Displacement is no longer an interruption between two stable lives. It has become a condition of its own and the institutions built to address it were never designed for that reality. When the architects of the postwar international order drafted the 1951 Refugee Convention, they had a specific crisis in mind. Europe was full of displaced people. Camps were filled with those uprooted by a war that had, mercifully, ended. The assumption embedded in every article of that convention was that displacement was an interruption, a temporary rupture that good institutions could bridge.
The international refugee system has collapsed
Host states carrying disproportionate burdens without proportionate support eventually reach their political limits (File/AFP)
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Displacement is no longer an interruption between two stable lives. It has become a condition of its own and the institutions built to address it were never designed for that reality.
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