[Excerpt] At nearly 25 years old, the camps in Pakistan are young compared to those set up for Palestinians who fled the 1948 Israeli-Arab war. Generations have grown up in these camps that have produced many of the suicide bombers and other militant, radical opponents of Israeli rule.
.. In Africa, it was the second generation of displaced Rwandan Tutsis who led a successful invasion of that country from neighboring Uganda in 1994. Two years later - perhaps remembering how their own resolve grew in exile - Rwanda's Tutsi-led government cleared out camps in Zaire that were filled with 1 million Rwandan Hutus led by military rulers hoping to regain power in Rwanda. "These people really have no sense of self and no prospects," says UM's Marshall. "So anyone who comes in and offers them some status, a sense of dignity, is likely to be successful in recruiting them. They really see no other way out."
The solution, all seem to agree, is not just to pay short-term attention to the inevitable refugee images - funding the aid agencies to feed the hungry - but to work on a long-term basis to help create viable, peaceful states with functioning economies that will make those in the camps want to return home. [End Excerpt] Reap the whirlwind