The Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence held its annual Civil-Military Interaction Seminar (CMIS) in ...
The Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence will hold its annual Civil-Military Interaction Workshop (CMIW) from 4-9 March 2012. The workshop is the primary course run by the Centre and is designed to increase understanding of the factors that influence successful civil-military-police interactions in conflict and disaster overseas. Held at the Australian Emergency Management Institute (AEMI), Mount [...]
The Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence last month said farewell to a man with enormous energy and vision, its founding Executive Director Michael (Mike) Smith AO, who has officially retired from the Centre. Mike has had a long and distinguished career in both the military and the government and non-government sectors. Mike served as [...]
NATO’s Operation in Libya Officially Ends United Nations Security Council, Resolution 2016 (2011), 27 October 2011 The United Nations Security Council has officially ended NATO’s protection of civilians mandate in Libya, following the death of Muammar Gaddafi, through a unanimous adoption of Resolution 2016. The Council urged Libyan authorities to ‘promote and protect human rights and [...]
At a time when both governments and non-state actors are calling for greater coordination between organisations in preparing for or responding to conflict and natural disaster, the Centre is supporting the development of Australia’s civil-military capabilities through several separate but linked activities. Besides the Centre’s practitioner-focused training courses and publications program, we also run university-based [...]
The Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence, along with the Malaysian Institute of Strategic Studies (ISIS), the New York based International Peace Institute and the Canadian based Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC), recently co-hosted the East Asian Contributing to UN Peacekeeping: Military, Police and Civilian Workshop in Kuala Lumpur, 17-18 October. The workshop was in support [...]
One of the Centre’s biggest programs this year is the Multiagency Peace and Stabilisation Operations Project (MAPSOP). The MAPSOP team has conducted eight national and three international events since December 2010, each one designed to enhance Australia’s civil-military capabilities for conducting peace and stabilisation operations and to strengthen national and international civil-military relationships. The national [...]
Representatives from Australia, Africa, the Middle East and across Europe gathered for six days from 11-17 September 2011 on the island of Sandö, approximately 400km north of Stockholm for the Folke Bernadotte Academy‘s Field Strategies for Protection of Civilians Course in Sweden. The course focused on developing personal skills and tools so that protection strategies [...]
The Centre recently provided expert support to a disaster management table top exercise (TTX) in Bangkok, co-hosted by the Governments of Thailand and Vietnam from 7-9 September 2011. The exercise was the third in a series of ASEAN Member State workshops on cooperation between defence establishments and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in non-traditional security. The [...]
The Centre has released the first draft of its Civil-Military Common Language Guide for comment. The Guide is designed to promote a common understanding among Australia’s key responders to international disasters and conflicts, by building a common understanding of terminology across police, military, government and non-government practitioners. It seeks to clarify commonly used civil-military terms, [...]
The Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence partnered with the US Center for Complex Operations (CCO) in Washington, DC in September to deliver an international conference at the United States National Defense University (NDU). The conference, titled ‘Building Security Capacity’, was a key activity within the international stream of the Centre’s Multiagency Peace & Stabilisation [...]
