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Private Security Providers play an important role in protecting state and non-state clients engaged in relief, recovery and reconstruction efforts; commercial business operations; diplomacy; and military activity. This guide is particularly applicable for any type of PSC operating in circumstances…
This guide serves as an introduction to and explanation of the Security Level System. The aim of the Security Level System is to provide an objective description of the security environment of a particular area or location in which the…
This document provides an overview of the Al Nusra Front in Syria.
For over 25 years the Institute of Risk Management has provided leadership and guidance to the emerging risk management profession. This board guidance on risk culture is the IRM’s latest contribution to thought leadership in the field. The paper contains…
A security guide for volunteers: Voluntary service is at the heart of community-building. Volunteering promotes trust and reciprocity. It encourages people to be responsible citizens. Volunteering within National Societies is carried out by people who are committed to the fundamental…
Andrej Zwitter argues in his paper Humanitarian Action, Development and Terrorism (2013) that “terrorism thrives on the suffering of people. Underdevelopment, unemployment, poor governance, and absence of the rule of law in combination with grievances are among the factors that…
This report provides an overview of the terrorist organisation commonly known as ISIS, looking at the make-up of the group, their backers, aims and tracing their activities up until September 2013.
The failure to define al Qaeda properly has confused policy and strategy. This report by Katherine Zimmerman (2013) attempts to outline a framework for a better understanding of the group. More broadly,The Critical Threats Project of the American Enterprise Institute…
The political geography of the Levant is facing its greatest challenge since the national boundaries of the Arab states were established by colonial powers in the aftermath of the First World War. Sectarian violence in Iraq and the civil war…
In the last few years, insecurity for relief workers has become a matter of great concern and a central issue in aid policy debates. Explanation for such a widespread anxiety is the claim that international humanitarian organisations are facing a…