What is Frontline Voices?
*Frontline Voices* is a podcast about human security and the forces that shape people’s lives, communities and futures. Hosted by Rosie Stone, a human security adviser with experience in defence and security and a wider link to humanitarian and international environments, the podcast brings together practitioners, researchers, academics and specialists working across defence, humanitarian assistance, international development and related fields. Each episode looks beyond traditional ideas of security. Conflict rarely begins with a single event, and insecurity is rarely caused by one issue alone. Climate change, water, food, health, livelihoods, migration, gender, culture, governance and community resilience are often closely connected. *Frontline Voices* explores those connections through thoughtful and accessible conversations with people who understand them through their work, research and lived experience. The podcast asks what happens before a crisis becomes visible. What pressures are building beneath the surface? Who is affected? Who is included in the decisions being made? And what could be done earlier to prevent insecurity from becoming conflict? Some episodes examine the changing role of defence and security organisations. Others look at humanitarian action, environmental security, displacement, information, communities and the ways in which decisions made in one part of the world can have consequences somewhere else. There is also a strong focus on inclusion. Human security is about people, and good policy depends on understanding the different experiences of women, men, young people, older people and the communities most affected by insecurity. These can be complicated subjects, but *Frontline Voices* is not intended to sound like an academic lecture or policy conference. Rosie’s aim is to make important ideas easier to understand without removing their complexity or nuance. The podcast is for practitioners, researchers, students and policymakers, but also for anyone who is curious about how security is changing and why issues such as climate, resources, livelihoods and social stability increasingly belong in the same conversation. At its heart, *Frontline Voices* asks a simple question: **How can we understand insecurity earlier, listen more carefully to those affected by it, and make better decisions before a crisis becomes a conflict?**