Today, the world is marking World Refugee Day in honor of the 43 million refugees living across our planet. In honor of the millions of women, men and children who have been forced from their homes and had their future thrust into a state of uncertainty.

In reality, what...

One hundred thousand. One hundred thousand lives touched. One hundred thousand refugees separated from family members during their escape from conflict.

On 23 April, Refugees United passed a significant milestone in its short history: The one hundredth thousand refugee in search of missing family registered onto our family tracing...

The buzz of London swirls around me as I settle in to write this post. I don't get to come here nearly as often as I'd like, and each return finds me swearing greater attendance in this school of wonder.

And I'm double-wondered this time as we're here on...

While technology takes center stage in the world of Refugees United and our mission to reconnect separated refugee families, it is but an enabler. In order for us to help sometimes illiterate or semi-illiterate refugees navigate our mobile family tracing platforms to find missing loved ones, there's a...

Young people are the future many say. They aren't, really, anymore than middle aged, old and newborn people are. The future of people lies in the hand of people, and how we engage with and treat each other. What shortcomings the inexperience of a youngster bestows upon the world should...

"The future of aid is not a one-way street," WIRED magazine recently quoted me, Christopher, from a speech I delivered at their 2011 conference in London. I could also have spoken about dead-end streets, the streets that have no name, or no streets at all, as is often the case...