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Diversity in Security Risk Management: Creating Change from the Inside Out
After submitting an application and going through an interview early this year, I was accepted as a member of the new Diversity and Social Inclusion Sub Committee of OSAC’s (Overseas Security Advisory Council) Women in Security Committee. Wonderful news, but also quite scary. I don’t feel myself to be particularly diverse. I’m a woman, yes,…
INGO safety and security collaboration and networks | Today’s challenges and opportunities for tomorrow
Over the past twenty years there has been a progressive and positive professionalization of the safety and security function of aid organizations, partly as the contexts and operational environment we program in have changed and demanded it, though also as a result of our experiences and peer learning through our engagement in networks and collaborative…
A Good Mechanic Never Blames his Tools
Chris Williams’s thought-provoking posting No Convenient Answer | When is there too much risk? got me thinking about the difficulties of using security risk management (SRM) in the humanitarian sector and how management approaches are often thought to be biased toward suspension or withdrawal. I agree with the central theme that an organisation that knows…
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