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 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2025-01-01
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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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