A good read: "Providing Aid in Insecure Environments- Trends in Policy and Operation". We tend to hear more about aid workers being harmed working in emergencies, and responding to this organizations have changed their approach to staff security and their aid operations. But due to a lack of empirical evidence in the past, the authors examine trends in policy and operations over the last decade, in particular how perceptions of increased risk to aid organisations have influenced operational security measures and have led to increasing reliance on local aid actors and national staff.Click here to read document in full.