Building trust over time. --- Establishing and maintaining trust is a journey. Often starting off with small agreement, seeing the other side stands by their part of the deal, and then slowly increasing stakes.

An ICRC delegate one explained to me how a simple program like body repatriation builds this trust with non-state armed actors. They deliver on this basic program, which establishes trust for more substantial "partnerships".

Source author: Joe Cropp joe.cropp@ifrc.org