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SendDifferent defenders and organisations may estimate different levels of risk. What is unacceptable for some defenders can be acceptable for others, and the same can be said for people within the same organisation. Rather than discussing what “must” be done or whether you are prepared for going ahead with it, people’s different thresholds of risk must be addressed: You must find a commonly acceptable threshold for all members of the group.
That said, there are different ways of dealing with risk:
- You can accept the risk as it stands, because you feel able to live with it;
- You can reduce the risk, by working on threats, vulnerabilities and capacities;
- You can share the risk, by undertaking joint actions with other defenders to make potential threats to one defender or organisation less effective;
- You can choose to avoid the risk, by changing or stopping your activities or changing approach to reduce potential threats;
- You can ignore the risk, by looking the other way. Needless to say, this is not the best option.
