On 10 April, the Executive Director of the Australian Civil-Military Centre (ACMC), Dr Alan Ryan, ...
On 12 April Australian Civil-Military Centre Executive Director, Dr Alan Ryan spoke to the Monash University Masters Program in International Crisis Management on the topic ‘Civil-Military Engagement in the Field’. The Master of International Crisis Management aims to develop the required knowledge, skills and competencies for responding to complex emergencies and post-crisis management. Crises created [...]
2013 is proving to be an extremely busy year for the ACMC. A number of pieces of work are coming to fruition and are providing the basis for the way ahead. Research into the implications of political, social, economic and technological change on peace operations and the consequences for whole-of-government policy, capability development and operating [...]
Alan Ryan, Executive Director of the Australian Civil-Military Centre, will be presenting to the Annual Civil Society Dialogue on Women, Peace and Security on 15 April 2013, at the Australian National University (ANU). The Annual Civil Society Dialogue on Women, Peace and Security is a civil-military event, bringing together major stakeholders in implementing and advancing [...]
From 21-28 February 2013, staff from the Australian Civil-Military Centre (ACMC) visited the Australian Embassy in Indonesia in support of an AusAID-led program to provide annual training for the Embassy’s Emergency Response Team (ERT). AusAID’s representative at the ACMC, Boni Maywald, updated Embassy team members on the civil-military challenges they would likely experience in responding [...]
The Australian Civil-Military Centre (ACMC) recently hosted a visit from the Norwegian Ambassador to Australia and representatives from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). The Norwegian Ambassador to Australia, H.E. Mrs Siren Gjerme Eriksen led the delegation, accompanied by Ms Mona Juul, Director-General for Security Policy and the High North, MFA; Mr Atle Konta [...]
The Australian Civil-Military Centre finishes 2012 having come a long way in a year. For one thing we started the year with a different name. The new name reflects our strong stakeholder focus and desire to engage with the region and the world as a specifically Australian entity, but one that cooperates with international counterparts [...]
The 8th International Lessons Learned Conference (ILLC), which was held in Sydney, Australia, from 3-6 December 2012, brought together nearly 250 participants from 24 countries to share operational lessons and to discuss how they can drive change. The 2012 event had a diverse and broad program comprising papers and presentations delivered by military, police, civilian [...]
In September this year, Australian Civil-Military Centre’s Chief of Staff Lily Mulholland and Civil-Military Projects Manager Amy Sheridan travelled to Helsinki, Finland, to participate in the 18th Annual International Association of Peacekeeping Training Centres Conference (IAPTC). The IAPTC is a voluntary association of training centres and other organisations dealing with peace operations research, education, and training. This [...]
The Australian Civil-Military Centre has recently completed a pilot Visiting Fellow program, with an officer from the Indonesian military (TNI) seconded to the Centre for four months. During his time at the Centre, Colonel Achmad Adipati Karnawidjaja, Director of International Cooperation and Information at the Indonesian Peacekeeping Centre in Sentul, conducted a research project that [...]
As the opening ceremony of the 8th International Lessons Learned Conference draws near, it is time to start thinking about how the international lessons learned community will continue to develop. The conference series, now in its eighth iteration, has proven very popular, with registrations growing in previous years and this year outstripping expectations. With a [...]
