The other side of trust

Author(s)
Dubois, M.
Publication language
English
Date published
26 Nov 2019
Publisher
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Type
Blogs
Keywords
Accountability and Participation, Capacity development, humanitarian action, Humanitarian Principles
Organisations
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Link
The other side of trust

In the run up its 33rd International Conference, we find that the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has set an overall objective to “[c]reate a common understanding about why trust is so important to humanitarian action.” One might begin such a quest with a simple reflection: why has the problem of (mis)trust been so uniformly viewed in terms of we humanitarians ensuring ‘their’ trust in us?

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