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Quick Impact Workshop – Outcomes Early considerations on civil-military responses to emerging diseases - Ebola as a case study

Quick Impact Workshop – Outcomes Early considerations on civil-military responses to emerging diseases - Ebola as a case study

In August 2014, the United Nations (UN) Security Council declared the Ebola virus outbreak in the West African subregion a ‘threat to international peace and security’. The UN’s request for assistance from member states resulted in the mobilisation of technical expertise, medical capacity, humanitarian assistance, and military and civil defence assets.
Fostering coordination between civil-military-police officials

Fostering coordination between civil-military-police officials

Public servants from the Australian and New Zealand governments, and civil society personnel attended the two-day Civil-Military-Police Interaction Workshop (CMPIW) in Canberra on 18 and 19 June. The aim of the CMPIW was to build capacity and knowledge among mid-career professionals by exposing delegates to a range of tools, exercises and case studies on civil-military-police coordination.