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This Working Paper examines humanitarian negotiations with armed non-state actors in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile. Through interviews with armed groups, aid workers, local and international experts and civilians, the study aims to improve understanding of the opportunities for, and obstacles to, engagement with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) and the Government of Sudan for humanitarian access.
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Talking to the 'other side': humanitarian engagement with armed non-state actors in Darfur, Sudan, 2003-2012
Jonathan LoebThis Working Paper focuses on the humanitarian community’s extensive engagement with rebel movements in Darfur from 2003-2012. Based on first-hand accounts of experiences of aid workers and rebels who participated in humanitarian negotiations, it documents the rise, decline and disappearance of cross-line aid over the last ten years. -
Humanitarian Exchange 58: Humanitarian Negotiations
Humanitarian Practice Network, Ashley Jackson and contributorsThis edition of Humanitarian Exchange, co-edited with Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) Research Fellow Ashley Jackson, features humanitarian negotiations. In many contexts, negotiations with a wide array of actors – both state and non-state – are essential to gaining access to populations in need of assistance. This issue looks at field experiences of undertaking humanitarian negotiations, the challenges and compromises involved and the resources and tools that have been developed to support more effective engagement. -

Talking to the Taliban
As international troops withdraw from Afghanistan and prepare to hand over security in 2014, HPG’s newly published research based on scores of interviews with the Taliban provides a rare insight into their relationship with aid organisations.
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ICRC team at a Kabul checkpoint
Afghanistan: An ICRC team at a Kabul checkpoint manned by one of the numerous armed groups active in the city in 1994
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Credit: © ICRC / Thierry Gassman
Source: ICRC websiteThe other side: humanitarian engagement with the Taliban in Afghanistan
This event launches a new report into how aid agencies engage with the Taliban to gain access to Afghans in need of assistance. It offers a valuable and rare insight into how the Taliban view humanitarian and development assistance. The report draws on dozens of interviews with Taliban militia and leaders and conversely, investigates the approaches used by aid agencies to gain access to populations in Taliban-held territory.
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Talking to the other side: humanitarian engagement with the Taliban in Afghanistan
Ashley Jackson and Antonio GiustozziAs international troops withdraw from Afghanistan this Working Paper sheds light on how aid agencies engage with the Taliban to gain access to Afghans in need of assistance. -
Talking to the other side: Taliban perspectives on aid and development work in Afghanistan
Ashley Jackson and Antonio GiustozziAs international troops withdraw from Afghanistan this Policy Brief sheds light on how aid agencies engage with the Taliban to gain access to Afghans in need of assistance.










