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The concept of civil-military cooperation (CIMIC) is a relatively new input into contemporary peacekeeping operations. Introduced in the early 2000s, it still receives a vast amount of criticism, both from theorists and practitioners. The objective of this analysis is to present selected critical arguments against the concept and comment on them in regards to the contemporary perspective. The analysis mainly focuses on NATO’s concept of CIMIC, though some of the presented arguments can be applied to respective concepts of other organisations.
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History teaches that complex peace support operations should pursue a comprehensive political objective. They require a combination of police, administrative, economic and military measures and therefore demand intensive civil–military co-operation on all levels of operation. In this sense, peace support operations are very similar to counter-insurgency campaigns. However, current NATO doctrine for Civil–Military Cooperation (CIMIC) as it emerged from the 1990s is founded in conventional war-fighting and outdated peacekeeping doctrine. CIMIC’s focus is on supporting military objectives rather than enabling the military to make a coherent contribution to political objectives. This makes CIMIC unfit for the Alliance’s main operational challenges that have expanded from peace operations on the Balkans to countering insurgents in Southern Afghanistan.
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Managing Civil-Military Cooperation A 24/7 Joint Effort for Stability
Chapter 2: The Historical Origins of Civil-Military Cooperation2008 •
History teaches that complex peace support operations should pursue a comprehensive political objective. They require a combination of police, administrative, economic and military measures and therefore demand intensive civil–military co-operation on all levels of operation. In this sense, peace support operations are very similar to counter-insurgency campaigns. However, current NATO doctrine for Civil–Military Cooperation (CIMIC) as it emerged from the 1990s is founded in conventional war-fighting and outdated peacekeeping doctrine. CIMIC’s focus is on supporting military objectives rather than enabling the military to make a coherent contribution to political objectives. This makes CIMIC unfit for the Alliance’s main operational challenges that have expanded from peace operations on the Balkans to countering insurgents in Southern Afghanistan. An earlier version of this article was published in the journal Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 17, No. 4 (December 2006).
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The report examines the emergence and development of CIMIC. It analyses the reasons for its emergence, and states guidelines in its development. This will contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between civil environment and military forces in the face of civil-military cooperation.
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This paper discusses obstacles to civil-military cooperation in the context of multinational and interagency operations, with a special focus on assessment functions and processes. As such, the paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing process of developing a framework for assessment of operations within the context of MNE5. The rationale behind this study is to strengthen the basis for and the effectiveness of Effects-Based Assessment (EBA) of performances, effects, and end-states in multinational and interagency operations. The first section starts by identifying a set of key overall challenges to such cooperation, namely civilian and military actors’ often lack of knowledge of one another’s organizational identities, security concerns, and working procedures. The paper then discusses one of these categories, namely working procedures, in more detail, identifying in the second section the challenge of divergent operational terminologies, and in the third section the challenge of overcoming the information sharing gap when in the presence of similar assessment practices. The main suggestion of this paper is that knowledge about civilian and military operational terminologies and assessment practices is an imperative for successful civil-military cooperation in multinational and interagency operations. Such knowledge, we argue, is best obtained if both military and civilian actors respectively open their communication channels with the purpose of sharing information and operational experiences. Furthermore, based on the discussion, the paper raises a number of points which the authors believe would be valuable topics for further developing civil-military cooperation within the context of multinational and interagency operations.
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