PhD

PREDICTING FORCED DISPLACEMENT USING A GENERALISED AND AUTOMATED AGENT-BASED SIMULATION

Within the last decades, international migration demonstrated an escalating growth with more than 68 million people forcibly displaced worldwide. Forced displacement has a huge impact on society today as 40 million people internally displaced within their home country and 25.4 million refugees fled to neighbouring countries. Forcibly displaced people face several concerns, namely, the choice to stay or flee, the choice to flee internally or across borders, and the choice of destination.