An ICRC delegate with a member of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) in Sudan
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Credit: ICRC/ HEGER, Boris / V-P-SD-E-0 1934
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Humanitarian negotiations are often essential to gaining access to populations in need of humanitarian assistance, but negotiating with armed non-state actors can present formidable challenges. This event will discuss the challenges and compromises involved and the resources and tools that have been developed to support more effective engagement.
On the 3rd of March 2013, SARC staff member Mohieddine Mahmoud died while on duty when heavy shelling wracked Jobar neighbourhood in the suburbs of Damascus.
Most notably, the country is embarking upon a National Dialogue process intended to produce a constitution as well as an elite bargain capable of keeping the nation intact.
Rarely does a research project answer one of its key questions halfway through. This time, however, two years into work on the history of humanitarian action and after an event on the experience of the Middle East and North Africa, we have resolved our enquiry into whether there is ‘a common regional understanding of the meaning, origins and composition of humanitarian action’. The answer is no.
Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance blocked at a checkpoint in Hebron, OPT.
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Knocking on the front door doesn't always get you in. That's been the hard lesson over decades for humanitarians seeking to bring assistance to those in need. This event will address the practical challenges organisations face in reaching those in need, and the strategies adopted to overcome them.
Cash transfer as part of a social security program in Northeastern Kenya.
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Credit: Colin Crowley
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The focus of the roundtable session was on how citizen involvement in cash transfer programme governance and accountability can help support broader state-citizen relations.