What will drive future refugee crises?
George Rupp: We normally get into a situation which we’re involved because of an emergency and so we have an emergency response unit that goes in very quickly. I think it’s fair to say that most of the emergencies we’ve responded to in the last couple of decades have been caused by conflict. Usually, conflict within a single country rather than between countries. That’s been the driver for our immediate past feud decades but we anticipate going forward that there will be increasing refugee or movement of people because of climate changes, that’s already evident in some places we were involved. For example in Sudan, we’ve all heard about the conflict in Darfur and it’s rightly attributed to ethnic conflicts between Arab-speaking militias and local… Arab-speaking pastoralists and their allied militias and then local farmers but an additional driver is that the desert is moving south so the pastoralists used to have enough land for their cattle their graze, as the desert has moved further
