Intro Looking at the pictures of the catastrophic earthquake in Türkiye and Syria, first aid and emergency relief are of course the priorities at the moment. All donations are therefore welcome and urgently needed. However, this aid is in principle temporary and should not blind or prevent the international community…

Intro The root of my vision is cultural communication improvement through enhancing the use of one’s communication dimensions. The concepts used, are derived from my work in information science and analyzing cultural differences over the past three decades. This effort has led to building detailed new dynamic cultural communication models…

Intro Looking back on 2022, a new refugee crisis is looming and there is a fierce discussion going on about the dissimilar treatment of groups of people. This year I wrote four essays about improvements or solutions: one discusses people’s reinclusion, one proposes to use dignity instead of equal treatment…

Facing a daily growing number of refugees and with worldwide already more than 100 million people displaced, we are meanwhile urgently forced to dispute the operation and effectiveness of the Geneva Refugee Convention. If necessary, it will require adaptation to a new reality. However, change is hard and risky…

Intro My latest two articles recommend changing our attitude towards refugees from passively waiting for people to irregularly arrive via smugglers, to handling proactively via organized relocation and evacuation. For refugees, being dislocated from their culture and frequently facing cultural communication differences in their new environment, interaction is complicated…

100 million people are forcibly displaced, a rising number A growing number of more than 100 million people are currently forcibly displaced. Therefore, as proposed in my previous article, we urgently need a new definition of what a refugee is. Instead of passively waiting for people to irregularly arrive…

100 million people are forcibly displaced, a rising number A growing number of more than 100 million people are currently forcibly displaced. Fortunately, not everyone needs our help, but a growing number regrettably do. However, the level of assistance people need to rebuild their lives after their ouster strongly differs…

Luckily, not all 84 million currently forcibly displaced people worldwide require assistance. But UNHCR resettlements and Complementary Pathways, the organized relocation options, are presently only able to address a tiny fraction of the formal requests received. This lack of legal options forces many refugees to migrate irregularly and numbers are…

This year, it has been 70 years since the Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees was signed. The agreement has helped many and is still very relevant today, particularly its non-refoulement clause which forbids sending people back to unsafe countries. However, the convention has become stretched to its limits…