SECONDARY TRAUMA AND PTSD Human rights professionals are committed Conducting and maintaining the following analysis to helping others. As such, well-being and will help you create strategies, plans, and shared security are often considered luxuries or selfish agreements to promote security and well-being: objectives, particularly when operating in conflict ›› Explore the political, economic, social, zones. It is essential that both organisations and individuals work to counter this misguided belief. The recognition of the importance of security and well-being fosters resilience and agility, improves the management and mobilisation of resources, and enables preparation for the risks inherent to human rights work. Security relates to physical safety, health, finances, discrimination, privacy, etc. Security threats vary from person to person and group to group. For some their religion or sexual orientation may pose the greatest safety risk. Understanding these concerns from the perspective of everyone involved in your work is the first step in fostering a productive and safe environment. technological, legal, and environmental developments inherent to your work. ›› Identify and analyse concrete safety threats and take the necessary steps to prevent or respond to them. ›› Identify your allies and opponents, their interests and their capacity to empower or act against you. ›› Map and categorise private information and data and take measures to protect it from loss or damage. Offsetting secondary trauma from your data The unprecedented volume of audiovisual content available to today’s human rights researchers has considerable benefits and considerable risks. Research by Eyewitness Media Hub shows that 82% of human rights researchers see distressing imagery sitting at their desks several times a month. 69