Acceptance Strategies in Conflict - Ashley Jackson
Channel: GSDRC
Date: 01/06/2015

This video accompanies the GSDRC Professional Development Reading pack on Acceptance Strategies in Conflict, available at: http://www.gsdrc.org/professional-dev/acceptance-strategies-in-conflict/

Acceptance is a risk management strategy based on reducing threats to aid workers by reducing the motivation of others to harm them. The thinking is that if aid work is viewed positively, it will generate goodwill towards aid workers and allow them to work safely.

Ashley Jackson is a Research Associate with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) with extensive experience in conflict and complex emergencies. At ODI, she has led research on humanitarian negotiations with non-state actors including fieldwork with the Taliban, Al-Shabaab and other armed groups. She has also published widely on humanitarian action in Afghanistan, where she worked with the UN and Oxfam, and served as an advisor to the UK Parliament. Prior to this, she worked the Red Cross in southeast Asia on disaster and conflict recovery programming.