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The Danish take on the comprehensive/integrated approach after Iraq and Afghanistan

This strategy paper from 2013 by Peter Viggo Jakobsen offers insights into the Danish approach to integrated stabilisation efforts, detailing changes, future policies, and challenges faced. Emphasizing collaboration and coordination, the paper highlights the need for a holistic approach involving political, development, and security efforts.

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The Danish take on the comprehensive/integrated approach after Iraq and Afghanistan

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  1. 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

  2. New strategy paper Sept 2013

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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)

  6. 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

  7. 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

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