Trends on all major indicators have since the late 1970s pointed towards an increasingly serious world refugee situation. To promote the understanding of this problem, an analytical model is presented and applied. The problem is seen as composed of seven major clusters of factors and the network of relationships between them. The basic compo nents are refugee situations, the conflicts from which they mainly arise, and the efforts to manage and resolve these situations. For understanding the dynamics of the problem, the political and military activities of the refugees and the processes through which refugee situations are interna tionalized are also singled out for particular consideration. In addition, the approach proposed seeks to integrate developmental and environmental factors into the total picture of the refugee problem.
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