Acheiving Joint Rapid Response
Venue: TBA
Event Date/Time: Oct 17, 2006 | End Date/Time: Oct 18, 2006 |
Description
DISCUSSION TOPICS INCLUDE
- Accelerating rapid reaction deployment in a joint environment
- Improving multinational co-operability
- Achieving improved situational awareness
- Enhancing multi-national strategic lift capabilities
- Developing capabilities to rapidly react during stabilization and reconstruction missions
- Joint international security and peacekeeping efforts
- Lessons learned: peacekeeping mission: Bosnia / Afghanistan
- Joint civil-military exercise
- Additional discussion topics and relevant interactive workshops will complete the
programme
FORUM BENEFITS
- Assessing capabilities of and requirements from military, civil and crisis management organizations in rapid response operations
- Identifying innovative technologies and techniques geared at enhancing force
multinational and inter-agency force response and protection
- Gaining insight in preparing joint teams for critical incident response and crisis
management
- Examining the challenges for Command & Control in multi-agency response efforts
- Understanding the difficulties of interoperability between military and civil actions
throughout joint missions
FEATURED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Lieutenant General Randhir Kumar Mehta - Military Advisor United Nations Peacekeeping Department.
Major General Gian Marco Chiarini - (Italian Army) Commander, EUFOR
Colonel Ralph Thiele - Commander, Bundeswehr Centre for Transformation, German Armed Forces (invited)
Colonel Wouter Sleurink - Leader, Allied Command Transformation's Expeditionary Operations Integrated Capability Team, NATO
Chief Superintendent Kevin Hurley - City of London Police, Former Senior Police Advisor – Iraq
Günter Bretschneider - Head of Section, NATO Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center EADRCC
Declan Greenway - Senior Security Coordinator, Organization for Security and Coordination in Europe (OSCE)
Captain (N) Gunnar Borch - Royal Norwegian Navy, Director, Sealift Co-ordination Center, The Netherlands
James H. Bergeron - Political Advisor, Naval Striking and Support Forces, NATO
Commander (Ret) Stephen Benson - Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Lena Larsson - Training & Project Leader, Folke Bernadotte Academy, Sweden
Colonel Bert Kuijpers - Chief CIMIC Branch, Kabul (October 2006) Director of the Civil-Military Cooperation Centre Former chief CIMIC Branch, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
Colonel Gintautas Zenkevicius - Lithuanian Armed Forces
Simon Peter Brooks - International Committee of the Red Cross, Delegate responsible for relations with the Armed Forces of Western Europe
CHAIRED BY: Dr. Andrew Dorman - Senior Lecturer (Defence Studies)—Kings College London, Senior Research Fellow—Centre for Defence Studies, Deputy Editor-World Defence Systems