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S: ICRC – https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/un-report-threats-challenges-and-change (last access: 4 July 2024); UN – https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/repertoire/actions (last access: 4 July 2024).

N: 1. Old English þreat “crowd, troop,” also “oppression, coercion, menace,” related to þreotan “to trouble, weary,” from Proto-Germanic *thrautam (cognates: Dutch verdreiten, German verdrießen “to vex”), from PIE *treud- “to push, press squeeze” (cognates: Latin trudere “to press, thrust,” Old Church Slavonic trudu “oppression,” Middle Irish trott “quarrel, conflict,” Middle Welsh cythrud “torture, torment, afflict”). Sense of “conditional declaration of hostile intention” was in Old English.

2. Risks and Threats (Security); Occupational Health and Safety; Protection of Property: threat.

• Any potential event or act, deliberate or accidental, that could cause injury to employees or assets.

3. Risks and Threats (Security); General Conduct of Military Operations: threat.

• A person or entity with the capability or intent to cause an adverse effect.
• threat: term officially approved by the Air Force Terminology Panel (Trenton); term and definition officially approved by the Joint Terminology Panel (Canada).

S: Etymonline – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=threat&searchmode=none (last access: 5 September 2014). 2 & 3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=threat&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 4 July 2024).

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CR: ill-treatment, violence, vulnerability.