One key notion developed and used by refugee experts and aid professionals is that of the 'refugee warrior'. Especially since the end of the Cold War, we are told, refugees have increasingly and alarmingly developed violent inclinations and, when given the chance to organize and mobilize, turned into security threats to their host countries, thereby causing violent conflicts to "spill over" and drawing entire regions into the abyss. When viewed through the conceptual lens of the thriving literature on refugee warriors, the current Iraqi refugee crisis -triggered by the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and exacerbated since security conditions there collapsed after the bombing of the al-Askari mosque in Samara in February 2006 - appears to be an ideal candidate for developing into exactly such a region-wide threat to stability.

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