While the Arab Spring and its resulting political upheavals have firmly held the world’s attention over the past two years, the Middle East’s conflicts are, sadly, far from the only ones going on. Wars in North, West, and East Africa have displaced millions of people and killed untold more. Those lucky enough to escape with their lives often end up living in a squalorous political limbo in one of these massive "temporary" encampments—like nine of the largest, below.
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While the United States discusses about the political convenience of bombing President Assad’s military, some of the two million Syrian refugees are begging Obama to attack at once. According to Spanish newspaper El País, that’s the opinion of many of the 144,000 Syrian exiles surviving at Zaatari, a refugee city made of tents in Jordan. It looks like a scene from an post-apocalyptical movie.
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If there’s any company on earth with an expertise in designing things that are easy to transport and assemble, it’s Ikea. So it makes perfect sense that the Swedish furniture manufacturer would team up with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees—or the UNCHR for short—to redesign the temporary shelters that millions of refugees around the world call home.
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