GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS: SEEKING A PERMANENT SOLUTION

Abstract

Recent upsurge in armed conflicts and the degradation of human rights has resulted in the astronomical rise in the number of refugees around the world. Sadly the international community have failed to hold up the enactments of the United Nations 1951 convention as relating to the rights of the refugees. The authors notes that the United States of America along with her allies have contributed immensely in escalating the crisis in the Middle East through their strategy of providing armed and professional support for terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda in the cases of Libya, Iraq and Syria. These conflicts have further increased the number of refugees in the world. In places like Europe, barbed wire fences have become the welcome sign to these refugees. Europe and some western states have rather deployed strategies to stop the refugees from crossing the seas rather making arrangement on how to welcome and resettle them. In seeking a solution to this menace, the Pope has called for renewed solidarity and cooperation among the leaders of the world as a step in alleviating the plight of the refugees. The pontiff called for interdependence between countries and the assimilation of migrants irrespective of religious or political believes. The authors in this paper believe that the global refugee crisis in the world could be abated if the western powers respect the sovereignty of other countries and also stop the provision of arms and professional support to terrorist groups. This move will reduce the rate and severity of armed conflicts in the world. The authors also recommend the adoption of sincere collaborative effort among world leaders toward the assimilation of refugees around the world.