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The Australian Civil-Military Centre – There’s a lot in a name
The Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence has been officially renamed the Australian Civil-Military Centre. The new name, announced today by Parliamentary Secretary for Defence, the Hon Dr Mike Kelly AM, MP was chosen to reflect more accurately Australia’s focus on civil-military issues that impact upon responses to conflict and disaster management in countries both in [...]
Civil-Military Interaction Workshop 2012
The Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence will hold its annual Civil-Military Interaction Workshop (CMIW) from 4-9 March 2012. The workshop is the primary course run by the Centre and is designed to increase understanding of the factors that influence successful civil-military-police interactions in conflict and disaster overseas. Held at the Australian Emergency Management Institute (AEMI), Mount [...]
Civil-Military Centre leadership changes hands
The Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence last month said farewell to its founding Executive Director Michael (Mike) Smith AO, who has officially retired from the Centre. Mike has had a long and distinguished career in both the military and the government and non-government sectors. Mike served as an Officer in the Australian Army for [...]
Building tomorrow’s civil-military capabilities – CMIS wraps up for another year
The Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence held its annual Civil-Military Interaction Seminar (CMIS) in Sydney, 7-10 November 2011. With beautiful Sydney Harbour and its iconic bridge as a backdrop, participants representing 21 countries, the United Nations and the African Union were treated to presentations and case studies from a range of Australian and international [...]
Post-graduate courses a key part of the Centre’s Civil-Military education program
At a time when both governments and non-state actors are calling for greater coordination between organisations in preparing for or responding to conflict and natural disaster, the Centre is supporting the development of Australia’s civil-military capabilities through several separate but linked activities. Besides the Centre’s practitioner-focused training courses and publications program, we also run university-based [...]
Australia co-hosts peacekeeping operations international workshop
The Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence, along with the Malaysian Institute of Strategic Studies (ISIS), the New York based International Peace Institute and the Canadian based Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC), recently co-hosted the East Asian Contributing to UN Peacekeeping: Military, Police and Civilian Workshop in Kuala Lumpur, 17-18 October. The workshop was in support [...]
Peace and stabilisation project
One of the Centre’s biggest programs this year is the Multiagency Peace and Stabilisation Operations Project (MAPSOP). The MAPSOP team has conducted eight national and three international events since December 2010, each one designed to enhance Australia’s civil-military capabilities for conducting peace and stabilisation operations and to strengthen national and international civil-military relationships. The national [...]
Thailand tabletop exercise tests ASEAN response to disaster management
The Centre recently provided expert support to a disaster management table top exercise (TTX) in Bangkok, co-hosted by the Governments of Thailand and Vietnam from 7-9 September 2011. The exercise was the third in a series of ASEAN Member State workshops on cooperation between defence establishments and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in non-traditional security. The [...]
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