Comprises four articles discussing some of the challenges faced by those who have been displaced during the Syria crisis and those who are trying to assist them, and some of the limitations of current humanitarian practice in and around Syria:
- Humanitarian and medical challenges of assisting new refugees in Lebanon and Iraq by Caroline Abu Sa’Da and Micaela Serafini (Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland)
- Failure to adapt: aid in Jordan and Lebanon by Jon Bennett
- Dimensions of gender-based violence against Syrian refugees in Lebanon by Ghida Anani (ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality)
- Conflict in Syria compounds vulnerability of Palestine refugees by Gavin David White (UNRWA)