Deluded RCRCM? --- Is there a sense that, in the balance of these three fundaments of persuasion, RCRCM is the only one to over-prioritise its definition of 'ethos'? We are slightly self agrandizing about our credibility sometimes - credibility to whom? Governments and authorities certainly, but sometimes not to communities -the NS auxiliary role gets tricky when in an authoritarian context, the Myanmar NS is an example of this, they've fallen under heavy criticism for their perceived collaboration with the Junta which has to be maintained to attain that credibility.

Source author: Etienne Berges etienneberges@redcross.org.uk