Pascal Daudin is currently Senior Policy Adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy Division. After a short career as free-lance journalist, he joined the ICRC in 1986 and has occupied various positions of line manager, protection expert, HR policies as well as humanitarian action specialist. During this term with the organization he was deployed in major conflict situations such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, Caucasus, Saudi Arabia and the Balkans. The ideas expressed in this blog post are the author’s own.