Welcome
Welcome to the Global Intelligence System (GIS), brought to you by G4S Risk Consulting. GIS is a subscription-based online knowledge portal providing geopolitical intelligence on current threats and hazards worldwide. GIS provides subscribers with ongoing updates on security incidents with analysis as well as travel risk advisories and country overviews in order to track and monitor risk through a unique, graphical and quantitative security risk rating methodology.
The ability to more efficiently and effectively monitor risk is proving to be a fundamental requirement in helping to ensure corporations are kept informed of security-related events and incidents that may impact business decisions or present a threat to their operations and personnel across the world. By being better informed, it enables corporations to respond quicker and more effectively in protecting their interests and assets in times of crisis thereby making them more resilient and by so doing provide a competitive advantage.
GIS reports, analyses and forecasts risk, utilising the unique and unparalleled global footprint of G4S' operations worldwide that extends beyond 210 countries and territories, in addition to its global network of associates and affiliates, all of which facilitate more real-time ground-based reporting.
Selected Strategic Forecasts, produced by the GIS team of analysts
Global Forecast H2 2019
Welcome the H2 edition of the 2019 G4S Global Forecast.
Heightened geopolitical risk has become the new normal during 2019, with uncertainty around foreign and domestic policy and regional security developments impacting financial markets and driving business sentiment.
Some key security and political trends analysed in the forecast are:
- A resurgent Islamic State in Iraq
- Sudan in transition
- Democratic engagement in Central and Eastern Europe
- Taliban influence in Afghanistan
- Unrest in Hong Kong
- Venezuela's economic and political crisis
Researched and written by the Intelligence and Advisory Services team, the forecast is tailored for risk-aware businesses seeking to balance aspirations for growth with corporate responsibility in a rapidly evolving geopolitical and economic landscape.
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Insecurity in the Sahel
The Sahel is a complex and diverse region both for its rich cultural and ethnic make-up and for the political, security, economic, social and environmental challenges it faces. It is characterised by a multitude of violent non-state actors with jihadi, political and criminal agendas. The high level of insecurity in the region prompted an influx of foreign assistance. This has mostly taken the form of military intervention and capacity building for state apparatuses and joint international forces, and has driven focus away from the structural drivers of extremism, which tend to be socio-economic and political.
G4S Risk Consulting examines the broader socio-economic, political and environmental considerations impacting security. In doing so, we discuss country-specific case studies – Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso – highlighting different dimensions: drug trafficking, inter-communal violence, illegal migration and jihadi spill-over.
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