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Johannes C. van Nieuwkerk
Johannes C. van Nieuwkerk

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Feb 15

Gaziantep after the Earthquake?

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…

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Gaziantep after the Earthquake?
Gaziantep after the Earthquake?

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Jan 5

Global Cultural Adaptation, Convergence versus Divergence

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…

Convergence

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Global Cultural Adaptation, Convergence versus Divergence
Global Cultural Adaptation, Convergence versus Divergence
Convergence

15 min read


Dec 14, 2022

End of Year Reflection: Repopulating Rural Areas through Migration

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…

Refugees

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End of Year Reflection: Repopulating Rural Areas through Migration
End of Year Reflection: Repopulating Rural Areas through Migration
Refugees

9 min read


Sep 25, 2022

Questioning the Geneva Refugee Convention: Irregular versus Regular Migration?

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…

Wdmr

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Wdmr

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Aug 31, 2022

Refugee Reinclusion: Cultural Adaptation

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…

Refugees

21 min read

Refugee Reinclusion: Cultural Adaptation
Refugee Reinclusion: Cultural Adaptation
Refugees

21 min read


Aug 9, 2022

Are All Refugees Equal? A Life in Dignity Approach!

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…

Refugees

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Refugees

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Jun 19, 2022

World Refugee Day: Are All Refugees Equal? A Dignity Approach

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…

Europe

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World Refugee Day: Are All Refugees Equal? A Dignity Approach
World Refugee Day: Are All Refugees Equal? A Dignity Approach
Europe

18 min read


Mar 4, 2022

Reinclusion Instead of Irregular Migration, a New Geneva Convention?

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…

Refugee Crisis

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Reinclusion Instead of Irregular Migration, a New Geneva Convention?
Reinclusion Instead of Irregular Migration, a New Geneva Convention?
Refugee Crisis

7 min read


Dec 11, 2021

End of Year Reflection: Reinclusion Instead of Refugee Resettlement & Irregular Migration, a New Geneva Convention?

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…

Geneva Conventions

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End of Year Reflection: Reinclusion Instead of Refugee Resettlement & Irregular Migration, a New…
End of Year Reflection: Reinclusion Instead of Refugee Resettlement & Irregular Migration, a New…
Geneva Conventions

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Oct 2, 2021

Will Europe Become an Upscaled Riace?

Unfortunately it is time for an unusual newsletter. On the 2nd of October 2018 Domenico Lucano, the now ex-mayor of Riace and initiator of one of the most successful social experiments for refugee integration in Europe, was placed under house arrest. Three years later, this week, he was convicted to…

Rural Development

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Will Europe Become an Upscaled Riace?
Will Europe Become an Upscaled Riace?
Rural Development

5 min read

Johannes C. van Nieuwkerk

Johannes C. van Nieuwkerk

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Concept & Strategy Developer, Initiator at Refival.org

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