A new concept? --- I am wondering how new this concept is. The definition of diplomacy highlighted in the upper paragraph is correct, but defines a type of diplomacy that has been outdated for a very long time, I would argue from before the time of the creation of the multilateral diplomacy post WWII. I think that humanitarian organizations and other actors have been "doing" humanitarian diplomacy since they started exisiting, it was possibly not labelled this was, but it what it is to ensure that the decisions are taken, by the persons empowered to, to operate.

Source author: Fanny Charmey fanny.charmey@eda.admin.ch