Managing Civil-Military Cooperation A 24/7 Joint Effort for Stability

Civil-military cooperation has always been a key factor in both peace and conflict situations, and is vital in today's political climate. This indispensable volume analyzes the various types of civil-military cooperation across different settings and contexts, to include humanitarian operations such as emergency relief following tsunami, earthquakes and refugee crises, as well as stability and reconstruction operations such as those in Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The book contains contributions from both senior academics and practitioners such as military officers and humanitarian personnel and discusses the benefits and logistics of civil-military cooperation. It closes with recommendations that will be of value to both academics and practitioners, making it a must read for anyone interested or involved in these operations.

Contents: Foreword; Part 1: Introduction and External Orientation: Introduction to approaching civil-military cooperation, Myriame Bollen and Bas Rietjens; The historical origins of civil-military cooperation, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg; Civil-military cooperation from a 3D perspective, Jet van der Gaag-Halbertsma, Hugo de Vries and Bart Hogeveen. Part 2 Civil-Military Cooperation During Humanitarian Missions: Refugees in Albania: a case of civil-military cooperation, Myriame Bollen; Tsunami response in Sri Lanka: civil-military cooperation in a conflictuous context, Georg Frerks; Shaky grounds: civil-military response to the Pakistani earthquake, Johan de Graaf; Providing relief: the case of the Dutch engineers in Kosovo, Bas Rietjens. Part 3 Civil-Military Cooperation During Stabilization and Reconstruction Missions: Understanding and guiding reconstruction processes, Dorothea Hilhorst; Between expectations and reality in the DRC: opportunities for Cimic, Anthonie Th. Polet; Pride and prejudice: an Afghan and Liberian case study. Bart Klem and Stefan van Laar; Enhancing the Afghan footprint: civil-military cooperation and local participation, Masood Khalil, Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi, Bas Rietjens, and Myriame Bollen. Part 4 Performance Measurement of Civil-Military Cooperation: Assessing civil-military performance: towards a research agenda, Robert Beeres and Paul C. van Fenema; International policing missions: a framework for effective civil-military cooperation, Michiel de Weger; Performing in Kabul: explaining civil-military cooperation in stabilization and reconstruction missions, Bas Rietjens; Viability of civil-military cooperation during Operation Allied Harbour, Myriame Bollen and Robert Beeres; Trends, dilemmas and future research on civil-military cooperation, Bas Rietjens and Myriame Bollen; Index.

Sebastiaan J.H. Rietjens and Myriame T.I.B. Bollen are both based at the Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands.