Humanitarian safety & security: Risks, entanglements and protection

Iida-Maria Tammi will delve into her recently released research into the risks posed by insecurity for humanitarian actors in conflict environments. Her work looks into the case study of emergency relief workers in the Syrian Civil War (2012-2020) and discusses how governance structures (‘entanglements’) can affect the safety of people working in a humanitarian context.

Speakers

Iida-Maria Tammi is a doctoral researchers at the University of Helsinki. She explores the nexus between international humanitarianism, security, and violence with a particular interest in the ways that the everyday practices of aid work not only resist, but also enable and possibly even produce physical and epistemic violence.

Dr Rodrigo Mena is Deputy Director of the Humanitarian Studies Centre at ISS and the coordinator of the Safety & Security Research Initiative. He works on research safety and security, understanding the everyday risks and practices of researchers. He is the author of the 'Guidelines for Fieldwork Research' and the course leader of the 'Safety and Security for Fieldworkers' training course.