Interview with Michael O‘Neill, Chair of INSSA INSSA Insights

Key Takeaways:
0:00 Intro
1:10 Michael talks about how he got into the international development and humanitarian aid sector and specifically the NGO security space
3:49 Michael shares an incident that occurred in his career in international development and how it influenced his path to NGO security
9:30 Michael explains if the way that NGOs practice security management has matured or if it’s still languishing
12:31 Michael talks about what differentiates the security management in the NGO sector from other sectors 
15:25 Michael talks about the current state of security management around the world, within the NGO community and how mature it is 
18:31 Michael talks about the acceptance of the importance of security risk management in the NGO sector both nonprofits and for-profit
22:51 Michael talks about the importance of having information analysis and analysts and how it will help security risk management mature 
26:13 Michael explains if organizations are integrating the security risk management personnel with analysts and implementers in the program designs 
28:55 Michael talks about the study they did on acceptance, the core principles of acceptance, and what organizations should do to implement acceptance 
31:46 Michael talks more about the acceptance model that they did during their study and the people that they did it with 
39:06 Michael talks about World Humanitarian Day and the significance it has on the NGO’s security or humanitarian security
42:55 Michael talks about the current biggest threats to aid workers in terms of security operations and what they should do
47:09 Michael shares his thought on the future threats that might impact the security operations of the security agencies 
49:21 Michael talks about the most important lessons that he has learned over the course of his career in NGO security management
54:13 Michael shares some of the resources that he feels are essential for people who are interested in NGO security risk management 
56:07 Michael talks about INSSA, what it is and what was the force or the need that led to the formation of INSSA and its initiatives 
1:04:42 Michael talks about the future of INSSA and where he is hoping to see it go 
1:05:47 Michael talks about where he sees the NGO security sector going as a whole

Books Mentioned: 
Operational Security Management in Violent Environments: https://books.google.com/books/about/Operational_Security_Management_in_Viole.html?id=Bb6FAAAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description 
Never Split the Difference: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26156469-never-split-the-difference 
Player Piano: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9597.Player_Piano 

Shows Mentioned:
http://acceptanceresearch.org/ 
Peace Corp: https://www.peacecorps.gov/ 
GIZ: https://www.giz.de/en/html/index.html 
Save the Children: https://www.savethechildren.net/ 
OFDA: https://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/organization/bureaus/bureau-democracy-conflict-and-humanitarian-assistance/office-us 
ICRC: https://www.icrc.org/en 
GPRA: a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/omb/mgmt-gpra/index"...