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GISF – Impact of Counter-terrorism Legislation on Humanitarian Operations and Security Risk Management Webcast

In this GISF webcast, Naz Modirzadeh, (Senior Fellow, HLS-Brookings Project on Law and Security, Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement project at Harvard Law School), addresses these questions. She also deals with further practical implications of counter-terrorism measures, with a particular focus on the impact for those involved in security risk management for NGOs.

21 Oct 2014 Blog

New GISF publication on communications technology and security risk management

Communications Technology and Humanitarian Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Risk Management is a new publication by GISF that brings together 17 authors. The 11 articles contained in this publication are dispatches from a new frontline in humanitarian action: the digital frontier.

20 Oct 2014 News

Communications Technology and Humanitarian Delivery: Challenges and opportunities for security risk management

The editors and contributors of this volume are to be congratulated on a practical text that pushes forwards our knowledge and understanding of the virtual space that now surrounds humanitarian operations, and which can have such a physical impact upon…

20 Oct 2014 Resource

Vulnerability Assessment: Training module for NGOs operating in Conflict Zones and High-Crime Areas

This training module by Jonathan T. Dworken examines the ability to understand the most likely threats face in an area, and provide insight into how to reduce the threats. It articulates the link between threats and vulnerability, and list factors…

5 Sep 2014 Resource

Understanding French Policy toward Chad and Sudan? A difficult task

This report by Roland Marchal tries to understand the French policy towards the african countries of Chad and Sudan. It starts by noting the discrepancies during the previous year in french statements regarding those countries, and it then analysis the…

5 Sep 2014 Resource

New Website almost live….

The brand-spanking new GISF website is almost ready to go live! Please give us your feedback by completing this short survey. Your comments will influence how the site looks and how you find the information you need.

2 Sep 2014 News

World Humanitarian Day and ‘Aid in Danger’: a hard-look at violence against aid workers

The aid sector will be ‘celebrating’ the World Humanitarian Day with four level 3 emergencies. On a day that commemorates the bombing of the Canal Hotel in Baghdad we should be asking ourselves, do we need more humanitarian heroes, or do we need better responses (and better security-managed assistance) to humanitarian crises?

18 Aug 2014 Blog

ALNAP’s State of the System report

The State of the Humanitarian System (SOHS) report provides a system level mapping and assessment of international humanitarian assistance. It does this by defining key criteria for evaluating system performance and progress. Every 3 years the performance of the system is reassessed against these criteria and lessons learned are shared.

13 Aug 2014 Blog

Launch of the book ‘Aid in Danger’ – Tuesday 19 August, ODI

GISF and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) are pleased to invite you to the launch of 'Aid in Danger: The Perils and Promise of Humanitarianism' by Larissa Fast—a hard look at violent attacks against aid workers on the frontlines of humanitarian crises.

11 Aug 2014 Blog

Event report: humanitarian action in fragile contexts

On Tuesday 8th July representatives from academia, INGOs, the private sector, journalists and other interested parties gathered at King’s College London to discuss key issues around new actors and the changing humanitarian space and how they will impact on security risk management (SRM). The focal point of the evening was GISF’s report on The Future of Humanitarian Security in Fragile Contexts, written in conjunction with the Humanitarian Futures Programme (HFP) at King’s College.

8 Aug 2014 Blog