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The Danish take on the comprehensive/integrated approach after Iraq and Afghanistan. Peter Viggo Jakobsen Institute for Strategy Ifs-71@fak.dk DCCE Visit 10 December 2013. New strategy paper Sept 2013. New definition. Integrated approach:
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The Danish take on the comprehensive/integrated approach after Iraq and Afghanistan Peter Viggo Jakobsen Institute for Strategy Ifs-71@fak.dk DCCE Visit 10 December 2013
New definition Integrated approach: all authorities or parts of an organisation (e.g. the UN) involved in a given stabilisation effort work together towards a commonly defined stabilisation goal. This encompasses collaboration on planning, implementation, and lesson learning regarding political, development, and security-related efforts. An integrated stabilisation effort may take place before, during, and after a conflict. Integrated stabilisation efforts may well be applied without any military element.1
Changes codified in the new paper • UN > NATO terminology (= UK) • Humanitarian assistance no longer seen as part of the integrated approach • Respect for ”humanitarianspace” shouldfacilitate future cooperation with humanitarian organisations • New institutionalstructure to support the mainstreaming of the integrated approach
Whole-of-Government Structure • Stabilisation Committee: deputy permanent secretaries from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, the Prime Minister’s Office, and the Ministry of Justice • Stabilisation Secretariat to support the committee • Task forces dealing with specific issues • Danish Peace and Stabilisation Fund (930 million DKK 2010-14) • Danish Peace and Stabilisation Response (civilian rapid reaction rosters)
Future policy • Greaterfocus on the strategiclevelreflecting the problems experienced at the tacticallevel in Iraq and Afghanistan • Political ambition to prioritizeconflictprevention • HOWEVER! • Definition of stabilisation so broad as to includevirtuallyeverything • Libya air campaign = stabilization Actual policy willbedetermined by international/allieddemand
Remaining challenges • Danish system remainsessentiallystovepiped • Stabilizationcommittee not a decision making organ; coordination and discussion forum • Joint civil-militarytrainingverylimitedabove the tacticallevel • Lessonslearning, monitoring and evaluationremainstove-piped; hardlyanyinterministerialactivityhere