Tacit engagement in humanitarian action: making sense of silence and secrecy in humanitarian negotiations

Abstract Secrecy and silence regarding the compromises and trade-offs made by frontline humanitarians in order to achieve access, protection, efficiency and legitimacy are a widely observable but underconceptualized phenomenon in humanitarian action. As a form of “tacit engagement”, it allows humani...

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Main Authors: Ayse Bala Akal, Kristina Roepstorff, Kristoffer Lidén
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2025-01-01
Series:Journal of International Humanitarian Action
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-024-00161-w
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