As Foreign Secretary in Gordon Brown's government, David Miliband was an atypical chief diplomat, especially by introducing social media into the daily life of foreign service, a domain that is usually very reluctant when it comes to transparency and public exposure.
After finishing his mandate and losing the political battle in his own Labour party against his brother, Ed, he is currently the CEO of the US-based International Rescue Committee (IRC). In this quality, he become acquainted with the refugee crisis in the Middle East and often visited the various conflict areas in Africa. Out of around 25 million official refugees and asylum seekers in the world, only 4 million of them are in camps which creates a need for offering support, especially at the policy level for those seeking a new citizenship status.
His experiences and warnings in this respect are the subject of a book recently published: Rescue. Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time, which outlines pretty accurately the main challenges and reform directions in this field. Easy to read and appealing to a diverse public, the book is especially recommended to anyone interested to get an idea about the problem, but further development and references are more than necessary. It outlines the historical processes and the need to have a coherent response to populism, but equally a bussiness mindset aimed at obtaining adequate funding. 'Support for refugees is not only about high ideals and global leadership. One of the complex challenges for countries in this crisis centers around responsibility'. The more countries, institutions and individuals are involved the better for offering a proper answer to the current crisis and challenges, shaped not only by political circumstances, but equally by social and human responsibility.

RESCUE by David Miliband is compassionate, inspirational, and humbling. Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), subtitles his first book "Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time." He explains that his own parents were refugees and offers a call for action in both the book and this video (online here, too):
Video is embedded in blog post and can be found here: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_miliband_the_refugee_crisis_is_a_test_of_our_character

Miliband cites numerous statistics, such as "60 percent of all refugees live in urban areas, not camps." He describes the differences in needs for housing, food, education and health care as well as the impact on the cities' infrastructure. Continuing, he notes that "the assumption that the majority of refugees live in camps as opposed to urban areas is not the only mismatch between perception and reality." Another has to do with long-term displacement where, for example, approximately a third of the 330,000 refugees in a camp in eastern Kenya were born there. That camp is called Dadaab and was built 25 years ago (see also City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence). Clearly, these numbers are disturbing – can you imagine living your entire life in a camp?