Matthieu Niederhauser works in the humanitarian field. He has worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Office for Switzerland and Liechtenstein and for the International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Sections of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. He studied geopolitics at King’s College London and holds a MA in International Law from the University of Neuchâtel. This article has been written in the personal capacity of the author.