CICR believes that it is always possible to contribute positively toward the resolution of entrenched conflicts. In this framework, we are committed to producing tangible and incremental opportunities for dialogue among warring factions without relying on a single intervention strategy. This flexible approach has enabled CICR to attract the human and material resources necessary for many successful interventions. CICR’s experience demonstrates that, even if dialogue ultimately is insufficient to resolve the conflict as a whole at that moment, it still will provide invaluable opportunities for the actors involved to benefit from constructive engagement.
CICR interventions are relationally responsible attempts to address actual needs, interests and experiences as expressed by partners in the conflict. Therefore a diverse array of activities emerges. While eclectic and flexible, these actions are united in terms of motivation, process and intended results. The underlined common motivation is in fact CICR mandate (contributes to the resolution of international deadly conflict). The process is always interactive, participatory, both elicitive and prescriptive, knowledge based and language sensitive. The intended result is a reduction of despair, an enrichment of alternatives, and the empowerment of all dimensions conducive to fair, sustainable, lasting and satisfactory agreements.