By Megan Gates
The number of people displaced by violent conflict at the end of 2013, hit the highest level since World War II, according to a new United Nations (UN) report released today. The war in Syria has played a major role in increasing the number of displaced individuals, pushing the total up to more than 51 million at the end of last year, the agency’s Global Trends reports. Half of the world’s displaced people are children and of the 51 million, 33.3 million people fled violence but remained in their own country and 16.7 million refugees fled to neighboring countries. “What this demonstrates is that the international community today has very limited capacity to prevent conflicts and to find timely solutions,” said António Guterres, head of the UN refugee agency, to The New York Times. “We see the Security Council paralyzed in many crucial crises.”
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