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We are excited to release the second episode of GISF’s new Inclusive Security Podcast Series. This episode focuses on operationalising inclusivity featuring guest speaker Araba Cole from the International Rescue Committee (IRC). This series explores inclusivity through the lens of…
On 5 November, GISF held the Behind the Scenes: Safe Humanitarian Action webinar, an event for students, faculty, and young professionals focused on international development and humanitarian assistance studies. Are you interested in how humanitarians deliver aid to those in…
Insecurity Insight have released their flash analysis and prediction on the developing situation in Ethiopia. You can download the report on the left.
Historically, the most dangerous operational settings for aid workers have been places where armed conflict is occurring. Most of the aid worker casualties (fatalities, serious injuries and abductions) result from attacks by non-state armed actors engaged in asymmetric conflict and…
Last year, GISF published Module 14 of GISF’s Security To Go Risk Management Toolkit, Contracting Private Security Providers, in collaboration with ICoCA. So what impact has the toolkit had and why do humanitarian NGOs’ contracting of private security providers continue…
Last year, GISF published Module 14 of GISF’s Security To Go Risk Management Toolkit, Contracting Private Security Providers, in collaboration with ICoCA. So what impact has the toolkit had and why do humanitarian NGOs’ contracting of private security providers continue…
Jason joined GISF in December 2020 as Deputy Director for the Americas and since then has been helping NGOs deal with the fall out of the pandemic. Prior to that he worked for World Vision as a Global Security Advisor…
The advice below is designed to be adaptive and generic to be incorporated in security plans across different contexts. INTRODUCTION Urban armed groups are defined as “…small, geographically isolated groups comprised of (mostly) young men in the urban popular zones…”…
Acceptance is one of the three pillars of humanitarian organisations’ security risk management (SRM) strategies to ensure both access to populations affected by conflict and disaster and the safety of their staff and programmes. Acceptance is ‘founded on effective relationships…
Insecurity Insight have released their flash analysis and prediction on the developing situation in Afghanistan. You can download the report on the left.