Expert commission on the causes of flight
The Federal Government's expert commission on the causes of flight was set up on July 3, 2019 by a cabinet decision. It consists of 24 experts from science and practice and will submit recommendations to the Federal Government and the Bundestag by the end of 2020 for Germany's commitment to reducing the causes of displacement and irregular migration. The commission is made up of gender parity and its kick-off meeting took place on October 2, 2019. Presided take Gerda Hasselfeldt , President of the German Red Cross , and Bärbel Dieckmann , former President of Welthungerhilfe , equally true.
In addition to the original triggers of flight and irregular migration, the Commission's work should also take into account the situation in regional host and transit countries with a view to the causes of onward movements. In a final report, concrete proposals for short, medium and long-term implementable and effective measures for the future commitment of the Federal Government and the European Union are to be submitted to the German Bundestag and the Federal Government.
Members
The members of the expert commission are independent in their work. They are supported by a secretariat that was set up in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and is supported by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs (BMI) and the Federal Foreign Office (AA). Other departments are involved, as far as the content is concerned.
Chairperson
- Bärbel Dieckmann , President of Welthungerhilfe a. D.
- Gerda Hasselfeldt , President of the German Red Cross
Members
3. Steffen Angenendt, Head of the Global Issues Research Group, Science and Politics Foundation (“Refugee Movements and Development Cooperation” project), Global Migration Data Analysis Center (GMDAC), Board of Trustees of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development
4. Asfa-Wossen Asserate , management consultant, author, political analyst, chairman of the board of trustees of the German Africa Foundation
5. Dominik Bartsch, UNHCR representative in Germany
6. Thomas Bauer , Professor of Empirical Economic Research at the Ruhr University Bochum and Vice President of the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research , former Chairman of the Advisory Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration
7. Bernd Bornhorst , Chairman of VENRO and Head of the Politics and Global Future Issues Department at MISEREOR
8. Fred-Eric Essam, founder and chairman of ident.africa eV
9. Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel , President of Bread for the World and Deputy Chairwoman of the Evangelical Work for Diakonia and Development
10. Rolf Huber, Managing Director of the Siemens Foundation responsible for development cooperation
11. Alisa Kaps, Head of International Demography at the Berlin Institute for Population and Development
12. Ute Klamert, Assistant Executive Director World Food Program
13. Gerald Knaus , European Stability Initiative (ESI)
14. Heike Krieger , Department of Public Law at the Free University of Berlin, including the project “Human Rights under Pressure - Ethics, Law, and Politics”, member of the DRK expert committee on international humanitarian law
15. Boniface Mabanza Bambu, coordinator of the Church Office for Southern Africa (KASA) with a focus on trade, investment policy and corporate responsibility, D. Sölle Prize 2015 for consistent commitment to African perspectives in Europe
16. Annette Massmann, Managing Director of the GLS Future Foundation Development
17. Dirk Messner , Director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the University of the United Nations (UNU-EHS), Co-Chair WBGU
18. Sylvie Nantcha , Federal Chairwoman of TANG (The African Network Germany), CDU City Councilor in Freiburg
19. Victoria Rietig, Head of Migration Program, German Council on Foreign Relations eV
20. Jürgen Scheffran , Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability at the University of Hamburg, Head of the Climate Change and Security Research Group (CLISEC)
21. Julia Steets, Director of the Global Public Policy Institute
22. Christa Stolle , Executive Vice President, Terre des Femmes
23. Düzen Tekkal , Hawar.Help.eV
24. Volker Treier , head of foreign trade and member of the main management of the DIHK
Origin and background
The establishment of a commission on "Causes of Flight", which is to submit specific proposals to the Federal Government and the Bundestag, was set out in the coalition agreement between the CDU, CSU and SPD of March 12, 2018 for the 19th legislative period in Chapter VIII (Controlling Immigration - Demanding and Supporting Integration) in paragraph 1 (refugee policy), agreed (line numbers 4826–4827). This was preceded by the fact that more than 100 bearers of the Federal Cross of Merit had called for the Bundestag to set up a study commission to combat the causes of flight. The coalition groups then decided to set up the commission as the government's expert commission at the BMZ. To this extent, it was modeled on the Expert Commission for Integration Skills, which works in the same legislative period on the basis of the coalition agreement.
According to the latest report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), almost 71 million people are currently displaced worldwide, including around 26 million refugees, 3.5 million asylum seekers and 41 million internally displaced persons. 4 out of 5 refugees live in their direct neighbors, 84 percent of refugees worldwide find refuge in developing or emerging countries, 9% of global refugees live in the EU. In addition, there is an unquantified number of irregular migrants. There are many reasons for flight and irregular migration. The commission should therefore deal with the broad spectrum of refugee and migration-related topics - from conflicts, human rights violations and political persecution to resource scarcity, structural food insecurity, inequality and the consequences of climate change. In addition to the analysis of current relationships, an outlook on the future development (scenarios) of the main causes of flight and irregular migration should be given.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Members of the "Causes of Flight" commission appointed. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
- ↑ epd, dpa: Cross of Merit: Germany must fight the causes of flight. In: Tagesspiegel. Tagesspiegel Verlag, April 4, 2017, accessed on December 16, 2019 .