“Building trust is everything”: How to reach the person across the table from you?

How do you prepare for an engagement with an important or difficult interlocutor? In this episode of Advocating for Protection, Thaer Allaw, the operations manager for Asia and the Middle East North Africa region at the ⁠CCHN⁠, and Major Stuart Thomas, a commander of Canada's high readiness civil military cooperation capability, share with Matt Byrne (⁠ProCap⁠) tips on how to prepare for such engagements and what humanitarians can do to have more successful outcomes. You can find CCHN resources for frontline negotiations ⁠here⁠. The Global Protection Cluster ⁠Protection Advocacy Toolkit. ⁠ The transcript of this episode is available in French and Spanish.