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This document seeks to lay down a foundation for CBM as it establishes and builds upon its existing approaches to health, safety and security. The purpose of this policy is to increase the health, safety and security awareness of all…
This document lays out GISF’s strategic direction in the coming years, as a result of a 2-day workshop with the secretariat and the steering group participating.
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 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…
Trainer’s programme for trans awareness training, developed with Gendered Intelligence for Raleigh International. The overall objectives of the training programme are: to communicate commitment towards trans inclusion; staff should be confident and comfortable in understand what terms that people might…
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…