Beschreibung:
David Miliband is President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC). From 2007 to 2010, Miliband was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, driving advancements in human rights and representing the UK throughout the world. Miliband graduated from Oxford University in 1987 with a first class honors degree in philosophy, politics, and economics and received a master’s degree in political science in 1989 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he attended as a Kennedy Scholar. President Bill Clinton’s called him, “one of the ablest, most creative public servants of our time.” Rescue is his first book.
This is an important look at one of the most challenging questions the world faces: how is it best to cope with the rising numbers of people forced to leave their homes by conflict? It looks at both the 65 million people displaced as well as the Western countries and what it says about us if we do or don't help.