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Jun 2021
25m 43s

Episode 6: The Operational Edge

Humanitarian Diplomacy
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders translates humanitarian diplomacy into humanitarian representation. But what does it mean? Listen to a new episode with Doctoral Researcher Salla Turunen and Reshma Adatia, who is the Head of Humanitarian Diplomacy and International Operations Coordinator at MSF. Discover also the operational focus of the organization and MSF’s public engagement in calling a spade a spade.

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