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      Kidnap and Ransom Insight and Focus Article: The Militant Threat in The Sahel

      Context Analysis, NGO Security Management, Private Security Providers

      This report covers global kidnapping trends and incidents for the months of November and December 2018, as well as January 2019. The report also includes a global overview of piracy threat and of cyber security threat, as well as a…

      Report 2019 English

      Lessons for Your Travel Risk Management From a Kidnap

      Context Analysis, Legal Obligations, NGO Security Management, Private Security Providers

      This document (2019) describes a kidnapping incident involving an Italian construction company in Libya, which was brought to court in 2015, and outlines the lessons learned from the case for travel security management.

      Guidance Material 2019 English

      The Tough Stuff: Managing Menstruation

      Gender, NGO Security Management, Policy Guidance, Safety

      The Tough Stuff (2018) is a series of guidance notes put out by CARE Canada’s Safety and Security Unit that addresses some of the uncomfortable and important safety and security issues facing our staff. This document covers both organisational measures…

      Guidance Material 2019 English

      International Emergency Contact List

      NGO Security Management

      This document provides a list of contact details for consular departments, ministries of foreign affairs, and crisis units around the world. Many of these numbers are for emergency use only and anyone seeking to validate these details or make non-urgent…

      Other 2019 English

      Bored to Death: The psychological threats to situational awareness

      NGO Security Management

      This document (2017) analyses the psychological threats (denial and distraction) to situational awareness, which it defines as ‘a building block of personal and collective security, useful in protecting against all types of threats, to include criminal, terrorist and intelligence threats’.

      Other 2019 English

      Saving Guatemala’s Fight Against Crime and Impunity

      Acceptance, Context Analysis, Human Rights, Legal Obligations

      This report (2018) delivers research by International Crisis Group, which has for the first time quantified the positive impact of the UN’s Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). The findings show how CICIG’s justice reform activities since 2007 helped contribute…

      Report 2019 English

      Eight Principles for Building Trust Through Feedback

      Acceptance, Gender, Humanitarian Programmatic Issues, NGO Security Management, Policy Guidance

      This paper (2018) has been put together by the Bond Feedback and Accountability Learning Group (FALG) and sets out best practice principles for developing an accountable feedback mechanism capable of building a safe environment in which safeguarding concerns, within the…

      Report 2019 English

      VoIP Security and Privacy Threat Taxonomy

      Equipment, NGO Security Management

      This taxonomy (2005) defines the many potential security threats to voice over IP (VoIP) deployments, services, and end users. The overall goal is to help drive VoIP security awareness with the press, industry, and public. In particular this taxonomy provides…

      Guidance Material 2019 English

      Orthodoxy and innovation: organizational crisis readiness, response and recovery

      NGO Security Management, Policy Guidance, Private Security Providers

      This report (2018) is a guiding document from Control Risks. It aims to assist organisations and companies in improving their crisis readiness, response and recovery. The authors explore the basic principles organisations must adhere to in navigating today’s complex risk ecosystem.

      Guidance Material 2019 English