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Conflict Resolution
Alba Consec’s range of individually tailored Risk and Conflict
Management Services deliver high quality innovative Business Assurance
solutions designed to meet the unique needs of your company. We not only
present a cost effective alternative to others in the risk management
market, but provide a scope and individuality of client service that
others can only aspire to.
Our quality staff form a unique synergy of competence to offer you a
wealth of knowledge and experience gained from hostile emerging markets,
complex political climates and humanitarian crises world-wide. Together,
they provide complementary knowledge and expertise in political analysis;
diplomacy; conflict mediation; military and humanitarian field operations;
commerce; physical security; as well as field intelligence and analysis.
Alba Consec’s staff will work closely with you to develop and maintain
the vital client - service provider relationship, often found wanting with
the use of ad hoc consultants drawn from pooled labour resources.
Moreover, their broader based backgrounds provide for a better
understanding of many of the wider strategic issues that are so very often
the root cause of conflict and which generate the real security threats.
Formed to provide a tailor made solution to the unique needs of your
company, Alba Consec offers a comprehensive range of services to both
accurately assess the total environment and present realistic and viable
solutions. Whatever your needs may be, Alba Consec will work with you to
provide:
The New World Order
Far from ushering in a ‘New World Order’ of peace and prosperity, the
end of the Cold-war has seen a dramatic rise in the number of violent
intra-state conflicts world-wide. These internal conflicts often occur in
regions of the world where businesses are seeking to exploit new
opportunities. As a result, many of today’s emerging markets are now
characterised by instability, tension and latent animosities if not by
actual armed conflict. But today’s security issues go beyond terrorism and
armed conflict. Organised crime, drugs, trafficking, money-laundering
activities, hi-level government corruption, environmental degradation and
militant activism coupled with in-vogue global issues all conspire to
present a real and growing threat.
The New Economy
The business environment has also changed in the post Cold-war era from
one of gradual change to one of exponential change due to the rapid
development and reliance on the internet and other Information and
Communications Technologies (ICT). Such change is both fundamental and
pervasive affecting all aspects of business, e-commerce, government as
well as our private lives. In this ‘New Economy,’ information has become
universally and instantaneously available to both businesses and
governments. A new global and interconnected economy has developed in
which our dependence on networks and critical cyber infrastructures, near
real-time transactions together with the ‘internet economy’ has given rise
to new threats and vulnerabilities associated with data security and
maintaining customer confidence. In this new paradigm, individuals and
groups from hackers or 'hacktervists' to organised criminals and
terrorists, all have the ability to simultaneously attack multiple sites.
The electronic bit has replaced the bomb as the weapon of the new
paradigm.
Globalisation
Additionally, the forces of globalisation have forever changed the
international marketplace. Not only has the market place shrunk with the
effects and ramifications of an incident in one corner of the globe now
instantly being felt in another, but as companies seek to secure their
position the need for overseas operations and foreign partners increases.
As a result, companies operating or seeking to operate in these complex
and sensitive political climates are often finding themselves more and
more at risk.
New Terrorism
This situation has been further exacerbated by the events and
subsequent ramifications of 11th September 2001. The advent of ‘New
Terrorism,’ with the increased use of suicide bombers and the threat of
cyber and financial attacks have all given rise to new vulnerabilities. In
such an uncertain world, companies will wish to exercise ‘enhanced due
diligence’ and ensure that their people and operations abroad are both
secure and sustainable
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