Humanitarian Negotiations with Armed Groups

Clements, Ashley

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“…[74] Community engagement and negotiation: Creating a good relationship with both the local communities and the armed groups is very crucial in the security day to day operation and the access for the humanitarian intervention. [75] Discussion, negotiation, and arbitration would assist in relieving tension and in fostering comprehension. [75] Operational adaptations: Operational adaptations measures like mobile clinics, remote healthcare delivery, and decentralized aid distribution points can alleviate risks related to static healthcare facilities and supply chains.…”

Section: Mitigating Security Risks and Enhancing Protection Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[75] Discussion, negotiation, and arbitration would assist in relieving tension and in fostering comprehension. [75] Operational adaptations: Operational adaptations measures like mobile clinics, remote healthcare delivery, and decentralized aid distribution points can alleviate risks related to static healthcare facilities and supply chains. [75] International advocacy and diplomacy: At the international level advocacy efforts and diplomatic mediation should also be stressed in order to guarantee that healthcare workers and humanitarian organizations would be safe at conflict zones, which should be followed by adhering to humanitarian principles and international humanitarian law.…”

Section: Mitigating Security Risks and Enhancing Protection Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[75] Operational adaptations: Operational adaptations measures like mobile clinics, remote healthcare delivery, and decentralized aid distribution points can alleviate risks related to static healthcare facilities and supply chains. [75] International advocacy and diplomacy: At the international level advocacy efforts and diplomatic mediation should also be stressed in order to guarantee that healthcare workers and humanitarian organizations would be safe at conflict zones, which should be followed by adhering to humanitarian principles and international humanitarian law. [74] The threats posed to health workers and humanitarian organizations by security in conflict-affected areas are multifaceted and go beyond denial of critical services and supplies in such areas.…”

Section: Mitigating Security Risks and Enhancing Protection Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Harnessing technology for infectious disease response in conflict zones: Challenges, innovations, and policy implications

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Epidemic outbreaks of infectious diseases in conflict zones are complex threats to public health and humanitarian activities that require creativity approaches of reducing their damage. This narrative review focuses on the technology intersection with infectious disease response in conflict zones, and complexity of healthcare infrastructure, population displacement, and security risks. This narrative review explores how conflict-related destruction is harmful towards healthcare systems and the impediments to disease surveillance and response activities. In this regards, the review also considered the contributions of technological innovations, such as the improvement of epidemiological surveillance, mobile health (mHealth) technologies, genomic sequencing, and surveillance technologies, in strengthening infectious disease management in conflict settings. Ethical issues related to data privacy, security and fairness are also covered. By advisement on policy that focuses on investment in surveillance systems, diagnostic capacity, capacity building, collaboration, and even ethical governance, stakeholders can leverage technology to enhance the response to infectious disease in conflict settings and, thus, protect the global health security. This review is full of information for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners who are dealing with the issues of infectious disease outbreaks in conflicts worn areas.

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Section: Mitigating Security Risks and Enhancing Protection Measuresmentioning

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“…'Negotiation' introduces a transactional element that could more easily lead to the erosion of humanitarian principles. 2 Most of the available literature on humanitarian negotiations in armed conflict covers agencies' engagement with the state (Lacharite, 2011), with NSAGs (Jackson, 2014a;Clements, 2019), or with groups subject to counter-terrorism legislation (Modirzadeh, Lewis, and Bruderlein, 2011). While a report by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative focuses on the role of IHL and other legal frameworks in humanitarian negotiations (Grace and Wilkinson, 2016), studies by the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (Mancini-Griffoli and Picot, 2004) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Mc Hugh and Bessler, 2006) highlight the role of humanitarian principles and values during negotiations.…”

Section: Humanitarian Negotiationsmentioning

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Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America

Lucchi¹,

Schuberth

2023

Disasters

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Humanitarian and development agencies intervening in Latin American cities increasingly face the challenge posed by criminal armed groups (CAGs). Yet, there is a need for evidence‐based comparative studies on how international agencies deal with them. Drawing on data collected in Colombia, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, and Mexico, this paper presents a novel typology of humanitarian organisations' access strategies that distinguishes between different levels of interaction with CAGs. The paper shows how humanitarian agencies assess a variety of risks and balance the potential consequences of their engagement with CAGs with the need to maintain constructive and trustful relationships with the state and the community with which they work. It finds that indirect dialogue or negotiation with CAGs via community leaders who act as intermediaries might provide a low‐risk alternative to direct negotiation with CAG leaders, provided that ‘do no harm’ and humanitarian protection considerations vis‐à‐vis communities and intermediaries play a central role.

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“…Humanitarian negotiation is not a new field of endeavour. Humanitarian organizations have long had to negotiate access to civilians by brokering agreements with conflict parties (Clements, 2020;Magone et al, 2011;McHugh, 2006;Pease, 2016). Today, most access negotiations are conducted bilaterally, and at subnational levels, 5 with humanitarian organizations preferring to operate independentlyeither in direct dialogue with parties or through their own intermediaries (Harmer and Stoddard, 2018, p. 11).…”

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Empathy in frontline humanitarian negotiations: a relational approach to engagement

Sutton

Rhoads

2022

Int J Humanitarian Action

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Humanitarian access—people’s ability to reach aid and aid's ability to reach people—is widely understood to be a central challenge in humanitarian action. One of the most important ways in which humanitarian access is practically secured in conflict settings is through frontline humanitarian negotiations. In this type of negotiation, humanitarians engage in face-to-face interactions with conflict parties to secure safe access to, and protection of, civilian populations in situations of armed conflict. An underdeveloped aspect of such negotiations that is ripe for further exploration is the role of empathy. The purpose of this article is thus to draw on the insights of the empathy literature to explore how empathy shapes humanitarian protection work in the specific domain of frontline humanitarian negotiations. Part one conceptualizes empathy, drawing on the interdisciplinary field of scientific research. Part two introduces the practice of frontline humanitarian negotiation and explains why empathy is critical, particularly in the increasingly fragmented environments that negotiators must operate. Adopting a relational approach, Part three advances a framework for analyzing empathy in frontline humanitarian negotiations. We theorize empathy's salience across four different axes of negotiation, drawing insights gleaned from scholarship and a systematic review of the grey literature on humanitarian negotiation, including field manuals, training materials, and operational guidance. We do not ultimately argue for ‘more empathy’ in this type of work, but rather a more thoughtful approach to empathy—one that entails the cultivation of core empathy-related skill areas, including: emotion regulation, perspective-taking, social awareness, and strategic conveyance of empathy. We contend that this approach could help to alleviate numerous problems in the humanitarian sector, including aid worker burnout.

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Humanitarian Negotiations with Armed Groups

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Harnessing technology for infectious disease response in conflict zones: Challenges, innovations, and policy implications

Harnessing technology for infectious disease response in conflict zones: Challenges, innovations, and policy implications

Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America

Empathy in frontline humanitarian negotiations: a relational approach to engagement

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