Yes, I think it's very important. One of the problems in the Middle East is that, yes, there needs to be construction and things like that, but even prior to that, there needs to be the emergence of a civil society there. Otherwise, you just go from movable refugee camps to more permanent refugee camps. Right now all of that region lives under authoritarian governments and they basically don't have the structures of civil society. While the physical needs have to be met—that's clear—there are socio-political things that have to be developed if those countries are going to develop any kind of pluralistic stability.
On November 20th, 2014. See this statement in context.