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Civilian-Military Coordination in Humanitarian Response: Expanding the Evidence Base

Project Dates: March 2018 - Dec 2020

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Report: Civilian-Military Coordination in Humanitarian Response: Expanding the … Journal Article: Civilian perception of the role of the military in Nigeria’s 2014 Ebola outbreak and health-related responses in the North East region

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2018 Civilian-Military Humanitarian Response Workshop - Working Group Summary R… 2017 Civilian-Military Humanitarian Response Workshop - Working Group Summary Report

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Civil-Military Humanitarian Response: How to Work Better Together - Sarah C. Ba… Military and civilian experts partner at Brown to improve humanitarian response - News from Brown New Research Exposes Long-Standing Challenges to Civilian-military Coordination in Humanitarian Crises - Nancy Kirsch

Project Leads: Adam Levine, Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, Brown University; David Pollaty, Director, Humanitarian Response Program, Naval War College

This collaborative project between Brown University’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies (CHRHS) and the U.S. Naval War College’s Humanitarian Response Program (HRP), supported by a two-year grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, seeks to expand the evidence-base for effective civilian-military coordination in humanitarian response while developing new avenues for information sharing between humanitarian, military, and academic communities. Most importantly, it will leverage these new networks and expanded knowledge-base to inform the development of new military doctrine and UN guidelines around civil-military coordination in the humanitarian space.

This project builds off of a substantive amount of preliminary work that has occurred over the past three years. In October 2016, the U.S. Naval War College’s HRP hosted the first civilian-military humanitarian response workshop, bringing together over 70 academic, military, UN and humanitarian NGO staff from around the world. This inaugural workshop laid the groundwork for effective communication between civilian and military disaster response communities through a series of working groups and panels focused on key challenges in coordination during humanitarian response. In August 2017 and 2018, follow-up workshops hosted at Brown University by HRP and the Humanitarian Innovation Initiative brought together over 100 selected participants to continue highlighting key opportunities for professional education, rseearch, and trainings as well as identifying best practices associated with overcoming cultural, policy, technical, and legal challenges for coordination and information exchange.

Stemming from identified research priorities during the workshops, this Carnegie grant funded research will explore four core research projects designed to advance civilian-military coordination, where appropriate, in humanitarian response.

  1. Surmounting Contemporary Challenges to Humanitarian-Military Relations
  2. The Responsibility of States Indirectly Involved in an Armed Conflict to Provide Medical Care: A Contemporary Challenge for the Classification of Armed Conflicts
  3. Community Perceptions of Military Involvement in Pandemic Response in the North East Region of Nigeria: Implications for Civil-Military Relations
  4. Humanitarian Civil-Military Information Sharing in Complex Emergencies: Realities, Strategies and Risks

The results of these research studies will be presented at a research symposium for review and contextualization, and then disseminated through academic and policy channels, with the eventual goal of impacting US and foreign military guidance on civilian-military coordination in humanitarian response, as well as United Nations and international NGO guidelines. 

Publications

Report: Civilian-Military Coordination in Humanitarian Response: Expanding the … Journal Article: Civilian perception of the role of the military in Nigeria’s 2014 Ebola outbreak and health-related responses in the North East region

Workshop Summary Reports

2018 Civilian-Military Humanitarian Response Workshop - Working Group Summary R… 2017 Civilian-Military Humanitarian Response Workshop - Working Group Summary Report

News

Civil-Military Humanitarian Response: How to Work Better Together - Sarah C. Ba… Military and civilian experts partner at Brown to improve humanitarian response - News from Brown New Research Exposes Long-Standing Challenges to Civilian-military Coordination in Humanitarian Crises - Nancy Kirsch
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