Social unrest, strike action and political activism are on the rise across the globe, triggered by inequality and the growing concern that social liberties are being eroded according to a new report by Gallagher.
A new predictive strikes, riots, and civil commotion (SRCC) data model, providing forecasts for thousands of global locations on the potential for damaging civil unrest events to emerge, has been released by Verisk's risk intelligence business, Verisk Maplecroft.
Climate change poses grave threats to countries across Africa, especially to fragile and conflict-affected states according to a new blog by IMF.
Conflict deaths are higher than they have ever been this century according to the 17th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI). The new GPI published in June 2023 revealed that over 238,000 people were killed in conflicts in 2022.
Most respondents to a survey continue to see the Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation (ARPC) as a trusted expert on terrorism reinsurance (86%), easy to deal with (86%) and transparent (85%).
2022 saw the first global hardening of the Terrorism & Political Violence market in over 15 years, says Mr James Borrie, global head of Broking-Terrorism & Political Violence Practice, at WTW.
Companies may face 'heightened' and growing risk of political violence and civil protests driving losses through damage to buildings or business disruption according to a new report by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS).
Australia's terrorism reinsurance pool, administered by Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation (ARPC), purchased its retrocession programme for the 2023 calendar year at the same terms and conditions as the previous 2022 programme.
The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has announced that a requirement for capital to be set aside for catastrophe risks related to terrorist attacks, infectious diseases and credit guarantees, will be postponed to the end of 2024.
Globally 100m people were forced to flee their homes in 2021 due to violence, human rights abuses, food insecurity, the climate crisis, war in Ukraine and other emergencies according to a new UN report.