RISK RESOURCES 

FREQUENTLY USED RESOURCES

• Customizable Risk Assessment Plan (Excel) (New! 02.2024)

• Comprehensive Risk Book List (updated 02.29.24)

• Global Risk Resources List (03.05.2024) Security book list added.

• RAM Action Guide (02.2024)

• Choosing to Stay

• Thresholds for Departure/Benchmarks for Return

• RAM Flow Chart

ARTICLES

• Missiological Risk from a Field Perspective

  • بسبب الثقافات المختلفة من منظور ميداني 

  • O Risco Intercultural Sob a Perspectiva do Campo

  • Riesgo Misionolgico Desde Una Perspectiva de Equipo

• Team and Sending Organization Case Study - 2017

• Toward a Theology of Risk for the 21st Century

GENERAL RISK RESOURCES

• Customizable Risk Assessment Plan (Excel)

• Assessment Grid Template 

• Bow Tie Template

• Cross-Cultural Stress Inventory

• Programmable Excel Spreadsheet  Graph risk probability in 4 areas: Severity, Frequency, Demographic Proximity and Geographic Proximity

• Triple A Method Sheet  - How to engage in a caring conversation

ONLINE SECURITY TRAINING AND RISK MANAGEMENT

• Where to find Security Analysis in High-Risk Situations

• Short-Term Teams and Security Analysis

• What's in the Box: Develop Your SLS (short legitimate statement)

• Principles of Risk Management 

• Surviving Bombs

• When Bombs Go Off

• Online security training.

• Signal: The Best Secure App

• Effective Communication in Risk 

• When You Have a Gun Pointed At Your Head

• Asking the Goat Herders

• Cultivating Ritualized Habits of Calm Endurance

• AI Security and Risk Management

• Risk Assessment and Mitigation is For Everyone 

• Evaluating the Threat Chatter 

• Tracking Terrorism

• Know Thy Enemy: Global Terrorist Groups

• Establishing Order Out of Chaos

• Introduction to Situational Awareness

• Security is an Illusion 

MEMBER CARE AND RISK (See Theology of Risk page for Bible Stories)

• Movie:  Of God's and Men (Amazon rental)

• The Subtle Influence of Enshallah

• Christianized Purdah

• Serving Caviar When They Needed Chicken Pot Pie

• Kayla Mueller’s Response While in ISIS Captivity

• What Will Cause You To Panic?

• Take Two Verses and Call Me In The Morning

• What Perseverance Through Crisis Does Not Look Like

• Are We A Reef Or A Harbor?

• How to Write a Theology of Risk Statement  

  RISK AND DECISION MAKING 

• Stages of Differentiation

• Emotional Maturity in Risk

• Emotional Immaturity in Risk

• How to Respond to Emotionally Immature People in Risk

• Blended Threats Against the Aid Worker

RISK ANALYSIS WEBSITES

• Aid Worker Security Database 

• Country Risk Analysis and Risk Ratings 

• Global Inter-Agency Security Forum

• InterAction 

• Terrorism Tracker

• International NGO Safety Organization (INSO)

• Relief Web

• Site Intel Group

• Counter Extremism Project

• Critical Threats

• Concilium

• World Economic Forum Risk Trends Report (2024)

DARK HUMOR

Terrorist & Suicide Bomber Jokes

What To Pray For If the Taliban Ever Detain Anna Hampton

Taliban Jokes

RESOURCES FOR EQUIPPING PARENTS TO MORE EFFECTIVELY GUIDE THEIR CHILDREN LIVING IN RISK  

The following resources have been put together by a real mom who has and is guiding her children through risk at various stages of child development. The first document has had extensive input from parents across the CAME region.

The additional eight documents have been selected with the following values: a lot of white space (i.e. not wordy, scholarly, and practical for parents in risk); with a variety of styles and situations (home and classroom); and integrated and holistic. Some of the documents are repetitious, but in a different style, so use whatever works for your child in your risk situation. 

Disclaimer: These combined resources do NOT replace clinical assessment, and you are highly encouraged to have your children clinically assessed on home leave if you have been living in/near a war zone or experienced trauma during your past term to make sure you’ve done everything possible for them to process trauma. 

Lay Equipping of Parents - v. 04.24.16 - written by real parents who've actually done it!

Eight Additional PDF Documents:

• Children's Reactions and Needs After Disaster

• Development Considerations Concerning Children's Grief

  (Also look at Lauren Well’s boo,k, Unstacking Your Grief Tower. It has some good material in there you can use with children if handled in an age-appropriate way.")

• Feelings Chart

• Helping Children Cope With Disaster

• Helping Children in the Midst of Trauma

• Resilience Doughnut

• Talking to Children About Terrorism and War

• Traumatic Stress in Children and Families