Culture and dialogue --- Reading about the Indaba, I read that it is composed mostly of an assembly of men. I am wondering thus, how to incorporate cultural differences into the negotiation - should we ensure that only men participate also from our side, in order to comply with the culture in which we are evolving? Or is it our role to try to push the cultural barriers as long as the dialogue is not breached? And when it come to the vulnerabilities, how can we ensure that a certain category of vulnerability is not left aside, when we are due to have interlocutors that might not be open to hear or act towards it? I was thinking here i.e. about GBV, that an assembly of men might not be prompt to discuss.

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