from their homes – more than were displaced by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina two decades ago.
Moreover, the outcome marks the first time since Nigeria achieved independence from Great Britain in 1960 that an incumbent has been displaced by a rival political party without violence.
When children are displaced, they become highly vulnerable to trafficking and sexual abuse, underscoring the need to act decisively.
As the Nigerian army has pushed into areas previously controlled by Boko Haram, more than two million people have been displaced.
The country is confronting a deep crisis, and urgent action is desperately needed to prevent further violence and assist the huge numbers of refugees and internally displaced people.
These institutions are especially important for students from less-advantaged backgrounds and for displaced workers seeking new opportunities.
In fact, recent scientific evidence indicates that the Neolithic Revolution – the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture – spread mostly because farmers displaced hunters, not because hunters learned from them.
A shocking three million Syrian children have now been displaced.
Many are separated from their families, and thousands more join the ranks of displaced persons every day in what is becoming the largest humanitarian catastrophe of our time.
Colombia’s civil war, which lasted for six decades, has killed an estimated 220,000 people and displaced another six million.
In time, PEER will serve as a conduit to higher education for displaced students worldwide, and it will cater to all education levels, by providing web-based information, points of contact, and much-needed counseling and support.
But education for displaced people is lost in this framework between humanitarian aid, which focuses on immediate needs such as food and shelter, and development aid, which targets longer-term projects.
Over the past three years, at least 160,000 people have been killed, nine million displaced, and three million refugees have flooded into neighboring countries.
They currently aid more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees, including a half-million who are internally displaced, traumatized, angry, and bewildered by the lack of outside assistance.
According to MGI research, in Singapore alone, 800,000 full-time-equivalent jobs could be displaced by 2030 due to automation.
The old jibe about American prosperity was that it was composed of jobs flipping hamburgers and armies of homeless people; the new joke seems to be one of Silicon Valley billionaires and displaced workers from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The tech sector seems to follow a classic pattern of Schumpeterian creative destruction, whereby successive waves of monopoly ascension give way to displacement: cell phones replaced landlines; email displaced postal mail; and social media and texting are supplanting phone calls.
The American working class wants someone to pay attention to the fact that their jobs have been displaced by technology and globalization.
Those who are displaced will have far better prospects in the more prosperous and inclusive environment that the sharing economy promises to create.
This story doesn’t end well for Trump’s angry, displaced Rust Belt voters.
Countries’ efforts to rely on renewable energy supplies are similarly ineffective, given that the displaced fossil-fuel-based energy remains economically attractive, which means that it is used elsewhere or later.
French taxpayers' money is better spent on temporary benefits for displaced workers than on subsidies to keep an unprofitable plant alive.
Such a mission could begin the process of rehabilitating the region, allow those displaced by the violence to return, and facilitate the reintegration of the Donbas into Ukraine with appropriate safeguards and devolved powers.
Genuinely free and fair local elections, with the participation of all displaced people and refugees, will never be possible without a substantial international presence.
International cooperation among governments is necessary to help displaced people, but it is not always sufficient.
Obviously, the fossil-fuel sector would shrink by 2020 as the energy system decarbonizes, with coal being partly displaced by lower-carbon fuels, mainly gas and renewables (carbon capture and storage and nuclear power cannot make much of a difference by 2020).
So, instead of improving their competitiveness, the agreement is likely to increase the number of displaced workers and producers.
The dire postwar situation led to the creation in 1950 of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which was expected to serve only a temporary mandate, protecting displaced people for three years.
In its 2015 mid-year report, the agency put the number of “forcibly displaced” people worldwide at 59.5 million at the end of 2014, including 19.5 million internationally displaced, which they define as true refugees.
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