Canada has promised it will accommodate 10,000, and the US has committed to resettling several thousand.
The new approach of resettling refugees in a country other than Australia is working.
AS TECHNIQUES for boosting farm yields go, loading peasants into trucks and resettling them far from home has been conspicuously unsuccessful in the past.
Before September 11th, the basic cost of resettling a single refugee was about $1,500 per person.
Refugee camps can be breeding-grounds for extremism; refugees can become political actors in their host country, and their role is often destructive.All this can be an incentive for receiving countries to "resolve" the fate of refugees on their soil by sending them home, by resettling them in another country or by finding the right way of integrating them.
The whole point of democracy is to create consensus and legitimacy so that governments can keep the peace, but our Manichaean two-party system is undermining this grand project.Perhaps we could solve this by forcibly resettling large numbers of conservatives in Brooklyn, or sending large numbers of liberals to Wyoming.
It says it is about "burden-sharing" the responsibility of resettling refugees currently in Malaysia; and it is aimed at undermining the "business model" of criminal syndicates involved in people-smuggling.In these respects, Canberra's deal has support from the UNHCR.
America, for its part, is willing to provide peacekeepers as Israel withdraws from Syria's Golan Heights, and also to lighten the financial burden of resettling up to 17,000 Israeli settlers.Would an Israeli-Syrian-Lebanese peace, the final link in Israel's relations with its neighbouring states, be at the expense of the Palestinians?
Mr Talabani says that during his year in power Mr Jaafari consistently failed to implement Kurdish-Shia agreements on resettling refugees and otherwise undoing Saddam-era ethnic cleansing in the disputed city of Kirkuk.
Last month was the turn, not for the first time, of one of the most crucial: a scheme to redevelop Dharavi slum, allegedly Asia's biggest, which would involve resettling around 300,000 people.At its current pace, the redevelopment of Mumbai is probably not keeping up with the city's worsening decrepitude.
Including the cost of resettling refugees, the war eats up around 30% of the government's budget.
