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This brief guiding document offers an analysis of ‘herd mentality’ following terror attacks, and offers best practice principles and guidelines to improve personal security. The document suggests that executive protection operators should understand that, far from there being safety in…
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…
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’.
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…
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…
This article by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (2019) explores the process of legalization as a shift in the way humanitarian actors are held accountable. Through an account of the groundbreaking Steven Patrick Dennis v. the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) case litigated…
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.
This document explores some of the issues that INGOs and NNGOs in South Sudan face with regards to funding changes from UN agencies. It explores compliance with South Sudan’s laws, cost efficiency and reporting requirements, transparency, safety, and quality, before…
In this episode of the Humanitarian Incidents podcast we speak to Frances Nobes, Security Operations and Research Analyst for World Vision International. Frances discusses what we mean when we talk about ‘analysis’, why it matters, and the role incident information can play in…
In this episode of the Humanitarian Incidents podcast we speak to Nour Kossaibany, security lead at the International Rescue Committee. Nour explains why keeping national staff and local partner staff safe is critical for organisations and effective programme delivery. She discusses how…