I believe you have a personal experience that drove you to focus on providing updates on security incidents? On 08 May 2018, I was walking home from work, at that time as the president’s advisor on…
To mark this year’s pride month, GISF aimed to examine the specific risks faced by LGBTQIA+ colleagues in the humanitarian sector and how to make humanitarian security more inclusive. To explore this issue, we spoke with Reylynne Dela…
Keeping up with the technological innovations and new services in the humanitarian security risk management (SRM) sector has been identified as a key priority by our members given the proliferation of new products that offer immediate solutions cutting…
Humanitarian space is constantly being negotiated, and today's security managers are having to make ethical considerations as they work to keep aid workers safe. In part two of this blog series, based on Hugo Slim's keynote speech at the 2021 HNPW session: 'SRM in the Changing Global and Humanitarian Context', Slim explores the evolution of the humanitarian footprint, and the ethics of security risk management.
When we’re speaking about humanitarian security risk management, we’re talking about keeping people safe when they’re engaged in humanitarian action around the world. It’s important, therefore, to start by remembering that in 2019, 125 humanitarian workers were killed. 404…
Security training over the past 20+ years has mostly followed linear teaching methods that rely on the provision of information and/or technical tools as a means to appeal to logic and learning. While it may be effective, it can…
Context and complexity: Key findings Our study examined current issues, trends, questions, positive and negative impacts, and challenges raised in relation to faith and security. We did this through sixty-one interviews with fourteen national offices,…
When the Taliban ramped up their offensive in May 2021, there were few indicators that it would lead to an immediate collapse of the Western-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the multi-trillion-dollar project of the last twenty years. Unlike past…
This year’s International Women’s Day seeks to ‘break the bias’, moving past biases and stereotypes to create a world that recognises, involves and enables women to succeed. This is critical for effective humanitarian security risk management. Men and…
Humanitarian programmes have been forced to slow down and adjust to staff and resource shortages while adhering to COVID-19 guidelines. Balancing Duty of Care procedures and differing lockdown measures across international, national, and regional contexts has proven difficult for…