ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the refugee crisis in a post-Cold War world, especially as it relates to displaced women and children. Contemporary theopolitics in the Muslim world pits women as political pawns in the ideological warfare gaining momentum among extremist Islamists. Resolving the problem of forced migration and the problem of women in this context is not only a humanitarian issue but a political imperative with which the world community must contend in the coming century US NGOs, as major implementors of the policies of the UNHCR, play a big role in providing refugee relief and development assistance. Public media campaigns put a human face on the blatant inhumanity of man toward man-and woman-that exists today on a global scale. Donor policies aimed at supporting the humanitarian and development-assistance efforts of refugee and displaced women will help fill the gaps created by Western foreign policy in areas in which it was involved in financing the wars that create such women.
