Preserving the integrity of humanitarian negotiations
August 2013. Humanitarian negotiation is a special form of engagement, for exclusively humanitarian purposes, with communities, parties to armed conflict, governments and other actors. In armed conflicts and other situations of crisis, humanitarian negotiations can often be a necessity.
These negotiations are carried out according to humanitarian principles and have a unique and strong foundation in international law and policy that many other forms of engagement do not enjoy. For these and other reasons humanitarian negotiations occupy a distinctive ‘space’ among other forms of engagement.
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