Table 3: Establishing the threat level for indirect attacks

Level of threat for indirect attaks

Note: PA = potential attackers

Factor: Your knowledge of conflict areas Low Threat: Good. Medium Threat: Approximate. High Threat: You know very little about where conflict zones are located.

Factor: Distance to conflict areas Low Threat: Your work is far away from these areas. Medium Threat: Your work is close to these areas and you occassionally enter them. High Threat: Your work is carried out in combat zones.

Factor: Movement of conflict areas Low Threat: Conflicts are static, or change slowly and verifiably. Medium Threat: They change relatively often. High Threat: They change continually, making them unpredicatable.

Factor: Your knowledge of location of areas with landmines Low Threat: You have good knowledge, or there are no mined areas. Medium Threat: Approximate knowledge. High Threat: Unknown.

Factor: Distance between your workplace and areas with landmines Low Threat: Your work takes place far away from these areas, or there are none. Medium Threat: Your work is close to these areas and you occassionally enter them. High Threat: Your work takes place in mined areas.

Factor: Combat tactics and arms Low Threat: Discriminate. Medium Threat: Discriminate, with occassional use of artillery, ambushes and snippers. High Threat: Indiscriminate - bombardment, heavy artillery, terrorist or bomb attacks. Example of an assessment of the threat level for indirect attacks:

In this area, you are familiar with the combat zones, which change slowly and verifiably. Your work is close to the areas where the fighting takes place and you occasionally visit or stay in the combat zones. You are not close to mined areas. The combat tactics used are discriminate and therefore do not affect civilians very often. Work in this zone carries a low level of risk of indirect attack.