Recover Better, Recover Stronger, Recover Together: key takeaways from the UN Global Compact 20th Anniversary Leaders Summit
The UN Global Compact (UNGC) is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. With over 10,000 companies involved, the UNGC is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world. Trilateral Research is proud to have become a […]
“Failing to plan for the day after”: planning for civilian protection in Libya
In early 2011, Libya descended into chaos and violence. In March the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1973 authorising “all necessary measures” to protect Libyan civilians. At the end of March, NATO began military operations to implement Resolution 1973 under what became known as Operation Unified Protector (OUP). Within a matter of months, Libyan government […]
Cyber Threats and Pandemics: Tackling Risk Through Shared Responsibility
In this interview with Philipp Amann, Head of Strategy of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre, we discuss an approach to organisational cybersecurity and cyber resilience that underlines, among other things, the need for prevention and awareness as well as a holistic view of the threats and challenges.
What is it like to participate in a Witness Seminar in the time of COVID-19?
This article outlines the meaning and structure of a “witness seminar”, with a focus on the importance of privacy and data protection, in particular related to the technical solutions developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Analysing the impact of COVID-19 on gender, peace and security
In April 2020, we published a post titled ‘Why is human security important?’ to kick-off a series of blog posts for Project HAMOC exploring the importance of this concept for planning and analysis of the human environment in conflict and crisis situations. In the current blog, authors, Olivia Iannelli and Hayley Watson look at the […]
Why is human security important?
Never has the concept of human security been as important as it is today as the world responds to the global pandemic COVID-19, which broke out in Wuhan, China in December 2019. On the day of writing, 7 April 2020, the World Health Organisation has reported 1,247,244 confirmed cases, 69,213 confirmed deaths and 211 countries or […]
A Knowledge Discovery tool to analyse darknet advertisements – Join COPKIT’s webinar
We are delighted to announce that on 22 April 2020 COPKIT will be having its second public webinar to introduce COPKIT’s Knowledge Discovery tool. In this webinar, our partners from the University of Granada will provide an overview of the fundamental aspects of the Knowledge Discovery tool, explaining how it can be employed to acquire new knowledge from […]
The response to COVID-19: a comparison of experiences in Europe
On Monday 9th March 2020 the NO-FEAR partners hosted a webinar discussing the response to the COVID-19 outbreak across four different countries – Italy, Spain, Israel and France. Approximately 500 participants from across the world had the opportunity to listen about differences in diagnosis, treatment, acute patient care and emergency response based on the experience of […]
Desperate times call for desperate measures? Understanding the privacy risks of digital-contact tracing in the COVID-19 fight
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, a number of Asian countries initially experiencing the outbreak have relied upon technological tools (apps, tracking technologies, and big data analytics) to mitigate and contain the spread of the virus. Now, similar approaches are being developed in Europe and North America where – depending on how privacy is embedded in […]
Better communication for pandemics at all scales
While easy to make commentary about it, information remains a major challenge during pandemics. In part, this is because when a new disease emerges, authorities are almost automatically one step behind at the start, playing catch up for months, trying to identify and understand the unknown. In part, this is because each pandemic seems to […]
