Leaders walk in shoes of refugees

Standing in a dark room, I was taken aback by the sound of guns as shouting soldiers burst in, hurtling us this way and that. In the noisy, humid air rank with smoke, I could make no sense of my surroundings.

In that moment, I almost forgot that I was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in the Swiss Alps, where global elites gather every year.

Indeed, I was, but I also was in a 75-minute simulation created by the Crossroads Foundation to help forum participants understand refugees' plight.