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Chapter 1.5: Preventing and reacting to attacks

Attacks against human rights defenders
Who, then, is a danger to defenders?
Establishing the feasibility of an attack
Table 1: Establishing the threat level of direct attacks (targeting)
Table 2: Establishing the threat level for crime
Table 3: Establishing the threat level for indirect attacks
Preventing a possible direct attack
Table 4: Preventing a direct attack - different protection outcomes
Surveillance and counter-surveillance
Reacting to attacks

Index of Chapters

Introduction: A security and protection manual for human rights defenders at risk
Chapter 1.1: Making informed decisions about security and protection
Chapter 1.2: Assessing risk: threats, vulnerabilities and capacities
Chapter 1.3: Understanding and assessing threats
Chapter 1.4: Security Incidents: definition and analysis
Chapter 1.5: Preventing and reacting to attacks
Chapter 1.6: Preparing a security strategy and plan.
Chapter 1.7: Preparing a security plan
Chapter 1.8: Improving security at work and at home
Chapter 1.9: Security for woman human rights defenders
Chapter 1.10: Security in armed conflic areas
Chapter 1.11: Security in areas of armed conflict.
Chapter 1.12: Security, communications and information technology
Chapter 2.1: Assesing organisational security performance:
Chapter 2.2: Making sure security rules and procedures are
Chapter 2.2: Making sure security rules and procedures are followed
Chapter 2.3: Managing organisational shift towards an improved security policy.
Chapter 3.1: How to reduce the risks connected to an office search
Chapter 3.2: Secure management of information
Chapter 3.3: Detention, arrest, abduction or kidnapping
Chapter 3.4: Security and free time
Anexos

Chapter 1.5: Preventing and reacting to attacks

Establishing the feasibility of an attack

by Enrique Eguren and Marie Caraj

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To find out how likely an attack is to happen, you need to analyse the relevant factors involved. To establish what those factors are, it is useful to differentiate between different kinds of attacks, i.e. common crime, indirect attacks (being in the wrong place at the wrong time) and direct attacks (targeting), using the three tables on the following pages.

Table 1: Establishing the threat level of direct attacks (targeting)
Table 2: Establishing the threat level for crime
Table 3: Establishing the threat level for indirect attacks

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Chapter 1.5: Preventing and reacting to attacks

Establishing the feasibility of an attack