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3 Overcoming Challenges to Sharing Information
3 Overcoming Challenges to Sharing Information
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They have created guidelines that enable cooperation while protecting groups' independence and security.1 They have instituted processes that enable cooperative planning while maintaining executional autonomy. And they have established agile and bottom-up forums that build the trust necessary for peacebuilding.
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It includes universities, religious organizations, media, professional associations, trade unions, traditional and tribal organizations, and many other entities that seek to improve quality of life. All of these institutions hold government to account, said Schirch.
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"It's a good month if I don't lose a colleague in Afghanistan or Pakistan." Furthermore, attacks against NGO personnel and other representatives of civil society are increasing, she said, moderated in the last few years only by a withdrawal of NGO personnel from these areas.2 What in part is driving these attacks on aid workers, Schirch explained, is a shift by military actors and governments to using development activities as a means of enhancing security and stability following a conflict. Realizing short-term security objectives, however, has an unintended consequence of politicizing the activities of the civil society organizations partnering in development.
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They are willing to provide insights into local dynamics that either help or hinder the protection of human security, but they do not want to be involved in implementing a counterinsurgency strategy. In general, the goal of civil society organizations is to protect human security, whereas the goal of government agencies and the military is to advance national security interests.
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CIVILIAN-MILITARY GUIDELINES FOR SHARING PROJECT INFORMATION Marcia Hartwell, Visiting Scholar at USIP, drew on her experiences in Iraq to address the development of civilian-military guidelines for sharing project information. Information sharing is a hot-button topic for everyone and one of the most sensitive topics in a conflict area, she said.
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Sustainability for the military is often short term, whereas NGOs tend to look at issues in a more open and extended context. Hartwell advocated the establishment of a civilian-military data-sharing working group with several goals: · View data sharing as a long-term process of building trust between civilian and military organizations.
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As an example, he cited social media exchanges between a hospital, an ambulance, and an NGO about an event involving injuries. Use of this easily accessible nonclassified information may undermine trust if the information appears to have come from sensitive sources.
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The lack of such training has been "a real vulnerability in almost all of the strategic and operational initiatives that the US government has tried to implement." Michael Shipler, Asia director for Search for Common Ground, noted that innovation often emerges from the interaction of groups of people who work on very different things and have very different frames of reference and worldviews. Peacebuilders are searching for transformative innovations that can magnify their influence, which requires interactions encompassing groups that range from the field and operational level to the policy level.
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In particular, the law against providing material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, even if the intention is to support a group's humanitarian efforts, has very serious implications for organizations like Catholic Relief Services. Such organizations want to bring people back into civil society so that they can choose nonviolent means to resolve their conflicts.
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One way to avoid such situations is to establish protocols for ongoing information gathering and dissemination that everyone understands so that knowledge of procedures and findings extends beyond current personnel. Finally, Roman emphasized that NGOs and the military may have different missions, but that NGO personnel are "great American heroes" to the military.
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