respond to GBV, these engagements have the potential to actualise an effective pathway to help-seeking. Based on this, the paper examines the critical role of refugee leaders and service providers in the access and denial of GBV help-seeking by providing a timely example of how the social networks built within the context of conflict and displacement matter in taking action on gendered violence. Harnessing Auxiliary Voices Before moving further
relationships are picked up in the second research article, by Lisette Robles, on the help-seeking behaviour of refugee and gender-based violence (GBV) survivors. Robles draws on interviews with refugee leaders and service providers to unpack why GBV support services are so often underutilised. Drawing on a social capital framework, she highlights the importance of trust and social networks which refugee survivors use to access and navigate different forms of assistance. Her work demonstrates an important
a.m., registration started at 2 a.m. as the humanitarians entered the camp and told refugee leaders to wake everyone up and have them report for registration, on the assumption that ‘everyone who belongs in the camp sleeps there’. The humanitarians snapped white wristbands on to all those present and everyone who had one was registered for aid the next day. 7 UNHCR has protocols for this, explaining that ‘Refugees will be informed the day before of the timing of the fixing