In
my first post from the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, I discussed how the international community must not be satisfied simply providing humanitarian aid during conflicts, but instead must seek to eliminate the need for aid to begin with. In the Secretary-General's
words, "We cannot use a band-aid as a cure." A major goal of the Summit is to identify more-sustainable solutions to the staggering humanitarian crises we face around the world.
Now, a day into the conference, having heard from some of the leading minds in the spheres of aid and global development, one of the topics at the forefront of many of the conversations taking place in Istanbul is education.
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