ABSTRACT
The literature on cooperation in international relations in general (see, for example, Booth and Wheeler 2008; Ziegler 2013; and the literature on regimes, such as Keohane 1984) and on cooperation among NGOs in particular (Saab et al. 2013; Seybolt 2009; Stephenson 2005) has stressed that trust is an important precondition for cooperation, especially with respect to security issues: ‘trust … is at the heart of security collaboration’ (Bickley 2006, 18). This was confirmed by the interviewees. As one interviewee stated:
Basically there's only one word that has to do with everything: that is trust. Everything is about trust and the question is basically not so much how can you share [information], … I mean it is possible to share everything from a technical point of view. But [people] have to trust each other to do that. 1
