I had a solid few hours today with a couple of the advocates here working on Darfur. I thought I’d share the way one of them conveyed his point about locally contextual approaches to advocacy:
“If I tell you that salt cleans your teeth, but you tell me that in your village salt is very bad for your health, then when I come to your village it is probably a bad idea to eat salt, even though in my village it is a good idea to clean your teeth with it.”
With much gratitude to Dr Salim, I am spending tomorrow/next week at the AU speaking with people who were involved in the original N’Djamena Humanitarian Ceasefire, AMIS in all its carnations and the DPA . . . should be an interesting time ahead.
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