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Getting Better at Civil-Military Interaction

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Effective Civil-Military Interaction in Peace Operations

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Today’s complex emergencies demand that interrelated political, economic and developmental as well as security problems be addressed simultaneously (De Coning and Friis 2011; Rietjens and Bollen 2008). As a consequence, international efforts increasingly focus on integrating approaches of military and civilian actors, including government agencies as well as non-state actors such as Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and International Organizations (IOs). Mission effectiveness depends on combining military expertise on security with civilian expertise on governance, human rights, rule of law and economic development. To realize this, civil-military interaction is of crucial importance.

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    At the height of operations in Iraq there were an estimated 190,000 employees of PMFs working for the American Ministry of Defence alone (Heinecken 2013).

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  1. Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda, The Netherlands

    Sebastiaan Rietjens

  2. Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Gerard Lucius

  3. 1 (NL) Civil and Military Interaction Command, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

    Gerard Lucius

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    Gerard Lucius

  2. Netherlands Defense Academy, Breda, The Netherlands

    Sebastiaan Rietjens

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Rietjens, S., Lucius, G. (2016). Getting Better at Civil-Military Interaction. In: Lucius, G., Rietjens, S. (eds) Effective Civil-Military Interaction in Peace Operations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26806-4_1

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