HD and negotiation --- Thanks Gerhard, Marwa and KW. It's important to see HD as aiming at negotiation towards and including a result of humanitarian value. Some of the writing, and to some extent I think this is true for the good article noted by KW, seems to me to be about negotiation itself, not about results. This is why we always say that HD does not end with an agreement being signed. It includes work to ensure implementation. If a government negotiates and even signs an agreement this should be followed up, night and day sometimes, until implementation takes place successfully.

Source author: Christopher Lamb christopher.lamb17@gmail.com