An important lesson to be learned from the World Wars is that border shifting is far more detrimental to civilization than relocating refugees. After World War I, many of the borders between nations were redrawn, resulting in local conflicts that often lead to civil wars (Finland, Yugoslavia, Russia). It could even be said that borders catalyzed the rampant nationalism that led to World War II, as countries that thought territory taken away from them unfairly still ought to be theirs (Germany). The leading nations seemed to learn their lesson after World War II, when a mass campaign to relocate refugees went underway across Europe. If they'd just left them where they were, created new countries and changed the map like they had in 1918, then it would have probably resulted in more heated nationalist movements that may have eventually led to World War III.
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