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A collaboration between the UN Refugee Agency's Innovation Service and the University of Florida's Center for Public Interest Communications
A collaboration between the UN Refugee Agency's Innovation Service and the University of Florida's Center for Public Interest Communications
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Communicating the Complexity of Displacement in a Changing Climate
Communicating the Complexity of Displacement in a Changing Climate

Communicating the Complexity of Displacement in a Changing Climate

To ensure that there are no protection gaps, we must be intentional in the way that we communicate about the complexity of human mobility.
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UNHCR Innovation Service
Chapter 1: Make Room for the Most Affected

Chapter 1: Make Room for the Most Affected

How can we combat simplistic and harmful stereotypes shared in stories about refugees?
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UNHCR Innovation Service
Chapter 2: Use Visual Language

Chapter 2: Use Visual Language

Recognizing the complexities of climate change displacement while still navigating the need for accurate terminology is a huge challenge.
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UNHCR Innovation Service
Chapter 3: Tell Stories

Chapter 3: Tell Stories

Communicators need to be careful to not produce oversimplified narratives for why people move.
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UNHCR Innovation Service
Chapter 4: Use Emotion With Intention

Chapter 4: Use Emotion With Intention

Organizations communicating on behalf of refugees often only tell sad stories of loss — here’s how we can tell better stories with emotion.
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UNHCR Innovation Service
Chapter 5: Step Into the World of Your Community

Chapter 5: Step Into the World of Your Community

Simply giving people information and hoping they will take action is not effective. We need to communicate using their values + worldviews.
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UNHCR Innovation Service
Editorials
The failure of empathy for the refugee cause

The failure of empathy for the refugee cause

If data isn’t going to be our savior in creating social change then we can at least count on empathy, right?
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Lauren Parater
The failure of raising awareness for refugees in a world of data, disinformation, and empathy.

The failure of raising awareness for refugees in a world of data, disinformation, and empathy.

Numbers suck: The limits of information in communicating social change.
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Lauren Parater
How science can improve communications about refugees and humanitarian innovation.

How science can improve communications about refugees and humanitarian innovation.

“We’re experiencing a darkening sky for nonprofit organizations and for the social sector, and for people all across our global society…
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Lauren Parater
Why UNHCR is experimenting with communications

Why UNHCR is experimenting with communications

By Ann Christiano and Annie Neimand
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Ann Searight Christiano
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