Security challenges in humanitarian assistance - Janos Besenyo - L'harmattan - broché - Essai

Political, social and climatic changes in the world are accelerating, resulting in man-made industrial disasters, wars, natural disasters, epidemic emergencies and population migrations. As societies are ageing in many countries around the world, there are more and more people in need of social, health and humanitarian assistance.Humanitarian aid in a natural disaster or war zone is not a harmless mission, not forgetting and underestimating the security risks for those who carry out social tasks in the “peaceful and normal” daily life. When performing a task in such a high-risk area, the primary goal of the aid worker cannot be other than to stay alive, because only then will they be able to carry out their mission of helping others. Indeed, would you know what to do in a case of emergency at home or abroad? Do we know what to do when an unexpected event occurs? Can we recognize and manage the security risks realistically?This book will help you to develop or further improve your secur