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    • NOW ONLINE - Issue 47 of the Humanitarian Exchange magazine, guest edited by Chris Finucane and Maarten Merkelbach from the Security Management Initiative, focuses on humanitarian safety and security. The articles in this issue are intended to encourage critical thinking on risk management issues and, in some cases, challenge existing security management norms.

    • Issue 48 of the Humanitarian Exchange magazine, to be published in September 2010, will explore lessons learned from the international humanitarian response to the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

    • The revised edition of the ‘Good Practice Review: Operational Security Management in Dangerous Environments’ will be published in September 2010. This publication will also be available in French and Spanish towards the end of the year.

Latest Exchange Magazine

Protesters taunt police during a protest against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election in Nairobi January 3, 2008. Kenyan police used teargas and water cannons against several hundred anti-government protesters chanting "Peace" as they sat down on a Nairobi highway on Thursday, blocking a major roundabout, a Reuters witness said. REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA)

Issue 47

Including...

Key security messages for NGO field staff: what and how do NGOs communicate about security in their policies and guidelines?

The six ‘Ws’ of security policy-making

Latest papers and reviews

Children watch as U.N. peacekeepers in armoured personnel carriers (APC) patrol a key road linking Goma and Rutshuru in eastern Congo, October 28, 2008. Rebel forces advanced on Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma on Wednesday, threatening to overwhelm government troops and a 17,000-strong U.N. force deployed to halt a return to all-out war. Picture taken October 28, 2008. REUTERS/Hereward Holland (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)

Network Paper 68

Safety with dignity: Integrating community based protection into humanitarian programming

Network Paper 61

Salud pública en poblaciones afectadas por crisis: una guía práctica para quienes toman las decisiones

Network Paper 67

Evidence-based decision-making in humanitarian assistance

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