Providing Humanitarian Space

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Providing Humanitarian Space
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ASIA PACIFIC ENHANCED PEACE OPERATIONS PROGRAM
SEMINAR
Security in the Mission Area Providing the
Humanitarian Space
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 22-26 August 2005

• Co-Sponsored by
• The Armed Forces of Malaysia
• The United Nations United States Pacific
  Command
• Executed by the Center of Excellence (COE)

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CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

• Center A congressionally mandated
  organization
• funded by separate appropriations
• supports Pacific Command initiatives

Name A legal term focused on a single
area of expertise cutting across
multiple functional organizations

• MandateTo improve civil military relations in
• Peace Operations
• Humanitarian Assistance
• Disaster Response

• Tools Mission is achieved through
• Education
• Training
• Research

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ROLES CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

• Education training of leadership including
  promotional aspects
• Educate and train operational managers
  national/regional trainers
• Assist in the conduct of multi-national,
  multi-dimensional exercises, in particular
  leadership exercises
• Gaming Support
• Analysis of education/training issues
• Readiness
• Measures of success
• Lessons learned
• Develop and publish education training related
  material

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ASIA PACIFIC ENHANCED PEACE OPERATIONS PROGRAM

• An engagement program for Asia Pacific nations
• Based on improving understanding and capacity in
  peace operations
• The Center of Excellence conducted sixteen major
  events on behalf of Pacific Command in the period
  2000 2004

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ASIA PACIFIC ENHANCED PEACE OPERATIONS PROGRAM (co
ntinued)

• Program events continue to provide a useful forum
  for the examination of peace operations at the
  strategic / operational level
• Participation includes 28 regional and other
  nations
• Governmental, international organizations and NGO
  involvement
• Full range of issues have been explored
• Reports are on the COE website
  http//coe-dmha.org

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SEMINAR OVERVIEW
Security in the Mission Area Providing the
Humanitarian Space

• Administrative remarks
• Introduction of staff
• Purpose objectives
• Concept methodology
• Overview
• Overall concept structure
• Responsibilities products
• Introduction of participants

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ADMINISTRATIVE REMARKS

• Host Nation
• US Embassy
• Center of Excellence Randy Stansfield

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INTRODUCTION OF STAFF

• Seminar Moderator United States John
  Otte
• Subject Matter Experts
• General Officer/DPKO --------- ------------------
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• Humanitarian NGOs
• UN
• CivPol Canada Chief Superintendent
  (retd) Mike ORielly
• Game Move Facilitators
• John Otte United States
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• BGen(retd) Dato Jamal Hisne Ismail
  Malaysia
• Col Alex Lee Seck Weng Singapore

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PURPOSE
Capacity Building in All Nations of Asia-Pacific
Region

• Share Information Exchange Experiences

Security in the Mission Area Providing the
Humanitarian Space
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GENERAL SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

• Create an environment conducive to an effective
  exchange of information
• Examine in detail the civil-military dynamics of
  todays security challenges in a high-risk
  environment of creating the required humanitarian
  operational space during UN missions

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SPECIFIC SEMINAR
OBJECTIVES

• Understand humanitarian space and who is
  responsible for it
• Explore inadequate humanitarian space -
  identify root causes
• Develop appreciation of complex civil-military
  interface issues involved
• Consider conventional military means
  traditional humanitarian-military gap
• Examine need for asset/structural changes within
  the military
• Examine how to gain required intelligence to deal
  with root causes
• Examine the roles CIVPOL assets could play
• Examine the impact of private security firms
• Examine necessity of a military/civilian paradigm
  shift
• Enhance national/regional understanding of the
  humanitarian space challenge
  military-civilian coordination/cooperation
  required

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OVERALL CONCEPT

• Representation primarily military involved with
  training education in preparation for UN peace
  support operations
• 4 1/2 days - presentations group discussions
  seminar
• UN peace operations setting
• Participants explore national/regional
  education/training issues related to
  national/regional centers
• Methodology
• Scene-setting Subject Matter Expert (SME)
  presentations
• Requirements presented in plenary
• Facilitated working groups discuss issues
  develop responses
• Briefs are presented in plenary
• SMEs senior leadership comment
• Critique wrap up session to conclude the
  seminar

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SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS
Experienced individuals with specific knowledge
provided to assist in the education process in
this Seminar

• Asia Pacific national representatives
• Representatives of other regions nations
• DPKO UN HQ

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PRINCIPLE TOPICS

• Root Causes and Responsibilities
• Planning Executing Humanitarian Space
  Operations
• Private Security Firms, Intelligence Innovative
  Military Approaches

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SCENE-SETTING PRESENTATIONS

• Military Roles
• Command, Control, Cooperation Coordination
• CivPol Roles
• NGO perspective Humanitarian Space
• UN perspective Humanitarian Space
• Current Situation in Terpan

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AGENDA
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SEMINARSTRUCTURE METHODOLOGY
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SEMINAR PRODUCTS

• Event report to co-sponsors (Armed Forces of the
  Philippines, UN DPKO, USPACOM, and all attendees
• Development of recommendations for follow-on
  events
• Follow-on plan seminar - game program developed
  to address issues identified

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QUESTIONS ?
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Humanitarian Space
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PARTCIPANT INTRODUCTIONS
Security in the Mission Area Providing the
Humanitarian Space