The President says we need to find a way to move away from short term disaster responses.
Michael D Higgins made the call at the first ever World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul today.
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He has chastised world leaders for failing to provide adequate support to those in crisis situations and called for a profound re-think of international politics to end the global humanitarian crisis.
President Higgins says we need to find a way to develop the world sustainability: "I think that with recognising the civilian casualties of conflicts.
"How are we to build fundamental trust between the state and the citizen? How are we to get a discourse that is capable to bringing us from responding to short term disasters to sustainable development?"